Ask Our Experts: Diets and Pregnancies
Do diets affect the chances of getting pregnant? Are there foods that would boost fertility? What should I eat and don’t eat when I am trying to conceive? Globally, infertility is getting more common for various environmental and lifestyle reasons.…
Ask Our Experts: Crying Baby
My newborn keeps crying all through the night, resulting in my partner and I not getting any sleep at all. What can we do to get our baby to sleep throughout the night? All babies cry and some babies do…
Ask Our Experts: Food and Pregnancy
I’m in my second trimester and I’m still feeling sick all the time, resulting in me not eating much. This worries me as I feel that my baby is not getting proper nutrition. What should I do? The ‘pregnancy sickness…
Ask Our Experts: Common Flu and Sore Throat
What is the best remedy for a common flu and sore throat? Most of the time, common flu and sore throat are due to viral infection of the upper respiratory tract and normally self limiting without the need for medication.…
Ask Our Experts: Potty Training
When would be the right time/age to start potty training my toddler? Toilet training or potty training is teaching your child to recognize his or her body signals for urinating and defecating by using a potty-chair or toilet correctly at…
Ask Our Experts: Eating Solids
At what age should I start feeding my baby solid food? Quoted from World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations: “Infants should be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life to achieve optimal growth, development and health. Breastfeeding, along with…
Ask Our Experts: Nurture
“When is the best time to nurture and stimulate my child?” If I were to give you a seed to plant, and ask of you to provide it with as much sunshine, water and fertiliser, when would you start caring…
Ask Our Experts: Early Education
“I have heard a lot about starting early when it comes to education, but won’t cramping my 8 month old baby’s head with school stuff at such an early age rob her of her childhood?” I believe there are three…
Ask Our Experts: Vaccinations
“Are there any serious ramifications for missing any scheduled immunizations or being late for them? My husband, who is from New Zealand, has this opinion that Malaysian babies get too many injections and not all of them are necessary! Hence,…
Ask Our Experts: Getting Pregnant and Racism
“If I have been eating well and exercising and still cannot get pregnant after six months of unprotected sex, would it be safe to assume that it’s my hubby who is probably having issues with his re-productivity? I am 32…