Often I am told that my baby has very good head control for her/his age. This happens when they are usually very small less than 3 months. My GP mentioned that this maybe another one of the many benefits of breastfeeding. As the baby must use her/his head to root for the breast they develop the neck muscles. After 5 years of breastfeeding I am so glad I have a new reason to be happy.

Can you spot the bottle of champagne in this photo of Zoe?

To vaccinate or not to vaccinate that is the question?

Many people ask me if I have vaccinated the children. They ask me because I am a physician and mother and because they consider me a special case as I have had 5 home births. The choice to have a home birth of course has nothing to do with vaccinations.
I have vaccinated all my children.

Parents are in a tough position as we have too much information available and not enough good filters.
Parents who are thinking of not vaccinating often quote the link with autism and I never refute this concern.
I start on solid ground :
BUT why do we have vaccines?
Do you know what diseases they do treat?
Do you know about Polio? Risk? Incidence? etc.
If you are choosing for your child not to be vaccinated you are opening them up to disease risks and you need to know what these are before you opt out.

The diseases there are vaccines available for have known identifiable causes and good confirmed statistics to go with them. So you can start here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine
If your child gets a disease that is entirely preventable you will have nobody to turn to.
Not to take time to inform yourself would be terribly expensive in the long run.

This is Zoë Anaïs our girl asleep after breastfeeding. And you can see my Nurse-well in the background of this photo. "As much as my baby drinks, I drink" should be my moto. 

She was born 8lbs 14oz and after two weeks weighted in at 9lbs 3oz 

I, on the other hand, have lost all my pregnancy weight and am still eating chocolates from Zurich my favorite.