Gentle First Year: The Essential Guide to Mother and Baby Wellbeing in the First Twelve Months

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Karen MacLeod Swan. Gentle First Year: The Essential Guide to Mother and Baby Wellbeing in the First Twelve Months

Dr Gowri Motha & Karen Swan Macleod. Gentle First Year

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. The First Week

CHAPTER 2. Two to Twelve Weeks

CHAPTER 3. Three to Six Months

CHAPTER 4. Six Months to One Year

CHAPTER 5. Mother & Baby Health A–Z

Support & Resources

Further Reading

Searchable Terms

Copyright

About the Publisher

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The Essential Guide to Mother and Baby Wellbeing in the First Twelve Months

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FISH SOUP AND GREAT MILK

In the tropics where I grew up, the fisherwomen’s baskets were full of small coin-like fish, or little elongated fish or sardines. They were all grouped together under the common name podimeen, which literally means ‘small fish’. I distinctly remember my grandmother advising my mother to make a light soup of these fish and consume it daily to improve the quality and quantity of breast milk to feed my younger siblings. Perhaps you could modify a suitable recipe from your cookbooks at home to take whilst breastfeeding?

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