Pre-schooler’s food. It’s a touchy subject – either they don’t eat enough, or there’s an ongoing battle to hold back the tide of cakes and sweets. Childhood obesity is a growing problem, as Jamie Oliver makes brutally clear in this TED talk. Of course it is about extreme cases in America, but where our transatlantic [...]
Ah the leaky nipple story, a rite-of-passage for any BFing mum. One friend soaked through her bridesmaid’s dress (and didn’t notice until after the wedding!). I escaped until my daughter was a good ten-months: I did a dance workshop for the day, with a performance in the evening and forgot my pump – you can [...]
Thanks to a good friend, I found out about baby lead weaning when I was pregnant. I popped round to hers for tea one afternoon; her eight-month-old daughter was sitting with us. Anna simply sat down and popped a piece of broccoli in front of Nina, who picked up the stem investigated the head with [...]
Now I never had any problems feeding my baby (after an initial glitch over my milk supply, which felt pretty horrendous at the time), and I never had any problems giving her a bottle. Admittedly, she was old enough to hold it by then – and drop it and lose it constantly. Hmm, a toddler [...]
Breastfeeding in the UK is increasing. Eight out of ten newborn babies are now breastfed according to figures from the Infant Feeding Survey released this morning. That is up from six out of ten back in 1990.
It is also National Breastfeeding Week and Woman’s Hourdiscussed it this morning. so [...]
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