Traveling with breastmilk but without your breastfeeding/nursing child? Here’s some tips for you while traveling: 1. Ask for a hotel room with a fridge I suppose I don’t really need to explain this one. However my tip is that most Hampton Inns have in-room fridges standard. I found this out…
You may have seen that a study, “The Association Between Common Labor Drugs and Suckling When Skin-to–Skin During the First Hour After Birth,” was recently published. This study investigated whether these medications had any negative correlation to breastfeeding initiation in the first hour of skin-to-skin contact after birth. Results indicate that breastfeeding initiation…
I have been there. Exclusively pumping (EP) was the absolute best thing I could do for my daughter who, at first, could not latch. (I say “I,” because I made the choice that this was the right thing for us. Not everyone has the desire or resources to do this.)…
It happens at least once a day: there’s a post in some group asking about what pump someone should get. And either the original poster says that Medela is probably her top pick and she is just looking for confirmation, or the respondents throw out the accolades: “I loved my…
“I’m going back to work soon and I don’t have a freezer stash…” “I pump, but I only get an oz. and I see all these photos of 4+ oz. …” “I just saw a woman saying her freezer is too full and she’s going to toss XXX oz. of…
What was your original goal with PLD? T: With Lynn and I having a background in social work/psychology, we really wanted to bring that model to doula care. There’s a high rate of turnover in the doula profession, many ‘new’ doulas are often women who, after experiencing the birth of…
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