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I’d been mulling over this idea for a blog post for a while: an exploration of the things we do whilst breastfeeding. When I fed my first baby, it was generally from a position of comfort – on a bed, surrounded by an improbable number of pillows, in untroubled, civilized silence, as often as not. [...]

A senior midwife has attacked the growing trend for ‘foetus parties’ where parents-to-be hire scanning machines in order to be able to show off their unborn babies in the womb. Professor Cathy Warwick says that this is an irresponsible act by parents-to-be, who are turning a medical diagnosis tool into a source of entertainment, and [...]

When I was doing my daily “guilty pleasure” Daily Mail trawl for celebrity tittle-tattle earlier in the week, I encountered a story about new research into ye olde breast vs bottle debate, detailing some research which had apparently discovered that breast fed babies are crankier and harder to settle than their bottle fed contemporaries. Now [...]

It’s been quite a while since the FV blog was updated, but in the spirit of the new year we are dusting it down, blowing away the virtual cobwebs and starting afresh for 2012.

Well I’ve safely made it through the first week back at work after maternity leave, and whilst there have been a few downs along with the ups, I think that the children are adapting pretty well. I’m also coping better than I thought I would at the outset, I guess it’s true what they say [...]