What Every New Mum Needs to Know About Weight Loss

It takes nine months to grow a baby. Yet women often start thinking about ‘snapping back’ into shape within a few months or even a few weeks after birth. It drives me mad - the pressure and judgement and pure expectation that a woman can ‘get back’ to what she looked like before. Your body has likely changed beyond recognition, and may not return. It has done something amazing. Once you’ve had a chance to heal and recover, rebuild and restore, then, and only then, can you start thinking about losing excess fat. Here’s what every new mother needs to know about losing weight postpartum.

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Set Yourself Up for Breastfeeding Success

Breastfeeding challenges can take new mums by surprise; they are simply not prepared for how difficult breastfeeding can be. For many women who do stop breastfeeding early, much of the time the problem doesn’t lie in their beautiful body’s ability to produce breastmilk, but rather in lack of support and lack of knowledge of where to access good quality information, advice and support.

breastfeeding, postnatalTasha D'Cruz25 November 2019breastfeeding, postnatalComment

5 Foods to Eat After Giving Birth

In many traditional cultures around the world, after a baby is born, a mother is nourished and nurtured by her female relatives for at least a month after giving birth. We’ve lost this culture in the western world; it’s no wonder we have one of the highest rates of postnatal depression when the expectations to bounce back is so realistic.

postnatal, batchcookTasha D'Cruz11 October 2019food, postnatal, heal, repairComment

Top 5 foods for breastfeeding

Getting into the habit of eating a variety of colourful food before baby arrives makes it less of an effort in those tired, busy days of being a mother. And the better you are able to feed yourself, the better you are able to feed your children as they grow, setting an example and paving a way for a whole future generation that eats well.

breastfeeding, postnatalTasha D'Cruz4 October 2019breastfeeding, postnatal, food, nutrients, nutritional therapyComment

What to Eat for Breastfeeding Success

One of the most common questions pregnant and new mums ask me is what to eat to boost breastmilk supply. Although a seemingly innocuous question, what underlies it is doubt in their body’s ability to know how and how much milk to produce.

breastfeeding, postnatalTasha D'Cruz27 September 2019nutrients, food, breastfeeding, postnatal, new mumComment