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Formula-Feeding
All the beautiful ways you can bond with your baby on the bottle
Choosing to bottle-feed your bub can be fraught with complex emotions. While fed is 100% always best, as mums we often can’t help but beat ourselves up if our breastfeeding journey doesn’t go to plan. Maybe you had grand plans to feed for the first 12 months of your baby’s life but he had other ideas. Maybe you just wanted to make it to the six-month mark but your supply didn’t play ball. Often it’s...
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Signs & Symptoms
7 Common (but often unexpected) things babies can be born with
Welcoming your baby into the world is perhaps the most joyful yet overwhelming time of your life. After nine months of growing this mysterious person, you finally get to meet them for the very first time! Locking eyes with your newborn is a moment like no other. But sometimes new parents may have to face things they didn’t quite prepare for. Sure, you may have read all the books on pregnancy and sleep but the...
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Weaning
6 benefits of extended breastfeeding beyond a year
If you thought breastfeeding was only good for the baby, think again mama! Breastfeeding has been proven to have many benefits for both mum and bub, but did you know extended breastfeeding (that is breastfeeding your child past their first birthday or even after they turn two years old) isn’t necessarily widely supported by all parents. However you feed your baby – whether that’s bottle or boob – is totally fine, fed is always best....
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Breastfeeding
18 things no one tells you about breastfeeding (but they definitely should)
Ah breastfeeding! It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — or that’s how I remember it at least. And it sure took a while to get to the good times. Because that wonderful, life-giving, nurturing, bonding experience you’re sold in on can also be the biggest mind f*ck you are likely ever to experience in your life. While there is so much focus on pregnancy and giving birth, breastfeeding can...
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breastfeeding challenges
Did your breastfeeding journey go tits up? Same! Here’s what I wish I knew
I’m just going to put it out there — my boobs were made to breastfeed! With both of my daughters, I didn’t get one cracked nipple, my milk came in quickly and my flow was strong — all the foundations were there so I was confident we were going to have a long and prosperous ride on the milk train. What I didn’t realise was that breastfeeding is the ultimate collaboration, you’re working in tandem...
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Formula-Feeding
11 things you should never say to a formula-feeding mum
I’ll never forget when a friend of mine welcomed her beautiful new baby into the world, only to be reduced to tears by a midwife just hours later for not breastfeeding her child. Had the midwife taken a moment to speak with her before stepping onto her soapbox, she would have realised my friend had lost part of her breast in an accident when she was younger and therefore her body did not produce milk....
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Safe Sleep
Understanding safe sleep for babies
Recently, a CPR Kids follower contacted us with concerns over certain sleep-aiding products available in the market. These products come with promises such as “long sleep” or “safe sleep” for babies when in actual fact...
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Signs & Symptoms
How To Prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS
When you have a baby, you will find yourself in endless conversations talking about your baby’s sleep. Now everyone has an opinion when it comes to doing things the ‘right’ way. But one thing you can be sure of, is that babies will sleep A LOT in the early months. This may be in short stints for some but overall they will spend a lot of time in their sleeping environment. So, with this is mind,...
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Development Tips
Helping children use eye contact
They say the eyes are the window to the soul and when we first hold our precious newborns in our arms, we can’t help but look into their eyes. After nine months of waiting, we finally get to meet the little soul who was growing inside us. Staring into their eyes for the first time is nothing short of magic. Indeed, eye contact is a crucial part of building your child’s social skills, so you...
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