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Baby weaning tips
What to feed your baby when you start weaning with some tips and guidelines for weaning. General tips: The World Health Organisation now advises that babies up to the age of six months only need breast or formula milk. If you think your baby needs solids before this time, talk to your health visitor. Do…
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Tagged 6 months, Baby, baby food, Baby-led weaning, Breast milk, Breastfeeding, finger food, food, Purée, Weaning, World Health Organisation
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breastfeeding as contraceptive
‘You won’t get pregnant if you’re breastfeeding’ is no old wives’ tale, say researchers at the World Health Organisation. They examined the risk of pregnancy for over 4,000 women from seven different countries worldwide, all of whom were breastfeeding and whose periods had stopped. During ‘full breastfeeding’ for the first six months, pregnancy rates were as low as…
Too Posh To Push?
Caesarean birth rates in the UK are rocketing – but no-one knows why. Despite World Health Organisation advice that as few as 10 per cent of births should be Caesarean sections, some hospitals are delivering up to 30 per cent of babies in this way. Now midwives, gynaecologists and obstetricians have gathered at a conference…
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Tagged Caesarean section, Childbirth, Frances Day-Stirk, Gynaecology, Midwife, National Childbirth Trust, Pregnancy, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Obstetricans, Royal College of Obstetricans and Gynaecologists, Surgical procedures, World Health Organisation
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Pureed food could be harmful to babies
18th June 2007 Parents who feed their babies pureed food could be damaging their chewing skills, according to experts. Gill Rapley, deputy director of UNICEF UK’s Baby Friendly Initiative, also warns that infants who are fed pureed food before six months often don’t take easily to solids and are more likely to suffer with constipation. The warning comes…
Homebirths save lives and lower caesarean rates
17th June 2005 Expectant couples across the UK have been given yet more evidence in the latest of a series of studies which support the British Medical Association and Royal College of Midwives view that home births are as safe, if not more safe, than hospital births. The study published this week in the British Medical Journal, is the…
Posted in Birth choices, Caesarean section, News
Tagged anaesthetist, Caesarean section, Childbirth, Home birth, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Hypnotherapy in childbirth, Maggie Howell, Midwife, Natal Hypnotherapy, Penny Griffith, Pregnancy, relaxation techniques, researched product, Royal College of Midwives, the British Medical Journal, World Health Organisation
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Mumps Increase Across The UK
Experts have said that there is a mumps epidemic across the UK with nearly 5000 cases in January alone. Most of the cases have been in young adults but two separate papers in the British Medical Journal say that cases are also cropping up in vulnerable children. Cases are being seen in people born before…
News: Scrap growth charts to encourage breast feeding
Child growth charts used for 30 years in the UK should be ripped up and replaced with a new World Health Organisation guide, according to a new report.The joint report, by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), says WHO Growth Standards should be applied…
Vaccine has wiped out meningitis C
21st April 2008 One of the deadliest forms of meningitis has been all but wiped out, Government figures to be released today will show. The Department of Health says that there were no deaths last year from type C meningitis. Ministers will hail the statistics as evidence that a killer disease which once caused terror in schools and…
Out of date growth charts linked to childhood obesity
27th April 2007 Mothers are overfeeding their babies because of out of date NHS growth charts. A study by childhood nutrition expert Prof Bert Koletzko of Munich University, claims the charts which have been used in the UK for over 30 years, are contributing to childhood and teenage obesity. After studying the charts, Prof Koletzko found that they…
Breast may be best for babies at risk of HIV
1 December, 2000 BREAST MAY BE BEST FOR BABIES AT RISK OF HIV BREASTFEEDING might be the best way for HIV positive mums to help their babies, especially in the developing world. Current advice is for HIV positive mums to give their child formula milk, in a bid to protect the baby from transmission of…
