If your baby has an orange nose – often seen clearly in photographs – you can rest assured it is a good thing that is reversible and harmless. It also appears on the palms of hands and soles of feet and is the result of large quantities of beta carotine in their diet, which can change the pigmentation in their skin. In other words you are doing a good job of giving them healthy and nutritious foods.

The following list highlights some of the key benefits for your breastfed baby:

As a first time expectant mother, one of the first feelings I experienced after learning I was carrying twins was a twinge of disappointment that the scene I had been imagining in my head – myself in a darkened room lovingly rocking and nursing my baby – was not to be.  At that point I knew very little about breastfeeding – only that it was beneficial to babies and was therefore something I wanted to do.  I knew even less about breastfeeding twins.  In fact, I assumed that breastfeeding two babies wasn’t really even a possibility.