Your Baby

Wondering what to expect when you bring your baby home from hospital? We has the lowdown on your first fortnight with your new baby.

Do you really need to sterilise your breast pump parts or your baby’s bottles? How, and how often? What equipment do you need?

Long before your baby says her first word, you’re already communicating through baby cues

Has your baby developed a sleep issue that you’re not entirely certain how to solve? Check out these common sleep scenarios and our suggestions for sorting them out.

We explain the benefits of baby massage.

Ben Warren of holistic health and nutrition company BePure answers that age-old question asked by mums everywhere: “why am I so tired, and how can I get more energy?”

Now that your baby is here, when will you be ready to have sex again? Many new mums worry about intimacy following pregnancy.

What’s safe to do during breastfeeding, and what’s not? We set the record straight.

Newborns cry because they don’t have any other way to tell us what they need or if something is wrong. But how are you supposed to understand them when you don’t speak their language? Katie Thomas explains.

Babies may be exposed to several products at bath time, such as bath wash, shampoo, conditioner, and baby lotion every day, in addition to other chemical exposures in the home.

But when helpful strangers tell me how I must treasure everything — even when witnessing the foot stamping that occurs when I break the cheese the wrong way — all this does is compound the mother’s guilt that we/I should be doing more.

Does your baby cry and cry and cry, seemingly inconsolable? He might be suffering from reflux, says Midwife Cath in this extract from her book After the First Six Weeks.