Taken from our brand new Cornwall Essential guide to feeding and caring for your baby, here are details on one of the most popular breastfeeding positions, the cradle. There are several ways to hold a baby to breastfeed, and we hope you find this guide to them useful – but it is important to note … Read more…
Your baby’s brain is still very much a ‘work in progress’ when he or she is born and a huge amount of brain development continues in the first 2 years of life. We know that interaction between babies and parents has a long term and lasting impact on a baby’s social and emotional development. All … Read more…
Emotive display of support outside board meeting Mums with little ones, Grandparents, Dads, breastfeeding Peer Support Volunteers and Health Care Professionals gathered outside a public meeting yesterday to express their concern to reports that the full-time post of Infant Feeding Coordinator (IFC), funded by the CFT, was under threat. The strength of feeling was very … Read more…
Stephanie Heard, Infant Feeding coordinator and Health visitor in Cornwall talks to Real Baby Milk about Peer Supporters involvement in the new antenatal programme, Bump to Baby
Thrush is a common and harmless yeast infection in a baby’s mouth that can affect your nipples during breastfeeding. Yeast is a normal part of everyone’s digestive system, but when there’s an overgrowth, an infection sets in. Please see our popular Audioboom about Thrush above and there are more details on the symtoms, causes and treatment below. … Read more…
The new and updated Cornwall Essential guide to feeding and caring for you baby is hot off the press, with extra pages and more information than ever before. Emphasising the UNICEF Baby Friendly information, we have now included a fascinating piece on ‘Oxytocin and Your Babies Amazing Brain’ along with other new features. Download your … Read more…
Our team member, Lesley, has been learning Italian for a few years now and although still at the bottom of her class (Si!), was able to help out some Italian visitors from Sasso Marconi near Bologna this spring when they visited Helston as part of the town’s Twinning celebrations. Lesley was able to be part … Read more…
The existence of a frenulum, or tongue tie, under the baby’s tongue is a normal thing, and about 10% of us have one. The vast majority of these are thin and stretchy and do not cause any problem with feeding, speech or anything else and should not regarded as an abnormality which needs to be corrected … Read more…
Congratulations! Becoming a grandparent for the first or subsequent time is exciting. This information has been written for grandparents like you who want to support your child or child’s partner to breastfeed. Your own children may or may not have been breastfed, perhaps there wasn’t much support around and feeding a baby with a bottle … Read more…
A great film showing how to safely bath your new born baby. Can’t see the video above? See it on Vimeo here