10 October 2005
The Baby Café – Hawke’s Bay: moved to The Cottage, HB Hospital
The Baby Café, a free drop-in centre where new parents can get free expert breast-feeding advice has outgrown its
current premises in Warwick Road Hastings. They’ve moved to The Cottage at the corner of Omahu and Canning Roads,
Hastings – on the Hawke’s Bay Hospital campus.
To coincide with the move, The Baby Café has introduced new extended hours. It’s now open Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays from 11:00am – 1:00pm. Parents are welcome to call in with their baby and toddlers, and receive free expert
breastfeeding advice from the District Health Board’s lactation consultants, in a family-friendly supportive
environment.
The Baby Café – Hawke’s Bay, opened in Hastings last year and can help and support mothers through the challenges of
breast-feeding…from pregnancy to weaning. Their free drop-in service allows mothers to visit as often as needed during
this time. The Hastings Baby Café was the first Baby Café to be established outside the United Kingdom.
Katie Askew said the Baby Café service team were very appreciative of the support provided by HBDHB in enabling the Baby
Café to make use of The Cottage. “We hope the new location and times will further increase the number of clients using
the service. This new location is just down the road from the Napier-Hastings expressway, so we are hopeful more Napier
mums will make use of the free service.
“With us being on the hospital grounds, there’s also opportunity for new mums to walk across and check us out before
they leave hospital,” Katie Askew said.
ENDS