Articles Tagged: bottle feeding

Mums feel under too much pressure to breastfeed

By Kelly Rose Bradford, Mar 15, 2012

There's no doubt that breastfeeding is good for babies - but is it pushed just too hard to women, regardless of their needs and circumstances?

Your baby at three months

By Hilary Pereira, Feb 1, 2012

Your two to three-month-old is learning fast, and you'll be amazed at how accomplished he can become in quite a short time. During this period of time he will reward you with lovely smiles – real ones, not just windy grimaces!

Your baby's first month

By Hilary Pereira, Feb 1, 2012

Congratulations! After nine months of hope and anxiety, spiced up with a liberal dose of hormones, your baby has finally arrived. Taking your newborn home for the first time is daunting for all of us and the first weeks will be a mix of elation and exhaustion and becoming the expert on your baby as you learn to recognise and respond to your baby's needs.

Formula-fed babies more 'at risk of becoming overweight in childhood', say scientists

By Keith Kendrick, Dec 23, 2011

Feeding newborn babies with formula milk may increase the risk of children developing diabetes and obesity when they grow up, according to scientists.

The mouths of babes

By Pip Jones, Aug 30, 2011

There are some things about motherhood that will always remain as primitive as conception itself. Other than protecting our offspring from roaming predators (or rather these days moving vehicles, open first-floor windows, child-targeted advertising and so on) our ONE job, as a mother, is to ensure our children are fed. And it becomes, without you even realising it, quite obsessional.