Mums Express

16/08/2026

14/08/2026

Please reach out for support and talk about your feelings with your partner, trusted family and friends. Parenting a baby is a 24/7 job that takes an enormous amount of time and energy, so it can feel overwhelming at times. It's important to regularly take some time for yourself, to 'recharge' or 'reset' and feel more like yourself.
Asking for help can feel difficult, but it's worth it. Also if you or your partner feel like every day is a struggle that is not getting easier, please
- talk to your health care provider,
- call the PANDA helpline 1300 726 306 (Mon - Sat) or
- visit the PANDA website.

13/08/2026

Babies love to contact nap! When parents snuggle with their baby, both release oxytocin which is deeply relaxing...while mum or dad's body provides warmth, the rhythms of heart beat and breathing, and security. Even better, that close contact with a breastfeeding/expressing mum enable's mum's body to provide personalised immune protection for her baby!
Many babies sleep soundly when in close contact with their parents - this is not setting up bad habits, but instead teaches babies that they are safe and loved.

08/08/2026

Do you know anyone expecting twins? Let them know about this workshop specifically designed for parents of multiples where they will get valuable insights on the feeding of twins, including preterm birth, care of small babies and establishing milk supply in the early weeks.

🤰🏼Breastfeeding Workshops for Expectant Parents of Multiples🤱

We are delighted to confirm Dr Sharon Perrella for our upcoming workshop in September.

Sharon is a Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Sharon has extensive experience in caring for breastfeeding families in neonatal nurseries and in the community, and is now also a lactation researcher at The University of Western Australia.

The workshop is designed specifically for multiples families and will cover the following topics:

⚪️ Establishing a healthy milk supply
⚪️ Introduction to expressing and lactation aids
⚪️ Logistics of feeding two babies – single vs tandem feeding, scheduled vs demand
⚪️ Managing the feeding of ‘early term’ and ‘preterm’ infants
⚪️ Supporting the breastfeeding mum of multiples

Our breastfeeding workshops are small limited ticket events, open to both MBAWA members and non-members. We have dropped the price for our members with registration fee now $30 and $70 for non-members.

Link to register: https://thq.fyi/se/787d59e3cb39

06/08/2026

On Wednesday Sharon was interviewed by Jo Trilling for the ABC Perth Afternoons program, where she discussed screening for health conditions during pregnancy that may impact breastfeeding outcomes. This approach ensures that women receive individualised information and support, and a plan for if difficulties arise in those early weeks.
To listen to the interview go to the link below - the interview starts at 1h 11min into the program.

For women that have had breast surgery, have PCOS or gestational diabetes or a high BMI and low confidence around breastfeeding, an antenatal lactation consultation and plan can make all the difference. Please reach out if you would like to book an online or face to face appointment

Keeping you entertained and informed whether you're at work, on the school run or at home.

05/08/2026

It’s been a hectic week celebrating World Breastfeeding Week …
2 undergraduate lactation workshops (assisted by 2 beautiful mums and their babies)
1 lecture to neonatal nursing students
1 radio interview…
and 2 webinars tomorrow
While it’s important to understand how breastfeeding works from a human biology perspective, it’s equally important to highlight what makes it work from a practical point of view.
What has kept you going on difficult days?

01/08/2026

Today marks the start of World Breastfeeding Week 1-7 August, with this year’s theme “Breastfeeding for a Sustainable Start to Life: Strengthen What Works.”

Support from a partner, family, friends and the wider community plays an important role in giving mums and babies the time they need to establish breastfeeding, recover from birth, and have extended contact naps.

I love this video showing a newborn baby snuggling and settling on mum’s chest while she rests…while dad “K” isn’t in the picture, this beautiful and important time wouldn’t be possible without his support, taking on all the household responsibilities, caring for their toddler, keeping mum fed and hydrated and encouraging her every step of the way.

A big shout out to “K” and to all the partners out there who ‘strengthen what works’ to give mum and baby the best start to breastfeeding! 💗💙

01/08/2026

The all-through-the night breastfeeds, the contact naps, snuggling that baby who just won’t settle in the cot…it’s all important work, building trust and strong roots for the future. You’ve got this mama 🙌

We’ve got it backwards.

We treat dependence like a problem to be solved, something to wean our children off as fast as we can, and then we wonder why so many grown adults can’t lean on anyone at all.

But a child who’s allowed to depend deeply doesn’t stay dependent. That’s the part nobody tells you. The leaning in is what builds the letting go. The leaning in is also vulnerable and so we need to make it safe.

Dr. Vanessa Lapointe puts it perfectly: “It is out of the gift of deep dependence that true independence emerges.”

So when your toddler wants to be carried, when your four or eight or twelve year old asks you to lie down with them, when your child falls apart at the school gate, none of it means you’ve made them too attached.

It means the roots are growing strong and deep.

Quietly. Under the surface. For years. Long before anyone can see the fruit.

You’re not spoiling them. You’re not creating a clingy child. You’re doing the slow, invisible, unglamorous work that most of the world has forgotten to value.

Trust the order Mother Nature wrote. It knows what it’s doing.

💛 Save this for the day someone tells you they’re too old to need you this much.

And tell me how this lands for you, what it stirs, bring me the messy and the raw.👇

25/07/2026

BABIES ARE MESSY (AND THAT'S OK)
From a cute little spill to a tsunami overflow, most babies regularly bring up milk. This typically doesn't mean that baby has over-fed or there is a medical problem, and here is why...
The gastro-oesophageal sphincter, or 'valve' that stops the stomach contents from coming back up, is immature in young babies. Combine that with a maturing baby's increased activity and baby lying on their back, and you can see that it is easy for some milk to flow or "reflux" back up that short distance from a baby's stomach to their mouth (and nose sometimes!)
While a newborn sleeps a lot and doesn't spill much milk, in the following weeks and months spills and spews become increasingly common as baby is more mobile. If your baby is mostly settled and isn't bothered by the spill, overflow, or spew, and if their weight gains are tracking normally, you can consider this a laundry problem and not a medical problem.

24/07/2026

“If you are finding parenting hard, it doesn’t mean you are incompetent” Some great perspectives shared here…