Babies | Parenting tips, babies' sleep and feeding

Smiling baby

To help you navigate the sometimes challenging new world of the postnatal, get advice gleaned from the Mumsnet Talk boards about your baby's feeding, sleeping, crying and development.

Babies and sleep

Too much, too little (and that's just the parents) – find out what other mums have found really helps when trying to settle babies to sleep.

Weaning babies

Introducing your baby to solid food is a messy but essential mission, so they get the nutrition they need. Get the full enchilada about when to start, first tastes, foods to avoid, baby-led weaning…

Babies and crying

If your infant's wailing is getting you close to tears yourself, get Mumsnetters' tips on techniques to help soothe your crying baby.

Life with a newborn

These tried and tested tips from experienced parents will help to make the early days with your baby that little bit easier.

Breastfeeding help

Advice to help you get breastfeeding established, deal with common problems, breastfeed in public, express milk and more.

Bottlefeeding

If your baby is bottlefed, or if you're doing mixed feeding, then there's some essential stuff you need to know about preparing and storing formula milk, to ensure you protect your baby's health.

Mixed feeding

Our new podcast series answers common parenting conundrums with no fluff or fuss – all packaged in a format that's perfect for the 3am feed or a snatched half-hour when they're (finally) down for a nap.

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Precious first borns (PFB)

Sometimes you have to learn things the hard way – other times you can steal nifty tricks from those who've already been there.

Mumsnet Baby Bundle

Need information, advice and support at your fingertips any time of the day or night? Mumsnet Baby Bundle is a mobile toolkit to help guide you through your baby's first years.

Postnatal depression

Find our about the symptoms, possible risk factors and treatment for postnatal depression (PND). It's more common than people realise and important it's diagnosed quickly.

Newborn essentials list

Trying to separate the must-haves from the mostly useless? We've created a starter for 10 of things Mumsnetters have on their essentials list for new babies.