Mother & Baby Care

It is important to understand that your lifestyle, including your diet and other behaviors, can have an affect on your breast milk, and therefore on your baby. It’s also very important for all nursing mothers to take care of themselves so they can provide the best care to their babies. This includes getting enough [...]

It would be ideal for you to begin breastfeeding as soon as possible after the birth. When a mother is expecting more than one baby, sometimes a surgical birth becomes necessary. In this case, some hours may go by before you can start to breastfeed. However, it is important that you nurse your babies [...]

The most important part of breastfeeding is getting the baby to latch on correctly. If the baby latches on poorly, then they will be limited as to how well they will get milk. Further, by latching on poorly, the baby may cause the mother to bin pain. Also, since the child is not receiving [...]

Try to place baby at the breast as soon as possible after the birth. Ideally, right in the delivery room if possible. Ensure that your practitioner will allow you to nurse in the birthing or deliver room if all goes normally.

Babies only minutes old will often crawl up to the breast from the mother’s abdomen, [...]

Human milk is more than food. It’s a complex living substance, like blood, with a long list of active germ-fighting and health-promoting ingredients. These help protect babies against all kinds of infections, common and not-so-common. A drop of breastmilk contains around one million white blood cells. These cells, called macrophages (”big eaters”), gobble up germs. [...]

Think of nursing as continued motivation to follow the healthy diet you followed during pregnancy. Focus on eating whole grains and cereals, fresh fruits and vegetables, and foods that provide plenty of protein, calcium, and iron (and, as always, an occasional treat is fine).