No More Day Sleeps

Posted on October 13, 2015

There comes a time in a child’s life unfortunately for parents when they no longer seem to need their day sleep and are quite happy to be up for hours at a time. Problem is that mum or dad still …
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Keeping Children Busy

Posted on October 13, 2015

Needing an activity to keep your children busy? Mother nature provides us with wonderful sensory items One can never walk along the trail of shells without stopping to touch, pocket or exclaim over a few Needing an activity to keep …
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Creating a home for your child after separation

Posted on August 18, 2015

A child must have a ‘home’ We can manage separation better, than we have in the past How can you help them to adjust? This question weighs heavily on parents who are thinking of separating or are separated. Your one …
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How a Newborn Sees You

Posted on July 7, 2015

June 29, 2015 | written by Kjerstin Gjengedal | Source:University of Oslo A newborn infant can see its parents’ expressions at a distance of 30 cm. For the first time researchers have managed to reconstruct infants visual perception of the …
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Introducing the bottle

Posted on June 30, 2015

Getting your baby used to bottles Whether you are bottle feeding with expressed breast milk or formula, not all breast fed babies switch to bottles easily in the beginning. If your baby is not taking to the bottle, try: Warming …
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Babies born via caesareans have poorer health

Posted on June 16, 2015

Rebel Wylie | Kidspot | June 2015 While caesarean and vaginal deliveries are both associated with well-known risks, researchers have found a link between caesarean deliveries and long-term child chronic disease. Caesarean deliveries have been responsible for saving the lives …
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Moving from two day sleeps to one

Posted on June 8, 2015

Once your baby has their first birthday you will at some point start to wonder when your toddler progresses from having two day sleeps to one. At the age of 1 year, yes your toddler should still be having two …
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Advice on Mix Feeding

Posted on June 7, 2015

Bottle Feeding Advice Breast milk is the best choice for babies. Sometimes it is not possible for infants to exclusively feed directly from the breast and the use of bottles may be required to feed expressed breast milk or an …
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How to Night Wean – How many feeds are normal

Posted on May 11, 2015

How many night feeds are normal? Night weaning is a question I often am asked by parents. It is easy to say just cut back but very hard to do at 2am with a crying baby who just wants to …
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Solving Accidental Co-Sleeping

Posted on April 15, 2015

How do I break the habit of co-sleeping with my three year old? I didn’t intent to allow my daughter to sleep in our bed but when she awoke at 4am I’d let her in and now she thinks mum …
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