Booby trap: Caffeine and breastfeeding
Nursing infants don't get much say when it comes to choosing what's on the menu. If you're breastfeeding, whatever you're selecting, so is your baby. When it comes to selecting caffeine, babies are sensitive,...
Maternity bras
Maternity bras, also sometimes called nursing bras, are supportive bras with cups which clip open and closed at the front, to enable easy breastfeeding. Women who are not planning to breastfeed their baby may...
Workplace breastfeeding: A working lunch
If you've just had a baby and it's time for you to get back to the grind, then you may have some questions about how and when it is appropriate to breastfeed bubs at...
Abreast of the times: Breastfeeding and work
Times, they are a-changing. Now with full-time, career minded women in the workplace, the pressures of breastfeeding have become complicated. For the near 120,000 women returning from maternity each year, many won't be returning...
When to wear a maternity bra
When to start
There is no ‘right time’ to start wearing a maternity bra during pregnancy - when you choose to make the change is completely up to you. Breasts increase in size during pregnancy...
If you’re happy and you know it
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
(Clap your hands twice)
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
(Clap your hands twice)
If you’re happy and you know it and you really...
Twinkle, twinkle little star
Twinkle, twinkle little star
(Hold hands up, spreading fingers and then closing fists)
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
(Point up)
Like a diamond in the sky
(Make diamond shape with thumbs together and...
Incy wincy spider
Incy wincy spider climbed up the water spout
(Alternately put your left thumb on the tip of your right forefinger, then your right thumb on the tip of your left forefinger. Move your thumbs and...
Tiny Tim the turtle
I had a little turtle
(Make a “turtle" with one fist with your thumb poking out)
His name was Tiny Tim
I put him in the bath tub
To see if he could swim
(Move arms in swimming motion)
He...
I have ten fingers
I have ten fingers
(Hold up both hands, fingers spread wide)
And they all belong to me
(Point to self)
I can make them do things – would you like to see?
I can shut them up tightly
(Make fists)
I...
