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When I was pregnant the advice I remember most was from a friend whose baby was four months old at the time.

She told me that, for her, breastfeeding was hard at the beginning. She struggled with cracked nipples and terrible mastitis but she was glad she had gotten through it and was now breastfeeding happily.

Her story armed me with two things -the knowledge that breastfeeding wasn't necessarily going to be easy and the confidence to know that even if it ...

It was really important to me as a nutritionist to exclusively breast feed my baby for the first six months of her life. Despite this I was surprised at how many times I almost automatically wanted to offer her food or share what I was eating with her! The World Health Organisation and also the Breastfeeding Association recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months.

Why?

Primarily it's got to do with their immune system and giving them the best opportunity ...

When a mum is breastfeeding it is really important to eat a diet good in nutrients and to avoid any kind of diet that severely restricts calorie intakes and which contain weight loss accelerants or chemicals.

Our bodies burn approximately 500 calories per day when breastfeeding so we also need to consume more food to provide our body with the energy to produce the milk and healthy snacks during the day are a great way to boost your calorie intake.

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I had an electric breast pump ... for one day.

In a sleep-deprived haze I failed to read the first instruction - DO NOT IMMERSE IN WATER - and I did just that after the first use. So it was "goodbye hundreds of dollars" and "hello manual breast pump" (thankfully it could be used as both!).

So I am clearly no expert on electric breast pumps. Although I am better informed than my younger brother, who (about 20 years ago) began giggling uncontrollably ...

SIDS and Kids has revised their safe sleeping guidelines to include a new recommendation - 'breastfeed baby if you can'.

The new recommendation is based on research that shows breastfeeding more than halves the risk of sudden and unexpected infant death.

Review* author and safe sleeping expert Adjunct Professor Jeanine Young says studies conducted over the past 15 years have consistently found that breastfeeding reduces the risk of SIDS.

"A recent ...