With your hospital bag packed and ready to go, you can’t help but feel a surge of excitement each time you have a contraction. But as your physical body prepares itself for childbirth, areyou mentally prepared for the postpartum challenges ahead? Postnatal blues (or baby blues), a common postpartum challenge, affects up to 80% of …
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Just as you’ve finally conquered your baby’s milk schedule, you realise it’s soon time to introduce solids, otherwise known as weaning. Solids are not a replacement for breast milk or formula, which is meant to be their primary food source until 10 – 12-months-old. Paediatricians typically advise beginning at 6-months-old, when babies can swallow and …
Work demands that we plan and strategise, mitigating risks and rolling everything out to plain, right down to the last detail. Whether you are in the service sector or juggling multiple million dollar projects, there are SOPs and SLAs to follow. So we approach our motherhood that same way. Our prep work for parenting is …
A happy baby is a healthy baby. Vitamin and mineral rich foods play a key role in powering up our bub’s energy levels, fortifying immune systems, and ultimately helping them to ride their wave of developmental growth spurts off to a good start. Here are five must-have vitamins and minerals for babies, and easy recipes …
Got a new baby on the way? Time to declutter and get the house ready for the new arrival. Research suggests that a neat and tidy home not only breeds positivity but also promotes good health, both physically and mentally. But we can all agree, that keeping things neat and tidy with a newborn in …
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After nine long months, your date with your precious bub is finally here! Birthing your baby may be the most challenging thing you will ever have to go through but even after labour, the hard part is not over. The powerful contractions of your uterine muscles combined with the various hormonal changes that facilitated the …
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“Are you expecting baby number 2? The process of being a second-time parent can be daunting. While the hand-me-downs help ease a lot of the parenting load, the emotional and physiological strain on being a second-time parent can take its toll especially when you have an older child under your care. If you are obsessing …
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We’ve all heard of breastfeeding but have you stopped to wonder what the benefits are? Well, there are countless of benefits, so let’s focus on the key ones. How Breast Milk is Made First things first, the main component of breastfeeding is breast milk. But do you know how it is made? Breast milk is …
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