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How to Breastfeed in a Nursing Sling: Tips & Babywearing Benefits
Write For Me said: Breastfeeding in a nursing sling gives you freedom, comfort, and connection—all while keeping your hands (mostly) free. This guide walks you through how to do it safely and confidently, with step-by-step instructions, practical tips, and real-mom insight.
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Baby Won’t Stop Crying? Reasons for Crying & How to Help
Not sure why your baby is crying? You’re not alone. This guide helps new moms understand normal crying patterns, common causes, and what to do when nothing seems to work. It’s real, reassuring, and packed with practical tips to soothe your baby—and yourself—during those overwhelming moments.
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Why Is Skin-to-Skin Contact Important?
Skin-to-skin contact after birth is a simple, powerful way to support your baby’s health and emotional well-being. It regulates temperature, boosts bonding, and promotes breastfeeding. This guide explains why it matters for both parents and babies—especially after C-sections or premature birth—and how to include it in your birth plan.
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Encouraging Breastfeeding Stories – You Can Do It!
Breastfeeding Stories From the HeartThere is something to be learned from someone else’s breastfeeding story. Here you will find those breastfeeding hardships, trials, joys, and triumphs to motivate those thinking of breastfeeding or struggling to breastfeed.Elsabe Rabe, 22, lives in Limpopo, South Africa, and shares her story…“When I think back on my breastfeeding journey with…
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Tandem Nursing
A guide for mothers looking to understand the complexities and rewards of tandem nursing.What Is Tandem Nursing?Tandem nursing is apparent when a mother falls pregnant while nursing and then has to nurse her toddler and baby simultaneously or if the mother is breastfeeding twins.Is nursing during pregnancy dangerous? If you fall pregnant while breastfeeding, you do not need to…
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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.What Does Co-Sleeping Mean?Co-sleeping means that you are within sensory range of your baby. Within sensory range means that you are close enough to your baby to recognize and respond…
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What Are the Benefits of Breastfeeding? Why Breastfeed?
The benefits of breastfeeding are immense; nothing can compare to the properties of human milk.The Benefits of BreastfeedingBreastfeeding vs. bottle feedingBreastmilk contains a 100% correct ratio of calories, fat, protein, fluid, vitamins, and minerals essential for a baby’s development and growth.The benefits of breastfeeding mentioned below will hopefully prove that by breastfeeding your baby, you…
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Supplementary Nursing System
What Is a Supplemental Nursing System?A supplemental nursing system (SNS Feeder) is a feeding tube attached to a bottle containing formula or breast milk for supplementary feeding at the breast. This allows the mother to breastfeed her baby, even if the baby is being supplemented.A lactation aid is a great way to get a mother…
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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.Also known as the Love Hormone, the benefits of…
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Baby Sleep Schedule – Improve Your Baby’s Sleep.
Did you know that breast milk contains an amino acid that the body uses to produce melatonin, the hormone that regulates sleep? Baby Sleep Schedule The Initial Weeks The initial weeks of a baby’s life can be especially exhausting for parents. However, there are methods to make it easier and enable your baby to sleep…
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Tag: Attachment Parenting
Explore the principles of attachment parenting and how to foster a strong, nurturing bond with your baby. Learn about responsive caregiving, gentle discipline, babywearing, co-sleeping, and other practices that support your child’s emotional and physical well-being.