Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Milk Supply Other Breastfeeding Worries

Which Formula Tastes Like Breast Milk? 10 Options

You may wonder how your breastfed baby will respond to trying, supplementing with or switching over to formula. Fluctuating spontaneously,

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Reviews and Recommendation

10 Breastfeeding Essentials For New Moms

If you’re a new mom, breastfeeding may take some getting used to. Having the right supplies and accessories can make

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding and Surrogacy: A Few Things You Should Know

Surrogacy is a beautiful act. It’s the sharing of one’s very body with another being for the benefit of another

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Breastfeeding and Traveling Tips

There are many reasons why you might be traveling while you are breastfeeding. You might be breastfeeding and traveling for

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

A Fashionista’s Secrets to Dressing for Breastfeeding With Style

When I was enormously 9 months pregnant, I wanted two things. I wanted to hold my baby and I wanted

Continue Reading
Birth-3 Weeks Breastfeeding

ESTABLISHING BREASTFEEDING – AVOID COMMON MISTAKES WITH THESE {21} TIPS

The first few days after a baby is born is a whirlwind. Moms are expected to learn all sorts of

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Preparing to Breastfeed

Why Breastfeeding Is Important

I love helping moms breastfeed. While breastfeeding is natural, it doesn’t always come naturally. Sometimes it comes easily. Sometimes it

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Milk Supply

When One Breast Produces More Milk

One of the most common questions I get from breastfeeding moms is what to do when one breast produces more

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

Intermittent Fasting While Breastfeeding – What You Need To Know

Has breastfeeding not been the weight loss magic that you’d heard it could be? Are you getting frustrated with the

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Funny and Beautiful Breastfeeding Quotes

Breastfeeding can be easy and wonderful, or it can be the hardest thing you’ve ever done. Being a nursing mother

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

How Much Breast Milk Does A Baby Need? What You Need To Know

A common question new parents have is how much breast milk does a baby need? As a new breastfeeding mom,

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

How To Easily Have A Healthy Eating Plan For Breastfeeding Mothers

As a breastfeeding mom, what you eat can affect your growing baby and your own body and energy levels. It

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

What No One Tells You About Nipple Shields for Breastfeeding

Nipple shields for breastfeeding are frequently recommended for a variety of nursing problems. I have seen this happen when a

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

11 Tips For Breastfeeding During The Holidays That Will Save Your Sanity

The winter holidays are a time of celebrations, traditions, and enjoying time with friends and family. There is so much

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

Breastfeeding After Breast Surgery: Breast Augmentation, Breast Reduction, Breast Biopsy

  There are millions of women of childbearing age who have had a breast reduction, breast augmentation, and breast biopsies.

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Genius Tips For Weight Loss While Breastfeeding

Some new moms lose their baby weight effortlessly. The extra weight seems to melt off. Other women have to work harder

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

How To Appreciate Nighttime Breastfeeding

Is your baby sleeping through the night yet? You may be asked this question frequently by well-meaning friends and family.

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

How to Survive Biting During Breastfeeding – Without Weaning

Biting and breastfeeding are two words that no mom wants to say in the same sentence. Biting during breastfeeding can

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

Breastfeeding and Formula: It’s not the F-Word

Using infant formula when breastfeeding can happen by necessity or by choice. For some nursing moms the need to use

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

Breastfeeding Growth Spurts – A Lactation Consultant Answers Your Questions

Babies grow faster in their first year of life than at any other time (Source). While they are growing all

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

How To Hand Express Breast Milk – And Why You Should

  Don’t make the mistake of thinking that if you have a fancy electric breast pump that you won’t benefit

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

Can Breastfeeding and Depression Safely Co-exist?

A nursing mom has unique concerns when it comes to postpartum depression. She will want to learn all she can

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Breastfeeding FAQs Answered By A Lactation Consultant

If you’ve never breastfed before then, you probably have a lot of questions. I have helped moms and babies for

Continue Reading
Breast and Nipple Pain Breastfeeding

Help For Mastitis – A Lactation Consultant’s Practical Advice

Mastitis is painful, and it can be scary. I remember when I got mastitis. It happened in the early weeks

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

How To Get Breastfeeding Help When You Are Struggling

When you have a newborn, you will find yourself the recipient of a boatload of unsolicited advice. This is even

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Preparing to Breastfeed

7 Essential Things To Know About Prenatal Breastfeeding Classes

Do you know what is really silly? While most pregnant women are advised to take a childbirth preparation course they

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

{10} Genius Ideas of What to Do With Leftover Breast Milk

I stared at the sign in the window of a salon advertising breast milk facials. My first thought was, why

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

Breastfed Babies and Pacifiers – Good, Bad, or Necessary Evil?

Pacifiers are practically the universal sign for babies. But moms want to know if breastfed babies and pacifiers are a

Continue Reading
Birth-3 Weeks Breastfeeding

HOW TO ROCK BREASTFEEDING AFTER C-SECTION

Most moms don’t expect to have a cesarean. However, many women have a good chance of needing these tips for

Continue Reading
6 Weeks-3 months Breastfeeding

BREAST ENGORGEMENT REMEDIES – SMART MOM’S ESSENTIAL GUIDE

YOUR GUIDE TO BREAST ENGORGEMENT REMEDIES When your milk comes in, you should expect some drama. That drama is called

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

BREASTFEEDING WHILE SICK – PRACTICAL ADVICE FROM A LACTATION CONSULTANT

When you are feeling miserable you want to know what will make you feel better. You also need fact-based information

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

How To Quit Obsessing About Breastfed Baby Weight And Growth Charts

Are you are a breastfeeding mom who worries about your breastfed baby’s weight? There is a lot of attention paid

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

9 Breastfeeding Must-Haves Smart Moms Won’t Want To Be Without

I know what you’re thinking. Do we really need another list of breastfeeding must-haves? Don’t we already have pages and

Continue Reading
Birth-3 Weeks Breastfeeding

Birth and Breastfeeding

Birth and breastfeeding are sometimes more complex than you think they will be. Your baby is born, and he is

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

HOW CAN I HELP MY FUSSY BREASTFED BABY?

Babies cry. It’s a fact of life. It’s one of the ways they communicate with us. But having a fussy

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Breastfeeding made easy

Breastfeeding is hard! Breastfeeding is easy! You will hear both of these proclamations. Which is it? The truth is it can

Continue Reading
Breast and Nipple Pain Breastfeeding

FAST RELIEF FOR SORE NIPPLES WHILE BREASTFEEDING

If you are struggling with sore nipples you want relief ASAP. Nipple pain is one of the most common reasons

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Milk Supply

INCREASE MILK SUPPLY BY PUMPING – 10 GENIUS WAYS

Do you worry about how much milk you are making? Many moms worry about their milk supply. Whether you need

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

BREASTFEEDING WITH A COLD – HOW TO SAFELY SURVIVE

One minute you are fine. The next minute you are starting to feel that scratchy throat sensation. You sneeze, your

Continue Reading
Breast and Nipple Pain Breastfeeding

FINDING THE BEST TREATMENT FOR THRUSH DURING BREASTFEEDING

Are you struggling with thrush during breastfeeding? Nipple thrush is also called a yeast infection. Yeast infections are a common

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Essential Oils for Breastfeeding Moms

Guest Post by Allison Shorter Essential oils are wonderful for so many things including cleaning your home, cosmetic use, and

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Super Easy DIY Nursing Cover Scarf

Are you a breastfeeding mom who wants to look fashionable? Do you prefer to cover up when you are breastfeeding

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Weaning

Weaning – How To Stop Breastfeeding

When you want to learn how to stop breastfeeding you want to know how to do it so there is

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

29 Ultimate Breastfeeding Hacks for New Moms

Let’s be real, breastfeeding can be hard. I have been a  lactation consultant for over 25 years. I breastfed my

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

Round-Up: The Worst Breastfeeding Advice Moms Have Heard

There’s nothing like unsolicited advice. Moms get a lot of it. It usually starts the minute people find out that

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips

11 GENIUS TIPS FOR BOTTLE FEEDING A BREASTFED BABY

New moms often ask me when it is okay to start bottle feeding a breastfed baby. Some moms will wonder

Continue Reading
Breastfeeding Other Breastfeeding Worries

Going Dairy Free for Your Breastfeeding Baby

I learned quickly that going dairy free for your breastfeeding baby could be very helpful when a baby is very

Continue Reading