National Childbirth Trust

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Employer Selima Hill
SH ran adventure playgrounds, an Adult Education Centre creche, and a children's rights workshop. She worked for the National Childbirth Trust , and also spent some time working in bookshops. In 1991, she held a...
Literary responses Jeni Couzyn
Rosemary Sullivan called these love poems, and found them tough-minded, generous, tender.PN Review admired their handling of the binary of violence and tenderness represented by birth. Commentators from the angle of childbirth rather...

Timeline

1956
The National Childbirth Trust was founded in Britain with the aim of advising and supporting first-time mothers through pregnancy, breast-feeding (of which it was and remains an advocate), and childcare.
8-9 November 1985
The National Childbirth Trust held a conference at Wembley Conference Centre, London: The Promotion of Breastfeeding.