Baby massage can be used to alleviate and treat minor ailments such as colds and digestive issues.It is not designed to replace traditional medicine but rather to work alongside, to be complementary. If conditions are...

I've been seeing a lot of flat heads in little babies recently and felt a blogpost was long overdue!You're probably wondering what are these flat heads and how can I fix it?I'm going to introduce...

I got sent a great teething device by a lady, Julia, who lives on a cattle station 3 hours out of Townsville in Queensland. Her friend in the UK had developed it and she'd found...

I get asked a lot about what to do with a baby who is constipated.First, it's important to check if your baby is really constipated or if they're just making a big fuss when they're...

Sophie is a premature baby and such a cutie. Her mum gave me permission to use her photos to talk about a really common issue - Umbilical hernia.Premature babies tend to be more likely to get...

Congenital Dislocation of the Hip (CDH) is a really important issue.It occurs in around 1:100 births. It is more common in breech and large for gestational age babies. There may also be a heredity component...

A lot of my blogs come out of chance conversations with you parents out there!And here's one that came from Angela, mummy of Beau 10 months.We were talking about his waking up in pain and...

It's almost summer Down Under and time to think about protecting our skin from that harsh Aussie sun. But do we think about our eyes and the eyes of our babies in the same way? How many...

Separation of your baby's umbilical cord The umbilical cord doesn't always separate and fall away as it should.When a baby is born the umbilical cord is clamped with a plastic cord clamp to prevent bleeding and...

This is not quite a cat in the hat blog or an Agatha Christie mystery but something stopped me in my tracks last week and got me scratching my head! A cute little baby called Kit came...