Preparing for your Home Visit: Should I feed my baby?
Very often, when driving to a home visit, I get a message on my phone: ‘He’s hungry! Should I feed him?! Should I try to wait?’ I’m driving, so I can’t || Read more ||
Very often, when driving to a home visit, I get a message on my phone: ‘He’s hungry! Should I feed him?! Should I try to wait?’ I’m driving, so I can’t || Read more ||
So I’m going to be all serious now, and add some information here about dehydration in babies. I’ve spoken often about how exclusively breastfed babies do not need extra water, || Read more ||
Have you every tried a Supplemental Nursing System (SNS)? Looks kind of complicated and scary, right? It doesn’t need to be! Let me make it super easy for you. But || Read more ||
I thought, like many mums of breastfeeding toddlers, that it would be totally impossible to night wean my two year old. Any time I read someone’s explanation of how they || Read more ||
It’s time to tell my own story. My story is hard for me to tell, but I feel it is important. I have made many decisions throughout our breastfeeding journey, || Read more ||
I thought breastfeeding aversion, or nursing aversion and agitation, was something that only inflicted pregnant mothers. And I’m not pregnant, so why have I had so many moments of hating breastfeeding lately? || Read more ||
Claire is a Switzerland-based Australian writer whose passionate, thought-provoking musings and poetry can be found at clairevetica.wordpress.com. The clarity and intensity in both her self and her writing is something || Read more ||
Last weekend, I travelled to Geneva to speak on a panel at the World Health Organisation’s Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative congress. Surrounded by over 300 experts from 137 countries, I || Read more ||
Rachel, an American mother living in Switzerland, writes the inspiring expat lifestyle blog My Mini Adventurer. I asked Rachel to be a part of Milk and Motherhood after meeting for coffee || Read more ||
As someone who has struggled with low supply for both of my babies, who had over forty appointments with lactation consultants throughout Switzerland and also in Australia, who used formula || Read more ||