Family Resources

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Pregnancy and breastfeeding

Local pregnancy information for families

Local pregnancy information for families: Links to information and support for pregnant women.

Women and Newborn Health: Pregnancy: Find helpful pregnancy advice and support for western Sydney mums

Breastfeeding your Baby: A NSW Health booklet with helpful breastfeeding information

Encourage and Support Breastfeeding Fact Sheet: Information on breastfeeding benefits, tips and supports for mothers

Giving your baby the best start brochure: Learn about the benefits of breastfeeding and the best foods to give your baby when they start solids.

Breastfeeding and returning to work brochure: Learn practical ideas to help you continue to breastfeed when you return to work.

Women and Newborn Health: Breastfeeding information: Find information, resources and support on breastfeeding for western Sydney mums

Seek pregnancy care early- brochure: Stay safe and seek pregnancy care early, available in 6 languages

Continuing breast feeding while baby is in care: Video discussing the role of educators in promoting, protecting and supporting women to continue breastfeeding while their baby is in care.

Introduction to solids

Starting Family Foods brochure: Find practical advice on how to introduce your baby to solid foods.

Teach your baby to drink from a cup brochure thumbnail

Teach your baby to drink from a cup brochure: Learn how to teach your baby to drink from a cup.

Tooth Smart - Stopping the Bottle (Baby)

Tooth Smart - Stopping the Bottle (Baby): A poster that suggest tips to stop children using a bottle.

Healthy lunchboxes and snacks

Healthy lunchbox foods factsheet: Find out how to pack a healthy lunchbox with food ideas from the 5 food groups.

Smart snack swaps factsheet: Discover some quick and simple healthy snack swaps for the lunchbox.

Choose Water as a Drink Fact Sheet: Learn how much water children should drink everyday, practical tips to encourage children to drink more water and how much sugar is in some different drinks.

Choose Healthy Snacks Fact Sheet: Find ideas for healthy snack foods, tips for planning healthy snacks and what foods to avoid eating everyday.

Eat More Fruit and Vegetables Fact Sheet: Learn how much fruit and vegetables we should be eating everyday and practical tips on how to eat more.

Healthy lunchboxes and snacks information: Use this fact sheet to find snack ideas for lunchboxes and some more tips to help you pack a healthy lunchbox.

Australian Guide To Healthy Eating: Use this plate model to show the recommended amounts of food we should eat from each of the 5 food groups.

Healthy Lunchbox website: Find a range of healthy lunchbox tips and recipes as well as a practical lunchbox builder activity.

Healthy eating and drinking

Australian Guide to Healthy Eating (including serve sizes): Learn how much of the five food groups we should be eating, and what makes up a serve, available in 11 languages

Choose Water as a Drink Fact Sheet: Learn how much water children should drink everyday, practical tips to encourage children to drink more water and how much sugar is in some different drinks.

Eat More Fruit and Vegetables Fact Sheet: Learn how much fruit and vegetables we should be eating everyday and practical tips on how to eat more.

Choose Healthy Snacks Fact Sheet: Find ideas for healthy snack foods, tips for planning healthy snacks and what foods to avoid eating everyday.

Milk Fact Sheet: Learn what types of milk are recommended for children of different ages and share this information with families.

Australian Dietary Guidelines: Find up to date advice about the amounts and kinds of food your family should to eat for health and wellbeing.

Tips for eating healthy: Learn practical ways to encourage your family to eat healthy.

Healthy recipes

Healthy Recipes: Find a collection of simple, family friendly, healthy recipes to cook with your family.

Heart Foundation Recipes: Find kid-friendly recipes that are quick to make, healthy and delicious!

Quick and easy recipes: Links to meal and snack ideas from trustworthy websites.

Fussy eating

Dinnertime with Isla (video)

Video storybook for children to encourage fuss-free mealtimes (produced by SLHD)

Fuss Free Mealtimes Poster: Find tips on how to create fuss free mealtimes at home (produced by SLHD)

Fuss Free Mealtime Factsheet: Need some more tips on how to create fuss free mealtimes? Produced my SLHD, also available in 5 other languages

Healthy Mouths - Oral Health Resources

Healthy mouths for kids under 5: Oral health tips for parents and carers with children under 5

Healthy mouths for your baby: Top oral health tips for your new baby

Tooth Smart - Stopping the Bottle (Older Child)

Tooth Smart - Stopping the Bottle (Older Child): A poster that suggests tips to stop children using a bottle.

Check your child's teeth poster: Information on how to check your child’s teeth for tooth decay.

How to brush (0 to 5) Video: Watch this short video on how to properly brush your child’s teeth.

Protecting Tiny Teeth Video: Watch this video on how to protect your child’s teeth.

Physical activity and reducing screen time

Get Active Each Day Fact Sheet: Learn how much activity your kids should be doing everyday and practical tips to be more active.

Turn off the Screens Fact Sheet: Learn how much time your children should spend in front of screens and how you can manage screen time at home.

National physical activity and screen time recommendations for children 0-5 years years: Learn the current national physical activity, screen time and sleep recommendations for children 0-5 years.

Physical activity guidelines 5-17 year olds

24-hour movement guidelines – children and young people (5 to 17 years) – fact sheet: Read about how much activity children and young people should do each day, how sitting time and screen time should be limited, and how much sleep they should get.

24-hour movement guidelines – birth to 5 years – fact sheet

24-hour movement guidelines – birth to 5 years – fact sheet: Read about the recommended times for physical activity, screens, and sleep each day for younger children.

Tips to get active: Learn practical ways to encourage your family to have an active lifestyle.

Safe & Healthy Travel to School at any Age

Download our Active Travel flipbook for more information on the benefits of active travel and steps towards active travel independence.

Walking in Western Sydney

Find tips to increase walking in your day, heart foundation walking information and local council walking paths, sports grounds and parks and gardens information

Wellbeing and safety

Habits for healthy minds and bodies: Learn practical tips to help with mental health and wellbeing

Child Safety Handbook: A resource for parents, carers and teachers on topics essential to child safety.

Heat and your health

Plan for the heat: Tips to help you prepare your home and family before a heat wave comes

A healthy transition to high school

Tips to Get Ready for High School brochure: Healthy bodies lead to healthy brains, Here are 8 practical tips that may help your child perform better at school.

Translated healthy lifestyle resources

Translated Healthy Lifestyle Resources: Find information on healthy living for children and families available in Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian, Hindi and Tamil.

Fact sheets for Aboriginal families

Water- the Best Drink for Healthy Kids: Water is the best drink for everyone. Read more for information on healthy drinks for children

Active Kids are Healthy Kids: Get kids moving everyday! Learn about how much activity and screen time kids should have and tips to help kids keep moving.

Healthy Food Grows Strong Kids: Eating healthy foods will help kids grow strong, healthy and happy. Find ideas for healthy food, snacks and breakfasts

Family and Carers bite sized videos

North Sydney’s Small Bites for Big Steps bite-sized videos for families and carers: On demand videos to support the healthy development of children in their First 2000 days. View practical bite-sized videos to support your child’s development in three different age groups: 0 to 18 months, 18 months to 3 years and 3 years to 5 years

Other healthy lifestyle information

The Sydney Children’s Hospital Network Factsheets

These factsheets for families provide information on diseases and conditions, treatments, tests and procedures, and the use of medical support equipment

Improving the health of everybody

Local information and resources for different life stages to help your family

Healthy Eating Active Living website

Find healthy eating and active living tips and programs. We can help you find one small change in your day that will help you (and your family) be healthier.

Go4Fun program

Go4Fun is a FREE 10-week healthy lifestyle program to help NSW 7-13 year olds lead healthier lives. Programs run during the school terms. Our qualified health professionals lead the fun and interactive sessions. Go4Fun encourages children and their families to become fitter, healthier and happier.

Get Healthy Service

Get Healthy is a free telephone health coaching service. It helps provide you the expertise and motivation you need to reach your health goals.

M&M Visual Snippets for Families

Check out our new visual snippets on healthy eating, physical activity, reducing screen time, drinking more water, healthy lunchboxes and more. You can download and share with your families through your online platforms or your service newsletter.

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