The Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA), recommends breastfeeding mums need to eat an extra 2000kj a day on top of the recommended 8-10,000kj a day for a standard diet. Breastfeeding mums produce approximately 800ml of milk a day and the demands of producing that milk means that they need to keep an eye on their diet [...]
Sometimes as a breastfeeding mum you feel like your supply is lacking, particularly of an evening after a long day. You don’t need to worry about your supply if you have some Lactation Cookies at hand. The main ingredients of the lactation cookies are galactagogues (which are substances that promote lactation) and there are a [...]
It’s easy to see why breast milk is the best possible start for your baby, after all it was designed by Mother Nature to contain everything your baby will need to thrive for the first six months, and it is also the perfect complement to first foods for the first year and beyond. However some [...]
Nowadays quite a lot of publicity is being given to the suspicion that cows’ milk-based infant formula may be responsible for an increase in Type-1 diabetes among Australian children.
Just as breastfeeding does not make you a good mother, bottlefeeding does not make you a bad one.
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Information on the contentious issue of whether to feed you baby by breast or bottle.
For some women expressing milk can be an effective way of planning ahead, however, for others it proves to be difficult and frustrating task.
Most newborns will feed six to eight times in 24 hours. But some babies will be content with five feeds over this period.
Your baby’s diet is forever evolving. Discovering strange and new food tastes and textures is an important part of your child’s development and can effect your child’s feeding patterns for life.