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Newborn crying is inevitable, and it can overwhelm and stress parents. Newborns can cry for up to two hours – or even longer. Crying is the only way your newborn knows how to communicate. Sometimes to work out what they want or need is easy but sometimes, it can be hard to decipher. Trying to understand the reason for their crying and ways to comfort them might help to cope with the stress. Our in-house nurse, Sister Susan, of 46 years of experience in maternity wards has pro

Labour is not a walk in the park, for some it may be as easy as just pushing & steady breathing but for some it can be really tough physically & mentally. Sister Susan recounts "What I am about to relate here has nothing to do with breastfeeding or anything close to that subject. I'm recalling my days as a student midwife in England. To complete the course, the curriculum stated that we as student midwives, must complete a certain number of deliveries and VE (vaginal examinat

Did you know that there is a device in the market called The Father’s Nursing Assistant? It is a wearable device that resembles a woman’s breast and is equipped with a tank for milk. The device allows our fathers to feed babies as mothers would, and will promote skin-to-skin contact between fathers and infants. Sister Susan shared on an incident when she was working in Australia. One of their little patients could not be breastfed as the mother was not able to visit due to he

Today, Sister Susan is back to share with us another one of her many interesting & educational stories she had encountered back in her nursing work in the Middle East. “I was working in one of the baby friendly hospitals in the Middle East and had witnessed an amazing instance of skin to skin contact between a young father and his baby.” The father was eager to leave the unit after greeting the baby. So, we asked him to get in on skin-to-skin care for his baby son after detai

Sister Susan, is back today to share with us another interesting encounter back in her days working in a Neonatal ICU ward (NICU). It is indeed rare for one to associate breast milk with cow’s milk; when it is known that newborns are 100% breastfed by their mummies. So how does cow’s milk come into the picture? Sister Susan recalled “Years ago, when I was working in the NICU, I came across a breastfed baby with a dairy allergy. I remembered him being fussy and crying most of