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Post Weaning Problems
Weaning disrupts your hormones. Pregnancy messes with your hormones. Breastfeeding messes with your hormones. And, yes, weaning messes with your hormones. The good news? You
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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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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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Milk-Boosting Foods
For a little boost, try to eat one or more of these foods a day! Fennel, Carrots, Beets, Yams Grains: oats, millet, barley, brown rice
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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.
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Fussy at the Breast
A baby who is fussy at the breast and tends to pop on and off is especially frustrating since there are so many possible reasons why baby is doing this.
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Spitty Baby
Ah, baby puke. Spit happens, right? That’s why bibs were invented, after all. It can feel really worrisome when your baby spits up!
