BREASTFEEDING

Breastfeeding can have many benefits for you and your baby. It meets all of your babies nutritional needs for the first 6 months, it is convenient, helps you to return to your pre-pregnancy shape and it's free. Breastmilk provides your baby with protection against allergies, some diseases and immunological conditions. You will never run out of breastmilk, your body works on the "supply and demand" principle. Which means the more your baby needs, the more you produce ... well done Mum.

The intimacy between Mum and baby during feeding times, also provides quality bonding time and can be a real joy. A great resource and heaps of support is available from your local Breastfeeding Association and Baby Health Clinic.

WHERE IS THY MOTHER

This is why a new sibling can’t be trusted - not even for a minute.


A three-month-old baby is expected to survive after falling from a second floor apartment in East Dallas Friday night.

Police believe that the infant’s four-year-old brother dropped or pushed the baby off a balcony. Investigators were still trying to sort out what happened.

The baby was taken to Children’s Medical Center Dallas for treatment and was expected to survive. The mother of the children was home at the time of the incident. w

Childhood Doesn't Wait

I was sitting on a bench
while in a nearby mall,
when I noticed a young mother
with two children who were small.


The youngest one was whining,
"Pick me up," I heard him beg
but the mother's face grew angry
as the child clung to her leg.


"Don't hang on to me," she shouted
as she pushed his hands away,
I wish I'd had the courage
to go up to her and say:


"The time will come too quickly
when those little arms that tug,
won't ask for you to hold them
or won't freely give a hug.


"The day will sneak up subtly
just as it did with me,
when you can't recall the last time
that your child sat on your knee.


"Like those sacred, pre-dawn feedings
when we cherished time alone.
Our babies grow and leave behind
those special times we've known.


"So when your child comes to you
with a book that you can share
or asks that you would tuck him in
and help him say his prayer ...


"When he comes to sit and chat
or would like to take a walk,
before you answer that you can't
`cause there's no time to talk.


"Remember what all parents learn
so many times too late,
that years go by too quickly
and that childhood doesn't wait.


"Take every opportunity,
if one should slip away
Reach hard to get it back again,
don't wait another day."


I watched that mother walk away.
Her children followed near.
I hope she'll pick them up
before her chances disappear.