Baby

Supporting Your Child’s Relationship with Food… Right from Birth

There are important things that you can do, right from the start, to help nurture a positive relationship with food for your child.

Support One: You have a lot of jobs right now, but most of the decisions around feeding are up to your baby.

Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith works in private practice in Bayside Melbourne after working for an extensive period within a Melbourne Children’s Hospital.

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Baby Sensory Activities You Can Do At Home

Baby sensory play involves any activity that stimulates your infant’s sense of touch, smell, taste or hearing. The idea is to encourage your baby to use their senses to: play, create, investigate and explore the world around them. Infant sensory play stimulates the neural activity in your baby’s brain. This creates new neural connections in their brainallowing your bub to develop new skills such as language, Sarah James

Sarah is a qualified psychology teacher and mum of boysaged 2 and 5. Through her experiences in psychology and motherhood, Sarah has learnt lots of tips and tricks to help with baby development at home.

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Baby and Toddler Sleep Help that isn’t Sleep Training

Sleep training is a short-hand phrase for programs that combine some or many of the strategies which I’ve listed in Box 1. Technically, these programs arise out of the first wave of behaviorism, a school of psychology that swept around the world in the 1950s and 1960s and was popularised in ‘Scientific Mothering’. (Behaviourism is now into its third wave, and third-wave behavioral strategies, known as

Dr Pamela Douglas

Medical Director, Possums for Parents with Babies. Senior Lecturer, Primary Care Clinic Unit, The University of Queensland

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Caring For Your Baby’s Bottom –Preventing and Curing Nappy Rash

If your baby’s bum isn’t as smooth as it should be according to the old age (‘smooth as a baby’s bum’), but red and inflamed instead, your little one will no doubt cry and be miserable, especially as urine scalds his delicate skin. Although babies with very sensitive skin or a family history of skin disorders such as eczema or psoriasis may be more

Pinky McKay

Pinky McKay is Australia’s most recognised and respected breastfeeding and gentle parenting advocate. She’s an IBCLC Lactation Consultant, best-selling author of

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Baby Bottles and Bottle-feeding ‘101’ for New Parents

For new parents, choosing a baby bottle presents a steep learning curve. Locate the baby bottle section of a store, and you might feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount and types of products on the market, prompting some uneasy guesswork. For instance, do you understand the functional difference between wide and slim neck bottles and in which

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