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The document provides guidance for grandparents on how to support new parents, emphasizing the importance of breastfeeding and healthy feeding practices for infants. It outlines key recommendations such as breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months, avoiding sugary drinks, and introducing solid foods around six months. Additionally, it highlights the role of grandparents in encouraging healthy habits and caring for other children to support new parents.

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Grandparents

The document provides guidance for grandparents on how to support new parents, emphasizing the importance of breastfeeding and healthy feeding practices for infants. It outlines key recommendations such as breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months, avoiding sugary drinks, and introducing solid foods around six months. Additionally, it highlights the role of grandparents in encouraging healthy habits and caring for other children to support new parents.

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Department of Health

18
Healthy food and
drinks for your
grandkids

Growing Strong Feeding you and your baby


Great state. Great opportunity.
Grandparents play a really important role in supporting
new parents.
Before Baby is born, Grandparents can help by:
• Encouraging Mum to eat healthy and be active.
• Talking to Mum and dad about deciding how Baby will
be fed, before they are born. Breastfeeding is best for
Baby and for Mum.

• Taking care of other kids


sometimes so Mum can rest.
• Talking to your heath worker
for other suggestions on how
to support Mum.

Some information that was


given to grandparents and their
families is different to what they
may receive now. This is
because more information
is available about the
healthiest way to feed
babies and children.

1
drinks for your grandk
food and ids
Healthy

Breastfeeding
Breast is best for Baby – and for Mum. A newborn baby
needs to feed very often, day and night.

The more ofte


Ba by feeds, n
more milk M the
um
will ma ke.

Breastmilk y
ab Babies should be
will provide Bing breastfed until one year
with everyth til of age and longer if

they need un Mum and Baby want to.

six months.

2
Top–up feeds/ Ba by does
comp feeds need ‘top-u n’t
p’
They can interfere with
breastfeeding and cause or ‘co mp’ fe feeds
Mum’s milk supply with formu eds
to drop off. la o r
cows’ milk.

Big ba bies
don’t need
r
‘top-up’ feeds o
ea rly solids.

Big babies
Baby needs only
breastmilk until
around six months old.

3
drinks for your grandk
food and ids
Healthy

Growth spurts
Breastfed babies have growth spurts when they just
want to feed all the time.

Mu m still
ilk
has enough m feed
o
but will need t for
more often
a few days.

4
Formula feeding
If Baby does not have breastmilk, they will need to have
an infant formula until 12 months old.

Follow the instructions on the can.


• Don’t put in extra to build Baby up.
• Don’t use less to save money.
• Don’t mix baby cereal or other
foods into the formula.
• Only use bottles for breastmilk,
formula or water.
• Expressed breastmilk can be
added into the formula.

5
drinks for your grandk
food and ids
Healthy

Fruit juice and sugary


drinks
Fruit juice, sugary tea and
other sugary drinks will
rot Baby’s teeth. Don’t
give Baby sugary
drinks from a bottle
or from a cup.

Cows’ milk or
powdered milk
While Baby is young,
cow’s milk and powdered
milk can hurt Baby’s
tummy, give them weak
blood and put a strain on
their kidneys.
Baby can have cows’ milk
or powdered milk to drink
after one year old.

6
When to start first foods

Baby will need


to start solid food at
around six months.
Baby will still
need breastmilk
as well.

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