Food and Diet Related Featured How Much Water Should I Drink When Breastfeeding? How Much Water Should I Drink When Breastfeeding? As a breastfeeding mother, you have a job that doesn't end; sometimes, the most challenging part about breastfeeding is looking after yourself!
Low Milk Supply Featured How to Increase Oxytocin While Breastfeeding Skin-to-skin contact has many benefits, but one of these is the release of hormones that promote breastfeeding. Oxytocin is released when a mother and baby are touching; in fact, a mother may experience a rush of Oxytocin when she hears, sees or even thinks about her baby.
Latching Issues Featured Seven Ways to Slow Your Milk Flow & Cope With a Forceful Letdown Your baby may struggle to stay on the breast when your milk flow is too forceful. This could also cause your baby to swallow large amounts of air while nursing, causing choking at the breast and excessive gassiness.
Attachment Parenting Featured 4 Incredible Benefits of Co-sleeping While Breastfeeding Is it advisable to co-sleep with a newborn? From both a psychological and biological standpoint, babies are not naturally designed to sleep entirely on their own.
Interesting Featured 6 Ways to Prevent Sagging - Your Breasts After Breastfeeding Some moms are blessed and find no changes in their breasts after breastfeeding and pregnancy. Unfortunately, we can’t all be that lucky!
Breastfeeding Positions 2 of the Best Breastfeeding Pillows and Why The use of a nursing pillow for breastfeeding can make things so much easier in the first few weeks of a breastfeeding relationship. It can help a mother position and latch her baby easily.
Low Milk Supply Featured Adoptive Breastfeeding - Can You Produce Enough Milk? Breastfeeding can actually help the adopted child heal; helping him/her feel content and enhancing the bonding experience.
Engorgement Featured Why Does Milk Let-Down When Baby Cries? It felt pretty unbelievable the first few times I felt tingling in my breasts and a release of milk when my baby cried. I noticed this would happen when I reminisced about my baby or even when I heard a stranger's baby cry.
Thrush/Yeast/Nipple Issues Featured Can I Keep My Breasts From Leaking While Breastfeeding? Leaking is not always associated with oversupply. Some mothers with low milk supply issues may also experience leaking from the breasts.
Teething Featured Prevent Biting While Breastfeeding If you're a mother grappling with the dilemma of teething and biting while breastfeeding, you're not alone. In this article, I'll share my personal journey of navigating this tricky phase, along with practical tips and solutions that helped us make it through.
Benefits of Breastfeeding Featured 6 Things You Can Do for Increased Bonding With Your Baby Feeling a bond with your baby is not something that always happens immediately, and just as you would need time to get to know the love of your life, you will need to get to know and love your baby.
Preventing Dehydration in Babies Taking your baby outdoors is an exciting and highly beneficial experience. here are some easy ways to protect them whenever you venture outside.
Skin-to-Skin Featured Why Is Skin-to-Skin Contact Important? With skin-to-skin contact, your baby can spend energy on growing and thriving, instead of just surviving.
Benefits of Breastfeeding What Are the Benefits of Breastfeeding? Why Breastfeed? The benefits of breastfeeding are immense; nothing can compare to the properties of human milk.
Engorgement Symptoms of Engorgement and Treating Swollen Breasts Engorgement is sometimes apparent in the areola or the breast or both, in one breast or in both breasts. (you may have just one engorged, sore swollen breast).
Benefits of Breastfeeding How Much Should I Breastfeed at 6 Months? So, the amount that your baby drinks at the breast is determined by the amount of solid foods that he/she eats. Mothers will notice that their babies spend less time at the breast when they eat more food.
Gassy Breastfed Baby Featured How Can I Relieve My Baby's Gas? Spitting-up frequently, crying after a feed, trouble falling asleep and excessive fussiness all point to the possibility of trapped air that needs to escape.
Benefits of Breastfeeding Why Is Breastfeeding Important? Breast milk is alive, formula, on the other hand, is a non-living substance. Your breast milk changes from meal to meal, day to day, and year to year as your little one’s needs evolve.
Attachment Parenting Interventions That Can Hamper the Breastfeeding Relationship Many interventions can affect the breastfeeding relationship. Drugs during labor and drugs that are taken during pregnancy can have an effect on the baby’s feeding behavior.
Food and Diet Related Breastfeeding and Iron Intake - Is Iron-Supplementation Necessary Surprisingly, it is the mother who will face the brunt, since she will already be low in iron, and breastfeeding will further deplete her of the nutrient, making her anemic.
Interesting Got a Breastfeeding Headache? Know the Triggers and How to Prevent Them. A breastfeeding headache is more common than you would think. There are ways to rectify, prevent and at least make it a bit more bearable.
Food and Diet Related Should I Take Extra Vitamin D When Breastfeeding? Yes, nursing mothers do need to supplement themselves or their babies with extra vitamin D; this is mostly because people are not spending enough time in the sun these days. Your body uses the sun to make Vitamin D.
Benefits of Breastfeeding Breast Milk Lollies & Ice Cream And now, you have the beautiful chance to offer the best of nutrition to your child in a different form, appealing to the young one’s taste buds even more! The tempting and delicious breast milk ice lollies and ice-creams do just that for you!
Sore Nipples Eczema of the Areola, Breast, or Nipple Eczema found on the nipples and breasts of nursing mothers is not uncommon. It usually occurs after a few months of nursing. The mother should be sure first to rule out the possibility of thrush.
Low Milk Supply Breastfeeding and Diabetes - Can You Still Breastfeed? Yes, a diabetic mother can continue to breastfeed her baby. Whether you have type 1, 2 or gestational diabetes, you can and should continue to breastfeed. Diabetic mothers are advised to breastfeed their babies exclusively for 6 months or longer.
