This week is World Breastfeeding week. At Pelvic Health Melbourne we support all women through breastfeeding.
Here are some interesting facts on breastfeeding:
- Colostrum contains special proteins which helps to protect the newborns digestive tract from nasty bacteria and viruses.
- Breast milk contains antibodies and white blood cells which help fight bacteria and viruses. If the baby is sick, breast milk will contain more of these protective cells.
- Breastmilk changes taste and smell depending on what the mother eats and drinks.
- Breastmilk adapts to your baby’s changing needs. As the baby gets older and needs fewer feeds, the first feed tends to be thirst-quenching and the last milk of the day tends to be richer and creamier, full of good fats and proteins.
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Ashlee is an experienced Post Graduated Qualified Pelvic Health Physiotherapist. She has a special interest in Bowel health, pelvic pain, sexual pain and vulvodynia. Ashlee also enjoys helping women during their pregnancies, as well as treating men with pelvic pain and pre and post operatively from prostate cancer.
Martin brings to the Pelvic health Melbourne Team years of experience as a physiotherapist and his most recent passion is helping men with pelvic health concerns and improving pelvic health outcomes for men. He works with men before and after prostate surgery, men experiencing pelvic pain, bladder and bowel dysfuntion and erectile health including peyronies disease.
Amanda has 10 years experience as a musculoskeletal and Pelvic Health Physiotherapist. She has recently returned from 3 years work at an expert pelvic health clinic in Brisbane, where she worked with clients experiencing a broad range of pelvic health dysfunctions and developed a pelvic floor safe pilates classes for her community. Amanda’s passion is to empower her clients with up to date information to assist their pelvic health needs.
Melissa graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2008 with honours. She has since been a dedicated private practice physiotherapist in both sports/musculoskeletal physio and pelvic health. Melissa works with pelvic girdle pain, coccyx pain and pubic symphysis pain in both men and women. She also has experience with the management of incontinence, urgency, prolapse, DRAM and mastitis.
Vanessa has a special interest in childhood pelvic health, including assisting children with delayed bed wetting, bladder urgency and soiling due to emptying dysfunction.