On this freezing Adelaide Winter morning, I’m sure a lot of us a dreaming of chasing the sun to somewhere warm. Travel provides an amazing sensory experience for your baby, but travel prior to children is certainly a different experience! The team at Adelaide Mums and Babies Clinic have put together some tips to hopefully make travelling with your baby and toddler a little bit smoother! 1. No matter how you feed your baby, we suggest feeding them on both take off and landing to assist with any eustachian tube dysfunction from altitude changes (that popping and cracking in the ears!). Staff on ..read more

It’s back to school time and this year my daughter is starting school. Starting school is such a big milestone and a bittersweet time for parents. I’ve definitely felt all of the emotions over the last few weeks. I think the thought that has stayed with me though, is how my parenting and my relationship with my daughter is about to change. Suddenly it feels like the last five and a half years have gone so quickly. Of course this isn’t the case, some days were VERY long and some stages were really challenging. I think realising that I’m moving into a different stage of parenting now, where my d ..read more

World Breastfeeding Week 1st – 7th August 2023 This year the theme for will focus on Breastfeeding and Work. It can be daunting when considering returning to work whilst still breastfeeding, but it is definitely possible. There are several things to consider to determine what will work best for you and your baby. We suggest that you talk to your employer about your breastfeeding needs before you return to work. It is against the law in Australia to discriminate against a woman on the basis that she is breastfeeding. Employers must make reasonable attempts to accommodate your needs under the Fe ..read more

My daughter was 5 weeks old, and we’d managed the brave feat as first time parents of making it out of the house to a family member’s engagement party. As I sat feeding her and chatting with the various people who came up to admire my beautiful baby, someone made a passing comment. “Breastfeeding always made me feel really sad, just for a couple of minutes.” I didn’t think much of it, but later on the way home I mulled it over. Wasn’t that how I felt every time Ada first latched? Not quite. I would have described it as a feeling of overwhelming dread, like something very, very bad was about to ..read more

It can be hard for parents to recognize and identify if their toddler is meeting their speech and language milestones when they are otherwise typically thriving and developing. Around 12 months your child should have 1-2 words and recognize their name as well as follow simple instructions. We would recommend that by the age of 2 children have over 50 words in their vocabulary and be using 2 words together in a sentence. Its hard to keep track of all the words your children use throughout the day so I recommend starting a list to keep track. Of course at 2 some of the sounds in the English lang ..read more

Dr Alice Roberts-Thomson is one of our fabulous NDC accredited GPs. We love sharing our own stories with patients about our struggles with breastfeeding or parenting. You can also read Dr Briony and Dr Rhiannon’s stories as some of our first published Blog Posts. Here is Dr Alice’s Journey This is a rather long and raw account about my own transition to motherhood. I appreciate that this may be triggering for some people who have experienced birth trauma or infant loss so please be mindful when reading. This is my story – I look forward to hearing yours. I had a very ‘shiny’ idea of what becom ..read more

Below is a social media post from 28th February. Today is Rare Disease Day. We have a very special post, from a very special doctor, Dr Alice Roberts-Thomson: ‘We have a diagnosis’ – It’s 5.30pm on a Tuesday. The geneticist and I have been playing phone tag between our busy work schedules and we’ve finally caught up with each other. No beating around the bush – ‘We have a diagnosis’ he says. It’s the words you never think you’ll hear. The words you kind of want to hear, but also don’t. An end to so many questions, but the start of so many more. I’m speechless. My eldest daughter is 4 y ..read more

Endometriosis is an extremely common condition, with research suggesting that it affects 1 in 10 women of reproductive age. In light of Endometriosis Awareness Month, the month of March, this blog post aims to provide a summary of the role of diet in endometriosis management. Before we delve into the topic of food, let’s firstly explain the condition itself. What is endometriosis?  Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease which is progressive, meaning it tends to worsen over time and requires ongoing management. This condition is characterised by the growth of endometrium-like tis ..read more

A common concern we encounter is that of babies not gaining weight as expected. A beautiful Mum , Eve, has generously documented her journey of providing extra milk to her baby using a technique that is not commonly discussed – a supplemental nursing system (“SNS” or “supply line). This is a means of supplementing or “topping up” baby with additional milk whilst they are feeding at the breast. In this case fit and hold had been optimised but baby Hazel was still not gaining weight. Here is their story: “Shortly after Hazel was born with the support of the regular home visits with FMC midwifery ..read more

We are very grateful to one of our families for sharing their story. Big thanks to M and her beautiful boy. Those first few weeks after bringing bubs home is meant to be a time you can soak up and enjoy all those newborn snuggles but for us, at around 6 weeks we had a lot more to take in than we ever expected. In 2021, we welcomed our second born at a healthy 3.15kg, induced due to pre-eclampsia at 38 weeks (much like our first who was delivered at 37 wks for the same reason). Aside from some gurgles and strange sounding breathing that first night (which the paediatrician cleared him of the ne ..read more