Breastfeeding Through Sleep Regressions, Tips for Survival!
Baby sleep regressions, ugh. I have dealt with my share of sleep regressions. If you look it up there seems to be a 3 month, 4 month, 6 month, 9 …
Breastfeeding Challenges and Questions
Answers to common questions that come up in the breastfeeding journey are here.
Can I Breastfeed While Sick?
Every year tons of women get sick while breastfeeding. I know when I was a new mother, nothing freaked me out more than the thought of getting my baby sick. …
Is Getting an MRI with Contrast and Breastfeeding Safe?
If you have ever needed an MRI while breastfeeding you have probably wondered if it is safe. Adding IV contrast dye and breastfeeding creates even more questions. It's not that …
Breastfeeding While Sick with the Stomach Flu
I have written previously about breastfeeding while sick and the reasons why you can continue to breastfeed even if you are sick. Here is a fun personal fact, until I had …
Resources for Concerns About Milk Supply While Breastfeeding
Our milk supply is something every breastfeeding mother worries about at some point. Even if you have a healthy and good supply we all have been known to doubt ourselves, …
Tips for Breastfeeding While Traveling
I don't know about you but I love to travel. It was a lot easier before kids, that's for sure, but we have still managed to take fun trips even …
4 Common Breastfeeding Problems New Moms Face
I am happy to offer a guest post today from Kelly Fowler of SweetMomsBlog As a first-time mom, you're doing everything in your power to get it all right. You've done …
When You Doubt Your Milk Supply
This last month has been crazy and not in a good way. At the beginning of September I started experiencing some severe pelvic pain. I couldn’t figure out what it …
Tandem Nursing a Sick Toddler and a Newborn Baby
While I am enjoying life with my newborn baby and going through the 'fourth trimester' I have been dealing with some toddler illness in our house. It started when my …
Breastfeeding While Sick, Articles to Help You Get Through It
I wrote a post over a year ago about breastfeeding while sick. I mentioned how it is perfectly safe to breastfeed while sick: The truth is once you start to …
World Breastfeeding Week, Maternity Leave Laws and Breastfeeding in the United States
World Breastfeeding Week 2015 is under way! The theme this year is Breastfeeding and Work, Let's Make it Work. Why is this so important? Well, close to 80% of women start off …
When did Covering or Not Covering to Breastfeed Become Such a Controversy?
To cover or not to cover while breastfeeding. When did the decision of whether to cover yourself to breastfeed become such a controversy? Maybe you have not experienced this, but …
Breastfeeding Through Back Pain
An issue you may encounter while breastfeeding is dealing with back pain. Often it is leftover back pain from pregnancy, labor and birth. This kind of pain usually goes away …
Using a Nipple Shield for Breastfeeding
What is a Nipple shield? A thin clear piece of silicon worn over the mother's nipple when breastfeeding. When my first baby was born she ended up in the NICU …
Breastfeeding a Teething Baby? Yikes!
My son recently turned one and he is teething like crazy. He got his first eight teeth back to back around the six month mark. Then we kind of had a …
Breastfeeding During the Holidays and Holiday Weaning
I have recently seen some posts on social media about 'holiday weaning' for a breastfed baby. I had not heard of this but basically it's a term used to describe …
Breastfeeding Tips to Increase Milk Supply
I already wrote about power pumping as a way to increase your milk supply. I wanted to see what other tips I could find to help increase supply and I …
So, Does Breastfeeding Burn Calories?
Many women (myself included!) really want to lose the baby weight asap after delivering our bundles of joy. When we are breastfeeding we are told to eat healthy but not …
