1. Bring your baby to your breast, not your breast to your baby.
2. Remember your baby’s feeding position: chin to breast and nose to nipple.
3. Eat and drink plenty and regularly.
4. Accept all offers of help in the early weeks so you can devote yourself to establishing breastfeeding.
5. Avoid sore nipples by making sure your baby latches on properly.
6. Top-up feeds shouldn’t be necessary.
7. Be confident in your ability to feed your baby. You can do it.
8. Expressing and storing some breast milk can give you more flexibility and freedom.
9. Enjoy this special warmth, closeness and bonding time with your baby – even if it does seem to take up all your time at first!
10. Feeding on demand ensures a good supply of breast milk.
11. It’s very rare not to have enough milk.
12. Your milk is a unique and perfect food – after all, nature intends babies to be fed this way.
13. Going back to work doesn’t have to mean the end of breastfeeding.

Always seek prompt medical attention if :

• Your baby seems unusually sleepy and /or refuses feeds
• Your baby seems unusually unsettled and is crying more than usual.
• You fell flu-like, hot, cold, aching or generally unwell.
• You have any redness, tenderness or lumpiness in your breasts.

• Fluoride has made the greatest difference to children’s dental health in the UK so always choose a toothpaste with fluoride in it.
• Resist juice and give water to drink.
• Brush 2 or 3 times a day if possible and always make sure you brush your teeth at the end of the day.
• Use teethers rather than relying on teething gels which provide only a temporary numbing effect on baby’s teeth.
• Choose the softest toothbrush available and replace your baby’s toothbrush regularly.
• tommee tippee® recommend only milk or water to drink.
• Mealtimes are the best times to give drinks.
• Always dilute juice one part juice to ten parts water.
• Teeth need a rest after coming into contact with juice.
• Sweet drinks (even those labelled ‘no added sugar’) will give babies a sweet tooth and put their teeth enamel at risk.
• Do not allow babies to hold a cup after they have finished, as prolonged sucking will cause tooth decay.
• Register your child with a dentist before their first birthday - even if they haven’t any teeth.
• Straws are beneficial as they carry liquid to the back of the mouth – not up against the front teeth.

• For hygiene and safety reasons, you should change a soother around every four weeks.
• Always inspect the soother before you give it to baby, and replace if it is worn or torn in any way.
• Always keep soothers clean.
• All tommee tippee® soothers can be sterilised by any method.
• Always keep a soother close by for those fractious moments.
• It's a good idea to keep a couple of spare soothers handy in case of loss or accident

Tommee Tippee recommends that milk or water are the best drinks for baby though juice may be given when diluted 1:10 (especially pure fruit juice).
However, please remember that continuous and prolonged sucking of fluids - even when giving non-sweetened fluids – will cause tooth decay. This means that babies should not be left with a bottle or cup for long periods during the day where they are allowed to suck continually and especially during the night when saliva flow is reduced or where they are allowed to use them as soothers.