Your baby’s appearance may be a shock.

Just as breastfeeding does not make you a good mother, bottlefeeding does not make you a bad one.

The breast is an amazingly effiNinemonths.com.au | Breast Feeding | Baby, Breast, Milk, May, Baby’scient organ. Your body has been preparing for lactation since shortly after conception

Information on the contentious issue of whether to feed you baby by breast or bottle.

For some women expressing milk can be an effective way of planning ahead, however, for others it proves to be difficult and frustrating task.

Most newborns will feed six to eight times in 24 hours. But some babies will be content with five feeds over this period.

Your baby’s diet is forever evolving. Discovering strange and new food tastes and textures is an important part of your child’s development and can effect your child’s feeding patterns for life.

Teaching good eating habits begins as early as breastfeeding.

FACTS: Fertilisation occurs when one of the millions of sperm penetrates the outer layers of the egg and fuses with its nucleus.

FACTS: The baby is now floating in the amniotic fluid attached by a string of blood vessels that eventually forms the umbilical cord.