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Milk production

Dear all.  I have spent this week with women battling their breastfeeding challenges.  Mostly good news but many interesting subjects.  It reminds me a little bit of when woman are pregnant and they keep coming into Annerley after their checkups, half with the news that their baby is suddenly too small, half with babies that [...]

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Mastitis – blocked milk ducts

…i just wanted to write these words as a reminder to all breastfeeding mothers because I am now sitting here at home trying to rest and recover after a blocked milk duct that i failed to diagnose myself with in time!  I have literally spent the last few weeks warning all the mothers that I [...]

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…some common baby q&a

Is it true that newborn babies only see black and white, and no colors? To a certain extend this is correct.  The eyes of newborn babies are not fully developed and for a while after they are born they can not fully see colors.  They also cannot focus far away so only things around 10 [...]

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Acupuncture for pregnant women and new mothers

Dear all. I am writing these words from Iceland, where I am at the moment, studying acupuncture for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. This has been a very interesting education for me, which started earlier this year and is undoubtedly going to take some time to get advanced in. So far I have treated quite a [...]

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