When did you last get over 600 likes on your Facebook page? Never reached that number? Well neither have I. But when Faith and Ally announced Felix, my grandson’s birth…

In the Chinese culture there is no more critical time to build up health of mother and baby than the first 40 days after birth, otherwise known as the postpartum…

In your culture are there special foods for new mothers?  Ginger vinegar pork hock, is a much loved post pregnancy stew in the confinement or the postpartum period.This stew is consumed…

Fenugreek is traditionally used to promote the secretion and flow of milk.   A spice commonly used in Indian curries, to my surprise, it is also found in Greek and Egyptian food.  I…

It’s a heat wave in Sydney – 42 degrees C outside, and not much different in the lactation clinic. If these seven mothers and their newborn didn’t really need help…

Maya Angelou understood grandparenting. In her book, I know why the caged bird sings, she wrote how she was brought up principally by her grandma from the age of 3.…