Breastfeeding - Mandy Mazliah

Contents
3 Ed’s letter
4-5 Welcome letters
6-7 How to hold a street
party
8-10 Meet the latest
members of our family
12-13 Purees and baby-led
weaning: a learning
curve
14 Recipe ideas
15-17 Breastfeeding: the
hardest thing I’ve ever
done
18-19 Jaundice - our
experiences
20 Out and about
21 Nursery wellbeing
22-23 Diary dates
24-25 Breastfeeding support
26 Book review
27 NCT vacancies
28 Nearly new sale
40-41 Meet the teams
42 Natural approaches to
baby ezcema
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In this issue
Editor’s letter
Welcome to our Spring newsletter! We
are celebrating it with lots of great articles
focussing on yours and your baby’s health
and wellbeing. I love spring, especially in
London where there seem to be daffodils,
crocuses and irises bursting through on
every corner; even the smallest bunch of
flowers really brightens up the scene. My 15
month old son, Jonah, is now old enough to
enjoy running around all the wonderful parks
in our branches’ areas and is fascinated with
flowers of any kind.
We do live in a wonderful city, and to help
you get the most out of it and connect with the community, we share
our favourite local top spots to take your children of all ages (see
p20) and include a weekly guide to some of the great parent/child
local activities (see p22). Also, we give some tips on how to hold a
street party (see p6) and our members share their experiences on
breastfeeding (see p15), purees / baby-led weaning (see p12), and
jaundice (see p18). We’ve included our top weaning recipes to help
inspire you in those ‘what can I feed my baby tonight for a bit of a
change’ moments (see p14). To help with maintaining everyone’s
health and wellbeing, we have articles which suggest how to deal
with baby’s eczema (see p42) and create a calming and lovely
space in the nursery (see p21). We’ve added a new ‘cultural’ page
to nourish our minds, and this month it features a member review
of the parenting book ‘What Mothers Do - Especially When It Looks
Like Nothing’ by Naomi Stadlen, which certainly gave me some food
for thought (see p28). Parenting can be a very rewarding but really
tough job, especially on a budget so we have an article on the Nearly
New Sales at which you can get great baby bargains (see page 28).
You’ll also find a list of local breastfeeding services which can help
with all aspects of breast feeding. I have certainly enjoyed editing
this newsletter (my first), and hope that you find it a helpful and
entertaining read! Please enjoy!
Tarnya Wilkins, Editor
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