Surviving night time feeds
Surviving your baby’s night time feeding regime is a major feat of endurance for which you need all the help you can get. …
Feeding
A quick guide to introducing 100 foods in the first year
You may have heard about ‘100 First Foods’ or ‘100 Foods before One’ but what does this mean and how do you achieve it? …
The key nutrients for baby's optimal development
Jenny Douglas from Jumpstart Nutrition gives us the rundown on what key nutrients your baby needs for the best start in life. As soon as babies are born, they start sucking or looking for the breast as they know milk is what they need to sustain …
When is the best time to wean your baby?
Every mother has her own unique breastfeeding journey, each with a beginning, a middle and an end. Midwife and lactation consultant Stephanie Callaghan Armstrong discusses the ins and outs of weaning. There’s so much talk about how to …
Is your baby getting enough iron?
Babies need plenty of iron in their diet because they are growing so quickly and iron is essential for their growth and development. But what are the best sources of iron and how do you include iron in your baby's diet? Babies need lots of iron …
Expert shares inside knowledge on allergies
Food allergies and intolerances are increasingly prevalent these days. Dietitian Jenny Douglas shares her inside knowledge. Having a young child with food allergies or intolerances can be very worrying for parents. Sometimes it’s hard to know …
Best snacks for new mums
Eating and drinking can be a challenge while you have a new baby in the house, writes Christine Stride. You get used to eating most meals cold or reheated and hot drinks half-finished. If you’re breastfeeding, you'll need to eat a little extra too – …
Would you donate your breast milk?
In the good old days, sharing breast milk was a cultural norm, but now, securing another mother's breast milk for your baby, is no easy task. However, founder of fledgling milk bank North Canterbury Breast Milk, Natalie Gillespie is hoping her model …
Baby care 101: Feeding
No sooner do babies arrive ‘earth side’ than they seek out food. Fascinatingly, newborn babies are capable of doing the ‘breast crawl’, whereby they instinctively move towards their mother’s nipple, mere minutes after being born. The general …
Step by step guide to feeding
For the first 12 months feeding baby may well become central to your peace of mind. We offer tips to help with those early stages You've spent nine months growing a baby in your tummy, now comes the next challenge - keeping that baby full of …
How to wean your baby
All good things one day come to an end. Alice Cranfield discusses the practical and emotional implications of weaning baby. Breastfeeding eventually comes to an end for every mother and child. For some, this happens early on but for others, …
Milk banking
Fill 'er up, sister Breastfeeding mums around the country are helping non-lactating mums get the good stuff into their babies, writes Sarah Tennant If you want to become jaded with humanity, take a look at the comments section of any online …
Bottle Feeding
Bottle Feeding To breast or bottle feed is a debate most new mothers are totally unaware of until baby arrives and a decision has to be made. For many the decision has already been made by the amount of information received through midwives and …
