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Freezer Stash
If you plan to be away from from your baby for work or for fun and plan to feed your baby breastmilk while you are not present, you will need a freezer stash.
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Strategies to keep your baby fed, your milk supply strong, and your family balanced
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I approach breastfeeding with the humor, tough love, and compassion that you would get from a close friend (you know, the one who calls you out when you aren’t being your best self).
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Working & Breastfeeding
Back to Work Timeline Birth – 4 weeks, get a strong start Your primary focus in the first month is making sure breastfeeding is comfortable
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Post Weaning Problems
When you wean from breastfeeding you may notice some changes in your body.
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Weaning from Producing Milk
I want to be crystal clear: Once you stop the lactation process (making milk), it is essentially impossible to properly restart lactation in this postpartum period.
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Self Care for Parents
In the early postpartum months, especially the first two to six weeks, newborn babies are often incredibly resistant to laying down and sleeping on their own without being held by a person.
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Pumping For An Occasional Bottle
Have you ever wondered, “if I am nursing, how am I supposed to ever be able to pump milk for a bottle?” Here’s how: After nursing your baby, pump both breasts.
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Pacifiers & Nipple Confusion
It is a common recommendation from breastfeeding experts to forego artificial nipples (pacifiers or bottles) for the first few weeks or even months of breastfeeding to avoid the dreaded and ever-elusive nipple confusion.
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Supplementation
Supplementing is adding in additional breastmilk or formula along with nursing.
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Feeding
Foremilk/Hindmilk
There aren’t two types of milk in your breasts. There isn’t low-fat milk and high-fat milk, good milk and bad milk, thin milk and thick milk. There is just breastmilk.
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Milk Supply
How we measure a milk supply is fairly arbitrary, because a milk supply is always adjusting and changing based upon the stimulation it has received over the previous hours and days.
