Lila Jasmine Nutrition

18/11/2025

Can you keep a secret? 🤫

17/11/2025

When even the Silver Ferns captain had our bars on subscription 💫 I love that seeing them now brings her back to those early mum days - the best kind of nostalgia!

14/11/2025

FROM YOUR MIDWIFE BESTIE |Your antenatal colostrum expression guide [save this for later]

▻ Start: 36–37 weeks but, you must check with your LMC first
▻ How: Hand express using a gentle C-shape > press back > roll fingers forward, no pump needed)
▻ Collect: Use small syringes like those in our Mother’s Gold Colostrum Kits, label date and time, store in the freezer
▻ Normal amounts: Glistens, to drops to a few mls, it can vary day to day
▻ Why it helps: You get comfortable with hand expression, build a small stash of liquid gold for the early days, and feel more prepared. Especially helpful for planned caesareans, GD, PCOS & previous feeding challenges.

Shop the Mother’s Gold Colostrum Kits here → https://lilajasmine.co.nz/products/mothers-gold-colostrum-collection-kit

11/11/2025

Last one for 2025!

It’s November already, and we have one last Hapū Wānanga for the year! Register online to come along to this one-day wānanga in Hamilton.
www.waikatodhb.health.nz/hapuwananga

06/11/2025

Throwback to March 2017 on my 30th birthday about to have our 3rd baby.

Eli 7, Seb 17 months & Xav a newbown. I struggled so much that year, Jeremy & I had been married 10 years & it was hard on our relationship too. In hindsight I had PND & one of my biggest regrets is that I didn’t get help & have tools in my kit to better navigate that period.

The baby blues & PND is a topic I cover in our 4th Trimester Worksop & I’m teaching my FINAL in-person session next Thursday November 13th. As our community grows I’m excited to make our 4th Trimester Workshop even more accessible by moving to a fully online formate which will be relaunch in 2026.

I’ve opened up 2 more tickets {space for 2 couples} if you want to come along book ASAP! I’d love to have you & better prepare you for motherhood/parenthood.

www.lilajasmine.co.nz to book. X

27/10/2025

Our Sebby turned 10 yesterday - he’s the baby we hoped and prayed for that came to us 6 years after his brother Eli following fertility treatment, miscarriage and the exploration of adoption. We ADORE everything about him. He’s full of character with a wildly inquisitive and intelligent brain, he’s our mahi man who doesn’t like cuddles but every now and then he’ll initiate one and we savour it.

He was a hard baby - he cried lots, fed all the time and hardly slept. He first escaped our toddler-proofed, fully fenced house when he was 1 and has been on the go ever since. As he’s gotten older I look back on those hard and frantic days with fondness [but I felt like I was drowning in the moment]. Sebby’s antics have morphed from a stressor of mine in to a strength of his. He’s a great problem solver and incredibly independent. Jeremy and I joke that we would leave him alone for a week and he’d be absolutely fine.

It’s my pleasure to watch him do his thing, he’s going places I just know it. He was 5 when I first realised that - he wrote to the principal and asked that the pump track rules be amended since the middle school weren’t optimising their allotted time. He was successful and the rules were amended. At 10 he still loves wheels [Labour Weekend Camping Wheelie Camp], the wind in his hair, the movement, the freedom.

Happy 10th Birthday Sebastian, I love you! X

21/10/2025

FROM YOUR MIDWIFE BESTIE | 5 ways to know your baby is getting enough milk. It’s completely normal to wonder if your baby is getting enough especially in those early days. Here’s what to look for:

• Frequent feeding: your baby feeds often, usually 8–12 times in 24 hours in the early weeks.
• Swallowing: you can hear or see your baby swallowing during feeds, the jaw drops low once the mouth is full with milk and the swallow sounds a bit like a breath.
• Good weight gain and a content baby: your baby is gaining weight steadily, seems relaxed and settled after most feeds [though cluster feeds and fussy patches happen too].
• Wees + poos: what to expect in the first week. Day 1–2: 1–2 wet nappies per day and dark, sticky meconium poos. Day 3–4: 3–4 wet nappies; poos begin to change to a lighter brown/green. Day 5–6: 5+ wet nappies; poos becoming mustard-yellow, soft and seedy. From 7 days onward: Expect 6 or more heavy wet nappies per day and 2 or more soft yellow poos daily both signs your baby is feeding well.
• A content baby: after most feeds your baby looks relaxed, has floppy hands and limbs, and may fall asleep or come off the breast on their own. Some fussy or cluster-feeding patches are totally normal too.

You’re never alone in figuring this out, contact your LMC or Well Child Provider if you’re ever worried.