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Health Education Resources


A number of resources are available to download and order from the HealthEd website (www.healthed.govt.nz) including:

Your Pregnancy/Tō Haputanga
Guide to being pregnant, giving birth, the first few weeks, and the roles and responsibilities of lead maternity carers

Breastfeeding and Working
This pamphlet sets out the advantages of breastfeeding, explains how to manage breastfeeding at work, including how to express breastmilk, and offers several brief stories in which women describe how they managed breastfeeding after returning to work.

Breastfeeding Your Baby
Clear, simple suggestions cover the nursing relationship, why breast milk is a baby’s best food, different ways to hold the baby, how to ensure the baby is on the breast in the best way, frequency of feeds, and further help. Reissued as a HealthEd resource.

Breastfeeding - You can Do It
This 8-page booklet covers how breast milk is produced, and breast care while feeding. Now also includes a section on breastfeeding two or more babies.

Eating for Healthy Breastfeeding women / Nga Kai Totika Ma te Ukaipo
A 12-page booklet giving food advice for breastfeeding women, includes information about allergies and colic.

Eating for Healthy Babies and Toddlers: From birth to two years old/Te Kai Totika mo te Hunga Kohungahunga
This 14-page illustrated booklet gives food information for children from birth to two years old, covering breastfeeding, formula feeding, fluid intake, solids, variety, and meal ideas.

Feeding your Baby Infant Formula
A booklet for use by health practitioners in advising parents and caregivers who have decided to partially or completely formula feed a baby.

Starting Solids

When You Drink, So Does Your Baby
Primarily concerned with alcohol and pregnancy, this pamphlet also covers drinking while breastfeeding

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