Tag: mamaway
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HOW TO CHOOSE A GOOD NURSING BRA FOR BREASTFEEDING
How to choose a good nursing bra for breastfeeding? Why a nursing bra is so important? A good nursing bra is a must for a successful breastfeeding experience, and it makes your “heavy” breast more comfortable. One of the ways to make your pregnancy and nursing life easy is to get a suitable and properly fitted…
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Liquid Gold: How Best To Store Breast Milk
In most cases, feeding your baby breastmilk directly from your breast will be the most simple and efficient way to feed him, however, this is not always possible and let’s face it, there are many reasons why this might be the case. Life for us mums is busy! Perhaps you’re heading back to work outside…
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I want my (pre) baby body back!
It might be the inspiration for some, but Miranda Kerr’s post-baby ‘body-bounce’ makes most new mums want to hurl… yet we’re told that she does enjoy a burger. Her ‘addiction’ for Melbourne’s Mikoshi burger has me ROTFL. You know the burger I mean… chicken, wrapped in lettuce. Come on, Miranda, we all know you’re professionally…
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Adjusting To Early Parenthood
As soon as you discover you’re pregnant, there’s a world of adjustment that’s required and much of it is to be relished and delighted in. However, you may have been so enchanted by these that you haven’t considered the biggest and most imminent of changes to your lifestyle yet to come – when baby arrives!…
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BABYWEARING HELPS TO KEEP ME FIT AND STRONG
After having her first baby Tara Darlington decided to train to become a Birth Educator and Doula. 14 years later she is now a mother of 6 children as well as a highly qualified Birth Educator, Doula, and Yoga Teacher. “I trained as a Birth Educator & Doula after I had my first baby, realizing…
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HOW TO INCREASE YOUR MILK SUPPLY
As a breastfeeding mum, I was often worried about whether I was producing enough milk for my baby. If I could have seen and calculated how much milk my baby was ingesting, I would have been so much happier. I was not on my own though, I was later to learn that most mums fret about their…
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Out with six kids, on-time, or thereabouts
The exercise of getting out and about with any number of kids can feel like purgatory and you might think the more kids you have the more gnashing of teeth you’re in for. Some ask, ‘how do you do it?’‘What?’ I ask‘Get out of the house with six kids?’ I run a tight ship! is…
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Let’s go, Mums! 10 things you need to have in your gym bag
Being a mother is a full-time job, and with such a busy schedule, we regularly forget to take some time off for ourselves. We are often too tired to do the things we enjoy and we are rarely motivated to get more physically active. Not only is working out extremely beneficial for your body, but…
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10 New Mother Myths, Debunked
Let’s discover some common mother myths you have heard before: ‘Thinking about heading out in your highest heels for a night on the town? Don’t do it; you’ll risk your baby being born cross-eyed.‘ ‘Stop eating those strawberries! They cause strawberry skin blemishes on your newborn.‘ ‘Baby born with a flock of hair? It’s because you…
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Bleeding during pregnancy – What does it mean?
Bleeding during pregnancy can be just about the most worrisome thing to experience, and as unnerving as it may be, as many as one in four mums will experience blood loss to some degree. Although any bleeding at any time during pregnancy needs to be taken seriously, and professional advice should be sought, thankfully, it…