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Will breastfeeding make my breasts saggy?

November - 11 - 2023

SAGGY BOOBS True or false: Pumping or breastfeeding makes your boobs sag. False. Neither pumping nor breastfeeding makes droopy boobies. A study done in 2008 concluded that the risk of breast ptosis, aka sagging, increases with each pregnancy, but has no correlation to breastfeeding (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/19083576/)…

Vitamin D and the breastfed baby: Do I need to supplement the baby?

August - 30 - 2023

Vitamin and mineral supplements are usually not needed for the average healthy, full-term breastfed baby during the first year old life. One of the major exceptions to that is Vitamin D. Vitamin D is essential to babies in order to maintain healthy bone growth…

Milk blebs

August - 28 - 2023

A milk bleb happens when the nipple pore gets blocked/clogged by a piece of skin or a small amount of hardened breast milk. It usually looks like a white dot on the nipple and the pain tends to be focused at that spot and just…

Postpartum chin and nipple hair

August - 26 - 2023

Sprouting chin hairs? Random nipple/areola/boob hairs? Blame those darn hormones again. Immediately after delivery, a sudden increase in estrogen may have you noticing thicker, darker hair in strange and unwanted places. The body uses an enzyme to change the estrogen to testosterone which can lead…

Freeze Dried Breast Milk

July - 25 - 2023

Freeze Dried Breast Milk: What's the hype about? Freeze drying milk is not a new concept. Powdered milk, sometimes called dried milk, milk powder, or dry milk, is a made by evaporating milk to dryness which can then later be reconstituted to the liquid form by…

How to safely prepare formula for your baby

July - 2 - 2023

Being pro breastfeeding does not mean being anti formula. As an IBCLC lactation consultant, my job actually includes education on feeding infant formula. This includes helping families choose an infant formula that is right for them based on solid evidence based research, bottle selection and…

How to pick a baby formula: Reading the label and picking the carb source

June - 29 - 2023

How to pick an infant formula: The sugar source, what do the ingredients mean? Being pro breastfeeding does not mean being anti formula Being pro breastfeeding does not mean being anti formula. As an IBCLC lactation consultant, my job actually includes education on safely preparing,…

My baby is refusing the breast: breastfeeding aversion

May - 23 - 2023

Aversion to feeding means screaming or crying when offered the breast or bottle, refusing to eat, or needing to be fed while moving or while drowsy/asleep. This is not a temporary nursing strike where baby refuses the breast/bottle for a few days because of periods…

I don’t like breastfeeding, it makes me feel sad or angry.

May - 23 - 2023

Ready to find out more? You're not alone if you're experiencing some kind of breastfeeding aversion. Click here to learn more. Click Here Breastfeeding is not all snuggles and cuddles. Some may actually experience an aversion to the act of breastfeeding. There are 3 types…

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