Supporting mums in prison and whose babies are in care to breastfeed has benefits for mums, their children and wider society.
- Adjunct Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
New research shows a six-fold increase in sales of infant formula prescribed for babies with cows’ milk protein allergy in the UK, despite no evidence of an increase in the incidence of the allergy.
Discussion has been rife on why toddler formula is being sent to China, causing shortages here, but the greater question of why so many Australian parents buy it at all has been largely ignored.
New and expectant parents are among the biggest losers in this year’s budget. From July 2016 primary carers will lose access to government paid parental leave if their workplace also provides leave.
Australian private schools are increasingly taking their senior students to volunteer in orphanages, but they’re doing more harm than good.
Home education has had a massive rise in popularity in Australia in recent years, with increases of 100% in six years in Victoria, 50% in two years in the ACT, 50% in eight years in South Australia, and…
Alongside this week’s announcement of a free trade deal between China and Australia came reports of Gina Rinehart’s investment in a Queensland dairy operation to supply infant formula to China. Australia’s…
Infants should be exclusively breastfed until six months of age and solids should be introduced at “around six months”, according to official new infant feeding guidelines released today. The guidelines…
Wet nursing, where a woman other than the mother breastfeeds a baby, is a practice as old as history itself. In modern times, the availability of refrigeration and breast pumps has enabled women to also…
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