Baby Bottles are a Breastfeeding Mum’s Best Friend

To celebrate courageous and caring mums everywhere, this week marks World Breastfeeding Week. Encouraging mums globally to breastfeed their newborns and improve the health of babies around the world, it commemorates the Innocenti Declaration of the World health Organisation and UNICEF. This sought to protect, promote and support breastfeeding. Baby Products such as breast pumps, sterilisers, bottles and teats also join in this crusade to ensure the best health of mother and baby is made possible.

WHO recommends that infants start breastfeeding within one hour of life, and are exclusively breastfed for six months, with timely introduction of adequate, safe and properly fed complementary foods while continuing for up to two years of age or beyond. Baby Bottles can be particularly useful in achieving these objectives as they allow mums who wish to breastfeed to express milk when it is convenient for them, and yet their babies can enjoy this stored milk exactly when they demand it.

The advantages of being able to express milk and store it for later consumption by your little one can be invaluable. It means that not only can Dad join in the incredible bonding experience of feeding a suckling child, but that he or other care-givers can take over one or more feeds and give mum some welcome time-off. Baby Feeding Bottles can thus be invaluable to letting mum have a ‘night off’ from the nocturnal feeding schedule or even just get out of home for a welcome respite.

This is also an important benefit for mothers wishing to return to work. Avent Bottles, in combination with any one of their high-quality Phillips Avent breast pumps, allow working mums to balance all of their personal and family needs with ease. Practical Baby Gifts can thus include the whole array of breastfeeding support equipment. A hamper of products which include everything a working mum needs can form the perfect present from colleagues or employer, showing that the mum is welcome back as soon as she is comfortable to return. She will surely appreciate having this helping hand to accommodate her needs, as well as those of the baby.

Baby Sterilising Bottles also form part of this solution for easy and continued breastfeeding. Making the move to expressed milk means that hygiene of equipment is a new concern. It does not however have to be onerous. The Milton method is not only the oldest, but the most trusted and simplest system.

As baby grows, and as solid food is introduced, Baby Teats & Cups start to play a role in the nutrition of your little one. Look out for the right diameter hole in teats to ensure the correct flow for the age of your baby, whether they continue on breast milk or if formula is used.