The first 48 hours after the birth of your baby can be demanding, exhilarating, uncomfortable, tiring, emotional and beautiful all at the same time. The main focus of these hours is getting to know your baby and recovering from the birth

. This emotional cocktail will probably be enough to sustain you for a while after birth so that you can get to know your baby and, if you’ve chosen to breastfeed, get breastfeeding underway. Your baby will be very alert for the first hour or so after birth, so

to manufacturer's instructions)Shake the feed occasionally for half an hour Return bottle to correct feeding temperature and give to baby as normal. Baby Relief Although Colic won't harm your baby it does cause discomfort. Try the following to help

The first forty-eight hours after birth are usually particularly intense, emotional and demanding for the whole family. Just as you as a new mum are going through a period of recovery from the birth, adjustment to your new reality and getting

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Mums in the UK could soon be entitled to take up to two hours a day in breastfeeding breaks when they return to work after maternity leave. EU proposals include giving new mums should have the right to work part-time for up to a year after having a

My employer wants me to come back in for a few days before I return properly. Do I have to?You are entitled to attend work for a maximum of 10 days during your 52 week maternity leave in order to 'keep in touch' with your workplace and any of its developments. This has recently b...

Jasmine Carr is on the road to recovery after becoming the youngest person ever to have open-heart surgery, at just 17-hours-old.The tiny fighter had a 15% chance of survival when surgeons at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital operated on her in September

likely to have a growth spurt. Babies were 43% more likely to have a growth spurt for every extra nap they took and every hour of extra sleep increased their likelihood of a spurt by 20%.“Little is known about the biology of growth spurts,” explained

A premature baby has been found alive in a morgue, 12 hours after she was pronounced dead, reports say.Argentinian mother Analia Bouter and her husband had been told that their premature daughter was stillborn when she gave birth in Argentina on 3rd