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10 Best Foods to Eat When Breastfeeding
Discover the top 10 breastfeeding superfoods that nourish both you and your baby. From leafy greens and nuts to oats and seaweed, learn which nutrient-dense foods boost milk supply, improve milk quality, and support your overall health while breastfeeding.
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Prevent Dehydration in Breastfed Babies – What You Need to Know
Learn how to recognize and prevent dehydration in breastfed babies. Discover early warning signs, simple prevention tips, and how breastfeeding naturally keeps your baby hydrated. From feeding frequency to outdoor safety and diaper checks.
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Breastfeeding and Pacifiers: How to Find Balance
If you’re breastfeeding and wondering when or how to safely introduce a pacifier, you’re not alone. This guide offers calm, clear answers based on research and real mom experience—so you can make confident choices without guilt, stress, or guesswork.
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Postpartum Thyroid – How to Protect Energy, Mood & Milk Supply
Postpartum thyroid issues can quietly sabotage your energy, mood, and milk supply. This friendly, mom-to-mom guide explains how thyroid hormones work, what symptoms to watch for, and simple steps to support recovery.
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Adoptive Breastfeeding – How Much Milk Can You Really Make?
Adoptive breastfeeding is possible—and powerful. This guide explains how much milk you can expect to make, what influences your supply, and how nursing helps build attachment and healing, even if you don’t produce a full supply.
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The Dehydrated Baby & Breastfeeding – Signs to Look Out For
Worried your breastfed baby isn’t getting enough to drink? Learn the signs of dehydration in newborns, why breastfed babies are more vulnerable, and what steps you can take to keep your baby well-hydrated, healthy, and safe during the early weeks of breastfeeding.
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The Supplemental Nursing System – A Game-Changing Option
A Supplemental Nursing System (SNS) helps babies feed at the breast while receiving extra milk. Whether you’re dealing with low supply, relactation, or adoptive nursing, the SNS offers a bonding, milk-stimulating solution. Here’s how it works, who it’s for, and how to use it without added stress.
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Not Pumping Enough Milk? Simple Ways to Increase Output
Struggling with low milk output while pumping? You’re not alone. This guide covers why you might not be pumping enough milk and offers simple, proven tips—from power pumping to skin-to-skin contact—to help boost your supply. Practical advice, expert-backed solutions, and encouragement for every pumping journey. You’ve got this.
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The Use of Fennel While Breastfeeding
Using Fennel While Breastfeeding Fennel is a Mediterranean herb with yellow flowers, feathery leaves, and a pleasant smell. It’s commonly used for flavoring purposes, but this herb has a lot of hidden value. Fennel has similar properties to the hormone estrogens (Phytoestrogens); thus, it’s considered a galactagogue. A galactagogue is a food or drug that promotes…
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Coconut Water For Breastfeeding
Coconut water has long been hailed as a superfood, with its numerous health benefits being touted by worldwide wellness enthusiasts. But did you know coconut water can also be incredibly beneficial for breastfeeding mothers? Not only is it a great source of hydration, but it is also a natural lactogenic food, meaning it can help to increase milk…
Breastfeeding Problems & Solutions
Tag: Low Milk Supply
This tag is used for content and discussions related to insufficient milk production during breastfeeding. It covers both perceived low supply, where a parent worries their supply is inadequate despite the baby thriving, and actual low supply, where milk production does not meet the baby’s nutritional needs.
This is a central resource for parents seeking information, support, and solutions for challenges with milk production.
We Look Into:
Signs of Low Supply: How to differentiate between true signs of insufficient milk transfer (like poor weight gain or low diaper output) and normal infant behaviours (like frequent feeding, fussiness, or shorter nursing sessions).
Causes and Contributing Factors: Exploring common reasons for reduced milk production, including:
Infrequent or ineffective milk removal (due to poor latch, scheduled feeds, or missed pumping sessions).
Hormonal conditions (e.g., PCOS, thyroid issues).
Certain medications or herbs.
Previous breast surgery.
Supplementing with formula without protecting the milk supply.
Strategies to Increase Milk Supply: Practical advice and methods for boosting production, such as:
Power pumping: A specific pumping schedule that mimics cluster feeding.
Galactagogues: Information on foods, herbs (like fenugreek or moringa), and prescription medications known to increase milk supply.
Ensuring a proper latch and effective milk transfer.
Increasing the frequency of nursing or pumping sessions.
Supplementation: Guidance on when and how to supplement with expressed breast milk, donor milk, or formula while protecting the breastfeeding relationship.
Professional Support: Information on when to seek help from a lactation consultant (IBCLC), doctor, or paediatrician to diagnose and manage supply issues.
Personal Stories and Emotional Support: A space for parents to share their experiences, frustrations, and successes, creating a supportive community around a common and often stressful feeding challenge.