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Should your midwife consider your newborn baby’s future sex life?

Posted on November 16, 2018January 14, 2019 by Talia Ripley

I’m not always very good at breastfeeding support – it requires lots of patience and time. I have the patience but often on a postnatal ward I’m very short on time but it’s probably the most important thing to get right for new parents. So many babies I come across have this weird instinct to…

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