Feeding Baby |
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Homemade Baby Food
1. Hygiene Cleanliness is extremely important when preparing food for your family. Prior to making baby food, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and warm water, and ensure that the equipment and the cooking...
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Fun Valentine's Day Ideas
Sweetheart’s Treats Luscious Lava Cakes Rich and runny with a deep, dark, delicious chocolate centre, these will be the hit at your next special event. ...
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Breastfeeding and Medications
Over the years, far too many women have been wrongly told they had to stop breastfeeding. The decision about continuing breastfeeding when the mother takes a drug, for example, is far more involved than whether...
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Make Your Own Baby Food
Making your own fresh baby food is healthy and economical. To help you get started, we've gathered together some easy-to-make recipes your baby will love! Babies Best...
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Myths of Breastfeeding
Many women do not produce enough milk. Not true! The vast majority of women produce more than enough milk. Indeed, an overabundance of milk is common. Most babies that gain too slowly, or lose...
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How To Know A Healthcare Practitioner Is Not Supportive
Most healthcare practitioners say they are supportive of breastfeeding. But many are supportive only when breastfeeding is going well, and...
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Lactation Aid
A lactation aid is a device that allows a breastfeeding mother to supplement her baby with expressed breastmilk, formula, glucose water with added colostrum or glucose water without using an artificial nipple. The...
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Protocol to Increase Breastmilk Intake
Most mothers have lots of milk or could have had lots, but the problem is that the baby is not getting the milk that is available. Sometimes, mothers are told they have too much milk, and it may come out very...
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Breast Compression
The purpose of breast compression is to continue the flow of milk to the baby when the baby is only sucking without drinking. Drinking (“open mouth wide—pause—then close mouth” type of...
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Is My Baby Getting Enough Milk?
Breastfeeding mothers frequently ask how to know their babies are getting enough milk. The breast is not the bottle, and it is not possible to hold the breast up to the light to see how many ounces or millilitres...
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Starting Solid Foods
Health Canada and the Canadian Pediatric Society and the American Academy of Pediatrics and UNICEF and IBFAN and the Global Strategies on Infant Feeding recommend breastfeeding exclusively to about six...
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Colic in the Breastfed Baby
Colic is one of the mysteries of nature. Nobody knows what it really is, but everyone has an opinion. In the typical situation, the baby starts to have crying periods about two to three weeks after birth. These...
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Breastfeeding- Starting Out Right
Breastfeeding is the natural and normal way of feeding infants and young children, and human milk is the milk made specifically for human infants. A good start helps to ensure breastfeeding is a happy...
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Thoughts On Weaning
I wrote this article back in 1992, when I was nursing my third child, Erik. I have since been blessed with another nursing baby, Ian, who is now eleven months old. My eleven month old had an accident a...
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To Breastfeed or not to Breastfeed: Is it a legitimate question?
Breastfeeding. It’s a word that evokes a plethora of opinions and emotions for many moms. When I was pregnant with my first child I had heard...
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