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The many advantages of breastfeeding for you and your baby are well documented and there is no doubt it will give your baby the best possible start in life. So why do so many new mothers, who start to feed their babies in the first few days of life, end up swapping over to formula feeding?

 In this issue

• How to maintain my baby’s temperature in the winter months and where is the best place for my baby to sleep?
• What are the benefits of swaddling and are there any potential drawbacks?
• How can parents prevent their swaddled babies from overheating

It was a pleasure to join my friends at Halos N Horns at the Birmingham Baby Show in May. On their stand, I was kept busy answering your questions on baby skincare issues and a few common themes emerged. That's why we have decided to feature the answers to the most often asked questions in this newsletter. These will give you the latest advice on how to keep your children's skin in tip top condition. Here are the top four questions:....

Things to remember when buying your cuddle towel:

• Before and after carrying out any baby-care it is very important to wash your hands thoroughly - this remains the simplest and most effective way to prevent cross-infection.
• Wash your towel before you start using it - this will make....................

In this issue:

o Award winning Babycare- back to basics™ leaflet! (sponsored by HalosnHorns)
o How Dad's can be involved with breastfeeding and the benefits of skin-to-skin contact
o Plus...Competition for the cutest water babies (and dads too!)

Welcome to the seventh newsletter and the big news from TIPS is the recent launch of our brand new forum where you can join in conversations online covering all manner of parenting topics. Come along to register at: www.tipslimited.com/forum and let the chatting begin!

It's that time of year again when the schools go back and your infants come down with coughs and colds, often brought home by bigger brothers or sisters.

Watching your baby struggle for breath when they are suffering from a blocked nose (also known as upper respiratory tract infection [URTI]) is very distressing. Breastfeeding is the best way to relieve congestion. Breastfeeding also....

I am sure you will agree when I say I don't know where the time goes? It seems like yesterday I was writing the last newsletter and it is time for another one!

My aim is to give you the latest and safest advice on baby skincare and related topics combined with news of recent TIPS trials of products carried out by my independent (almost 300 in total!) parent testers. If you would like to join up then please check us out at www.tipslimited.com

Other trials just completed include the Kamillosan thermometer soother which is a simple and ingenious way of taking your baby's temperature. Read the review online plus 'results just in' on baby skincare products including two new nappy creams.

This newsletter is all about bathing which fits perfectly with the gorgeous products here...

Welcome to my fifth newsletter at Halos N Horns. I am delighted to announce that I have been invited to continue as your baby skincare advisor for another year. I hope to bring you the best advice for parents on a variety of topics plus a sneak preview of my TIPS Awards within various categories of mother, baby and child related products. I am pleased to say that my final reviews (hinted at in my last newsletter) of 44 nursing bras and tops finally went online in March at www.tipslimited.com. This trial has taken more than six months of intensive work to complete and I believe it is the largest independent trial of bras and feeding tops carried out by any organisation. The statistics, as always, are amazing with....

 

Welcome to my fourth newsletter and due to the Xmas and New Year holidays the results for my nursing bras and tops were a little slower to arrive than planned. However they are now all in so I am wading through 220 score sheets in readiness to pick the winners and write up 40 reviews!! Check out my website at www.tipslimited.com in the coming weeks for the results.

Meanwhile I have been busy sourcing what I believe are some of the most inventive baby baths and cuddle towels on the market for my next category of testing. I will come back to you later in the year with my testers favourite designs. Although my two main passions are breastfeeding and baby skincare, I am frequently asked to write about many other issues that affect new parents. So for this newsletter I am going to bring you the latest information about cup feeding. This is based on an article I wrote for the MIDIRS Digest in 2006 but it fits in nicely with the Halos'n'Horns approach....

Welcome to my third newsletter and as promised I am delighted to announce that in the recent TIPS Awards on baby skincare products Halos n Horns clocked up no less than five wins! These include:

o Best Budget - baby wash (Zingy hair and body wash)
o Best of the best  - shampoo (Berry burst shampoo/detangler)
o Best budget - shampoo (Mango Melon shampoo/conditioner)
o Best budget - baby bath (Halo baby bath)
o Best of the best - toothpaste (Toothy fruity toothpaste)

60 of my parent testers are now busy checking out the largest selection of nursing bras and tops (25 nursing bras and 12 nursing tops) on test at any one time. The results of this trial will be online at www.tipslimited.com  in the New Year so watch this space. Word is spreading and news of....
 

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