Health

skin-to-skin contact

Skin-to-skin contact is a way of holding your baby right after birth and can be done with anyone who cares for your baby. It’s when a mother has her naked newborn baby against her bare chest. Skin-to-skin contact promotes healthy brain development, improves parent-child attachment relationships, optimizes your baby’s physical…

expressed breast milk

What is expressed breast milk? What is expressed breast milk? Most mothers of newborn babies would have heard of it but may wonder what it is and why they should use it. More commonly referred to as EBM, expressed baby milk is when breast milk is extracted from the breasts…