Help and support
Antenatal Screening & Results Support
Baby equipment & clothes (pre-loved/low cost/free/donate)
- Auntie Pam’s (Kirklees) 01924 438316/01484 414775 Auntie Pam's Kirklees | Facebook
- Rainbow Baby Bank Facebook info@rainbowbabybank.org.uk
- Mothershare (Calderdale) 01422 763998 Mothershare | Facebook
- Little Stars-Overgate Charity Shops, Brighouse, Elland, Sowerby Bridge. Our Charity Shops - Overgate Hospice
Breastfeeding Support
- Calderdale Breastfeeding Peer Support
- Infant Feeding Midwife 01484 344345 (Mon -Fri 9-5) calls are returned asap. Please leave your name, contact number and a brief description of concern.
- Health Visitor Calderdale 0300 3045076
- Healthy Visitor Kirklees 0300 304 5555
- Auntie Pam’s (Kirklees) 01924 438316/01484 414775
- National Breastfeeding Help line 03001000212
- Start4life
- Best Beginnings
- NHS Feeding Advice
Contraception
- Calderdale & Huddersfield 01422 261370 (Mon-Fri 9am-1pm) Contact us: Sexual Health CHT
Coping with a crying baby
Children’s Centres
Domestic Abuse Support
- Kirklees Women’s Centre Office – 01484 450866
- Calderdale Women’s Centre Office – 01422 386500.
- Calderdale Staying Safe – 01422 323 339 (Mon-Fri 9am to 5pm)
- National 24hr Domestic Abuse Helpline – 0808 2000 247.
- WomenCentre Calderdale and Kirklees | Improving quality of life for women locally and nationally
Drugs & Alcohol Services
- Humankind (Calderdale) Humankind – For fair chances (humankindcharity.org.uk)
- Change, Grow, Live (Kirklees) CGL Kirklees | Kirklees in Recovery
Employment & Rights
- Employee Rights when pregnant
- Statutory Maternity Pay Benefits available during pregnancy – background information - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Pregnant Then Screwed Your Rights - Pregnant Then Screwed
Food support
Group B Strep support
Health Visitors
- Calderdale (Locala) 0300 3045076
- Kirklees (Locala) 0300 304 5555
- Locala Health Visiting
Housing and homelessness
- Calderdale Housing advice | Calderdale Council 01422 392460.
- Kirklees Housing and homelessness | Kirklees Council
Medication in pregnancy
Mental health support
- Calderdale and Kirklees Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Service 01484 343700
- Calderdale & Kirklees SPA Single Point of Access– 24 hour 01924 316830 / 0800 183 0558
- Perinatal Mental Health Team (South West Yorkshire NHS Trust) (Mon – Fri) 01924 316009
- Vitaminds Counselling Service (Calderdale) 0333 015 3494
- Talk Thru Counselling Service (Huddersfield) 01484 515137
- Action for Action on Postpartum Psychosis
- PANDAS Foundation
Miscarriage support
- The Miscarriage Association
- Talk Thru Counselling Service 01484 515137
- The Worst Girl Gang Ever
- Tommys Charity
Money Support
Multiple Births
- Multiple Births Association
- Twins Trust 01252 332344
Parenting support
- Action for Children Parent Talk - Support for Parents from Action For Children
- Auntie Pam’s (Kirklees) 01924 438316/01484 414775
- Calderdale Healthy Early Years Support(HEYS) | Calderdale Council Calderdale HEYS Website Healthy Early Years
- Home Start
- NSPCC Parenting support Support for parents | NSPCC
Physio & Pelvic Pain
- Physiotherapy Women's Health - CHFT (cht.nhs.uk) Exercise and advice for pregnancy; pelvic floor; pregnancy belts; bed mobility. Postnatal exercise after vaginal birth; Cesarean section; 3rd/4th degree tears; prolapse; bladder continence. Includes videos.
Premature Birth
Sexual Health
- Calderdale & Huddersfield 01422 261370 (Mon-Fri 9am-1pm) Contact us: Sexual Health CHT
Sickness Support
- Pregnancy Sickness Support
- Your GP can prescribe anti-sickness medicine
Stop Smoking Services
- Smokefree Pregnancy Service call Naomi (07329 079749) or Lucy (07342 078511)
- Yorkshire Smokefree (Calderdale) 01422 262373
- Kirklees Wellness Service
- Auntie Pam’s (Kirklees) 01924 438316/01484 414775 smokingpams@kirklees.gov.uk
- Bradford Living Well Stop Smoking Service 01274 438884
Stillbirth or Neonatal death
- SANDS for support after the loss of a baby
- Talk Thru Counselling Service 01484 515137
- Support after the loss of a baby 0800 02 888 40 Child Bereavement UK
- SANDS FC for dads Sands United FC | Sands - Stillbirth and neonatal death charity
- Petals Charity Counselling