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Feeding your baby

All you need to know about getting ready to feed your baby, including how to do it and common problems

Preparing to feed your baby

  1. Preparing for breastfeeding before your baby is born
  2. Deciding to bottle feed your baby from birth
  3. Feeding your baby: the first few days

Breastfeeding: the early days

  1. Your first breast milk - colostrum
  2. Your baby's first feed
  3. Positioning and attachment
  4. How to tell if your newborn is getting enough breast milk
  5. The importance of breastfeeding
  6. Breastfeeding during pregnancy
  7. Breastfeeding after a caesarean section
  8. Alcohol and breastfeeding
  9. Breastfeeding with flat or inverted nipples
  10. Expressing and pumping
  11. Breastfeeding twins or triplets
  12. Common myths

Bottle feeding: the early days

  1. How to prepare equipment
  2. Preparing baby formula
  3. How to give a bottle
  4. Types of formula milk
  5. Using a bottle to give expressed milk
  6. Adding to a bottle
  7. Bottle feeds away from home

Combination feeding

  1. Combination feeding: bottle and breast

Premature babies

  1. Feeding your premature baby: the first few days
  2. Feeding options and supplements for your premature baby
  3. Feeding and monitoring your premature baby at home