When is the best time to wean your baby?
Every mother has her own unique breastfeeding journey, each with a beginning, a middle and an end. Midwife and lactation …
Feeding
Open wide: helpful tips on starting solids
Confused by all the messages about food for babies? Stress no more - here are some handy tips on how to make seamless …
Best snacks for new mums
Eating and drinking can be a challenge while you have a new baby in the house, writes Christine Stride. You get used to eating most meals cold or reheated and hot drinks half-finished. If you’re breastfeeding, you'll need to eat a little extra too – …
Would you donate your breast milk?
In the good old days, sharing breast milk was a cultural norm, but now, securing another mother's breast milk for your baby, is no easy task. However, founder of fledgling milk bank North Canterbury Breast Milk, Natalie Gillespie is hoping her model …
Baby care 101: Feeding
No sooner do babies arrive ‘earth side’ than they seek out food. Fascinatingly, newborn babies are capable of doing the ‘breast crawl’, whereby they instinctively move towards their mother’s nipple, mere minutes after being born. The general …
Surviving night time feeds
Surviving your baby’s night time feeding regime is a major feat of endurance for which you need all the help you can get. Christine Stride shares some tips. For me, the first months of night feeds were a surreal blur. My first daughter and I …
Step by step guide to feeding
For the first 12 months feeding baby may well become central to your peace of mind. We offer tips to help with those early stages You've spent nine months growing a baby in your tummy, now comes the next challenge - keeping that baby full of …
All you need to feed
Here are a few of our favourite mealtime basics: just add a generous dollop of patience and humour – and a few cleaning products for the aftermath. phil&teds Poppy highchair in blackThe food tray clicks in and out with the press of a …
How to wean your baby
All good things one day come to an end. Alice Cranfield discusses the practical and emotional implications of weaning baby. Breastfeeding eventually comes to an end for every mother and child. For some, this happens early on but for others, …
Fine dining babies
Making lunch for your baby can be a fairly mundane affair - simply boil, mash and serve. Unless, of course, you are a top chef and determined to encourage your child's palate to appreciate a wide range of flavours. Auckland chef Sid Sahrawat and …
Milk banking
Fill 'er up, sister Breastfeeding mums around the country are helping non-lactating mums get the good stuff into their babies, writes Sarah Tennant If you want to become jaded with humanity, take a look at the comments section of any online …
Bottle Feeding
Bottle Feeding To breast or bottle feed is a debate most new mothers are totally unaware of until baby arrives and a decision has to be made. For many the decision has already been made by the amount of information received through midwives and …