World Breastfeeding Week runs every year from the 1st to the 7th August. This year’s theme for World Breastfeeding Week is Protect Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility. ‘A shared responsibility’ means it’s up to all of us – from breastfeeding parents, to peer support groups, IBCLCs, maternity nurses, GPs, health visitors, nurses, paediatricians, midwives, businesses, employers,… Continue reading How to Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week 2021
Here are 5 breastfeeding books recommended by IBCLC & Infant Feeding Specialist Shel Banks and IBCLC & Tongue-tie Specialist Sarah Oakley THE POSITIVE BREASTFEEDING BOOK: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO FEED YOUR BABY WITH CONFIDENCE BY PROFESSOR AMY BROWN Synopsis – The Positive Breastfeeding Book cuts through the anecdotes, giving you clear, no-judgement, non-preachy, evidence-based information to help you make the right decisions… Continue reading 5 Breastfeeding Books Recommended by IBCLCs
Watch this video with Infant Feeding Specialist & Lactation Consultant Shel Banks who shares insights into the risks associated with overfeeding babies.
Today we’d like to focus on how we can be kind to ourselves, and how we can be kind to our colleagues and friends working in the childcare industry.
Starting a new job as a nanny will be hugely exciting, giving you the opportunity to nurture a future generation and get to know a new family. However, before you start you need to make sure you are covered as an employee.
What we do know is that the time change can have a more significant impact on children who are not well-rested, resulting in crankiness, night waking, short naps and early morning waking.
“Imagine waking up each day to a different job, a new child to get to know, a new location to explore – a new family to help with their childcare needs. It’s kind of like being Mary Poppins for the day, every day – or at least that’s how our team members here at British Nannies explain how they feel about their job as an Emergency Nanny!” British Nannies, 2017
“Touching is the first communication a baby receives,” says Frederick Leboyer, author of Loving Hands. “The first language of its development is through the skin.”
5-year old children in the UK are consuming their body weight in sugar every year, George Osborne reports
It is important for us to be aware of the potential dangers around our own home and to remove them as far as we possible can – tabletops and cupboards are no longer beyond reach for the little explorers!
