When I arrived at ‘Melanie’s’ house (not her real name), she and two week old baby Liam were crying.

Melanie was exhausted and stressed about her  Read more

Unrealistic expectations, pressure to be the perfect mum and too many ‘rules’ are making mums overthink – and blame themselves when they don’t have a ‘good’ baby.

The first question every new mum is asked will be ‘is he a good baby?’ This will be followed by, ‘how...

Galacta-what?! No, it’s not an autocorrect error, a new kid’s show featuring an intergalactic superhero, or some kind of mythical lactating goblin! Derived from ancient Greek language where ‘galacta’ means milk and ‘algogos’ mean leading, a galactagogue is a substance th...

Most of us know about and are aware of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. There is third type though; gestational diabetes which isn’t as well known, but it seems to becoming more prevalent.Gestational Diabetes (GD) occurs in almost 10% of Australian pregnant women. GD is diabe...

We often hear about the 4th trimester as being a time for babies to adapt to the important transition from womb to world. We don’t hear as often how vital this time is to honour the transition for mothers as a time of healing and adjusting to their intense new role of nu...

One of the most common pregnancy symptoms most women, if not all, will experience is new or different food cravings.

If you ask any pregnant woman what she is craving, she is likely to be craving one or two particular foods or groups of food. Now be it wishful thi...

Mum question:I have spent the first few months of my daughter’s life feeding her to sleep and it works well but now I’m worried I’ll be doing forever! I am starting back at work in a couple of months so I would like to start gradually changing this h...