Wonderful Sounds for Sleep

Elizabeth Pantley [06 August 2009] - The environment that your baby enjoyed for nine long months in the womb was not one of absolute quiet. There was a constant symphony of sound - your heartbeat and fluids rushing in and out of the placenta. (Remember those sounds from when you listened to your baby’s heartbeat with the Doppler stethoscope?) Research indicates that “white noise” sounds or soft bedtime music helps many babies to relax and fall asleep more easily. This is most certainly because these sounds create an environment more ar to your baby than a very quiet room. Read more »

Successful career & devoted mother. Can you really have it all?

Petro Pretorius [12 September 2008] -

The other day I was reading an article about how working mothers are treated more lenient and therefore take more liberties than their non-parent work colleagues. This was in a women's magazine and was quite interesting as it did tell the story from the single and childless point of view.

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Lactation Aid

Jack Newman [11 February 2010] - A lactation aid is a device that allows a breastfeeding mother to supplement her baby with expressed breastmilk, formula, glucose water with added colostrum or glucose water without using an artificial nipple. The early use of an artificial nipple may result in the baby becoming "bottle spoiled" or "nipple confused" because it interferes with the way a baby latches on to the breast. Actually, the baby is not confused. The baby knows exactly what the score is. If he goes to the breast and gets little milk and slow flow and then gets a bottle with rapid flow, especially in the first few days, most can figure that one out fairly quickly. Read more »