At each Vancouver Island Baby Fair, we partner with a charity who benefits from 100% of the money raised from the Photo Contest, Stroller Parking, and Face Painting, plus they get wide exposure to the thousands of visitors who attend the event. We have raised thousands of dollars and provided exposure for several charities over the past three years.

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If you're a regular at the Vancouver Island Baby Fair website, you might notice a change today - we've decided to get a little deeper into the blogosphere! Our previous blog was more of a news feed with alerts about upcoming Baby Fair events, prize giveaways in our e-Newsletter, and so on. That information will continue, but we plan to bring you much more with this new, expanded format.

Inside the Pea Pod will take you inside the Vancouver Island Baby Fair and the family that brings you this annual event. In addition to news and information about the Baby Fair, we'll also bring you the personal side of things - work/family balance, the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, parenting information, our community involvement, recipes, product reviews, and much more.

This blog is written by Vancouver Island Baby Fair producer Shirley Broback and her sidekick/co-producer/husband Mike Lowe. The couple are raising their 3-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy in Victoria, British Columbia, and bringing you the Vancouver Island Baby Fairs annually in Victoria and Nanaimo, B.C.

We are giving away a Milkie's Milk-Saver in our next Vancouver Island Baby Fair e-Newsletter coming out on March 8th!


Milkie's Milk-Saver helps moms conveniently collect and store breast milk and reduces the need for disposable nursing pads. Milk-Saver has a slim discreet design and comes with a travel case that keeps it clean, and also doubles as a stand to eliminate spills during your breastfeeding session. Simply slip Milk-Saver into your bra-cup on the non-nursing side before you breastfeed. It then collects the breast milk that is leaked out when your milk lets down. You can store this milk and save it for any time you need it.

Bellies in Bloom Maternity is proud to serve the breastfeeding community by providing more choice in nursing bras and other nursing products. Their goal is to make their breastfeeding customers feel confident, comfortable, and stylish. We do proper nursing bra fittings in the shop as well as being a breastfeeding friendly zone!

Sign up now for a chance to win a Milkie's Milk-Saver! Only subscribers to the Vancouver Island Baby Fair e-Newsletter will be eligible to win!