Ten breastfeeding tips

Meagan Shaw Breastfeeding is a gift for your baby that keeps on giving, so enjoy the time together and seek help if you are having difficulties. There is plenty of support out there for new Mums.

Breastfeeding

Essential Baby recommends that all new mothers aim to breastfeed their babies.

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Australian Breastfeeding Association

Just as women enrol in antenatal classes during pregnancy to learn about childbirth, mothers-to-be find subscribing to the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) before their baby is born, or attending a breastfeeding education class, a great way to learn about breastfeeding and parenting.

Breastfeeding helpline launched

ABA 1800 mum 2 mum utilises the real-life experience of over 200 trained volunteer counsellors each week who help other mums with issues including expressing and storing milk, weaning, supply and what to do when baby simply says no.

Twelve months on the breast - normal, natural, healthy

Brooke Wells New statistics from the 2008 Infant Nutrition Survey show that while 95% of new mothers initiate breastfeeding, many do not go on to exclusively breastfeed for six months as recommended by the National Health and Research Council and World Health Organisation.

My Child | Australian Breastfeeding Association

Should you keep breastfeeding?

Wondering when is the right time to stop breastfeeding? Here’s why feeding into toddlerhood and beyond can be more beneficial than you may think.

Geeks, not all breast exposure is naughty

Tara Moss 'Shares that contain nudity, pornography, or sexual content are not permitted on Facebook … refrain from posting abusive material in the future.''

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When mothers have support, breastfed babies thrive

Tara Moss The decision about how to feed a new baby is often unnecessarily fraught.

Invisible cord

Geoff Maslen The bond between a mother and a breastfeeding baby is the subject of a research project

New DVD helps mums establish breastfeeding

Staff writers New mums struggling with breastfeeding basics have a new tool at their disposal – a visual how-to created by lactation consultant, registered nurse and midwife Kate Hale.

Jessie Reid

Is three a crowd?

Forget those old wives’ tales about the negatives of breastfeeding while you’re pregnant and beyond – in reality there are a host of big benefits. Here’s the lowdown on tandem feeding.

MyBust – personalise your fit! Cake Lingerie

MyBust – personalise your fit!

MyBust, a new revolutionary technology from Cake Lingerie will have women feeling sexier and more confident in bras personalised to fit.

Milk bank a boost for tiny battlers

Kate Hagan Like the babies it will benefit, Victoria's first breast milk bank will start small and grow slowly.

HOTmilk's guide to the perfect maternity bra

Gone are the days when women have to resort to mismatched grey cottons and bras made from uncomfortable fabrics while pregnant and nursing, with no consideration for when their breasts are at their most sensitive. We know you want to look and feel comfortable all at the same time - so we've designed bras which allow you to do just that!

Feed your baby, feed yourself

Justine Davies If "breast is best" as the saying goes, then can taking care with what we eat make it even better?

Breastfeed ban sparks mothers' mall protest

Glenda Kwek Australian mall owners say mothers are free to breastfeed children in their centres, after outrage over a Canadian woman who was forced to leave a store in Montreal for nursing her baby.

In like Flynn: Miranda names baby

Miranda Kerr has revealed her son's name- and blogged a photo of herself breastfeeding.

Putting a price on mother's milk bank

Alicia Wood Mothers who cannot breastfeed will have the option of giving their babies milk from donor mothers if a community milk bank is funded by the state government.

Breastfeeding photos 'unsuitable for children'

Christine Kellett Photographer's topless African tribe banned from Facebook.

My Child | Australian Breastfeeding Association

Should you keep breastfeeding?

Wondering when is the right time to stop breastfeeding? Here’s why feeding into toddlerhood and beyond can be more beneficial than you may think.

Gisele Bundchen thinks all mothers should breastfeed

Natalie Godward Gisele Bundchen, Supermodel and mother of 1, believes that mothers should be forced to breastfeed for the first six months of their baby's life.

Breastfeeding fights chronic disease

Australian doctors are claiming negative attitudes toward breastfeeding have contributed to the volume of chronic disease in the country.

Breastfeeding furore: Does a lover really have first claim on breasts?

Rowan Pelling No topic is liable to prompt a fist fight among mothers so rapidly as breastfeeding. So a provocative article just published in the UK version of Mother & Baby magazine, which calls breastfeeding 'creepy', has acted like kerosene on a conflagration.

Breastfeeding Feelings... what a change

Juliana Fridman I have been using the hospital breast pump day and night since I woke up from all the drugs of the caesarean… I even wake up in the middle of the night to express.

Workers win right to breastfeed

Adele Horin Mothers returning to work in NSW public service win right to breastfeed at work or express milk in a private comfortable space.

Breast is best

Health benefits of breastfeeding continue to add up

Bridie Smith About 18 per cent of Australian mothers are still breastfeeding their infants at six months of age, a figure many health professionals want increased.

Breastfeeding - what if it doesn't come easily?

Amity Dry With my second child due in 9 weeks I am hoping breastfeeding comes as easily this time. Because I know it’s not always the case, and the results can be heartbreaking.

Breastfeeding awareness

Anni Taylor Essential Baby chats to two EB members Michelle and Manda about their breastfeeding experiences. Read their stories here.

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Abbott formula: breast is best

Young families will be happy to be the focus of the latest bidding war to break out between Kevin Rudd's government and Tony Abbott's opposition.

Ten breastfeeding tips

Meagan Shaw Breastfeeding is a gift for your baby that keeps on giving, so enjoy the time together and seek help if you are having difficulties. There is plenty of support out there for new Mums.

Breastfeeding "slogans"

Essential Baby members We all know of the copious benefits that breastfeeding has for your baby, but what about the benefits to Mum?

Breastfeeding

Essential Baby recommends that all new mothers aim to breastfeed their babies.

Bank for mothers' milk no premature concept

Julia Medew Gillian Opie has watched thousands of premature babies struggle through their first weeks of life. She has also watched their mothers trying to produce breast milk for them - in many cases without success.

Twelve months on the breast - normal, natural, healthy

Brooke Wells New statistics from the 2008 Infant Nutrition Survey show that while 95% of new mothers initiate breastfeeding, many do not go on to exclusively breastfeed for six months as recommended by the National Health and Research Council and World Health Organisation.

Nursing mothers to get more support in 'breast is best' push

Mark Metherell Mothers will be encouraged to feed their babies only breast milk for the first six months as part of an ambitious new national breastfeeding policy.

What they don't tell Dads about breastfeeding

Richie Young If The Nightly Adventures of Poo, Wee and Tears hasn’t already tipped us over the edge into the realisation that life as we knew it has disappeared forever, the breastfeeding most surely will.