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Breastfeeding is supposed to be a natural thing. While it is the most natural thing in the world, it does not necessarily come naturally to new mothers and their babies. There are so many questions that face Mums on their breastfeeding journey, read on to learn the answers to 5 of the most common questions that new mothers have from an …
Breastfeeding is a wonderful, magical thing. Feeding your baby with liquid gold that you made yourself? Well that all sounds too good to be true. The truth of the matter is, breastfeeding can be really hard work too. Not Mummy and baby “take” to it immediately. It is a skill to be learned. Having breastfed all 4 of my children …
Breastfed babies don’t sleep, or at least this is what we are led to believe. Although it may be a little while before your newborn baby allows you to have a full night of interrupted sleep, there are plenty of ways in which you can encourage your breastfed baby to have more of their quota of sleep in the night …
I have breastfed all four of my children. In fact, I am still feeding my now 15 month old youngest daughter, Zara. My experiences with each of them were different with various levels or ease or difficulties. When I had my 2 boys, they were not “good” sleepers as babies. Dylan, my eldest, did not sleep through the night …
Feeding your newborn through the night is something that us Mamas all have to go through. It is hard. There are 2 ways to get through it; you can clock watch and yearn for the moment that your baby finally goes back to sleep so that you can too, or you can make the most of it. I chose the …
Expressing or pumping breastmilk for your baby is not easy. In fact, it is so hard, that with my first son, I was convinced that I could not do it and gave up completely. The fact is, that with the correct technique, equipment & schedule, it is possible to express plenty of milk to support your baby’s feeding. Read on …
Breastfeeding is the best start that you can give your baby, but it does not come without it’s challenges. Babies have no concept that some locations may be more convenient than others for nursing, so you need to be able to get your boobs out wherever you are at a moment’s notice. I’m not suggesting for a second that you …
As you will know if you are a breastfeeding Mum or have been reading the posts my the Breastfeeding Series, while it is a totally natural process, even the most experience Mamas can come across problems on their nursing journey. While problems can be varied, there is one simple trick that I am going to teach you today that will …
If you talk to mothers who have breastfed, you will hear a wide range of stories about their journeys, varying from easy to a few bumps in the road to down right difficult. As you will know if you have read my breastfeeding story, one out of my four breastfed babies presented me with an especially difficult time. At a …
As breastfeeding Mums, we are never exactly sure how much of that liquid gold that our babies are getting. Although it is widely accepted in the health care profession that “breast is best”, it can be nerve wracking as a new Mummy not to be able to quantify how much of a feed that our babies take. Here are 5 …