Most mothers anticipate health challenges with their newborn. You’ve probably read up on vaccines and the diseases they aim to prevent, have prepared care plans for days when your baby comes down with a cold, and come up with ideas to handle a colicky baby, just in case. Yet, in making all these plans, rarely do new mothers consider their

Breastfeeding is a wonderful and natural way to bond with your children. Your breast milk provides them with all of the nourishment that they need to survive and thrive under your care. While breastfeeding comes with a set of known challenges: getting your baby to latch properly, managing your milk supply, and pumping when it’s time to go back to

Have you every been told you’re spoiling your baby by nursing too often? Mothers are sometimes encouraged to put their infants on a feeding schedule because old wives’ tales encourage the belief that letting babies nurse whenever they’d like creates a spoiled baby. This belief is especially popular in Western cultures but has lost a lot of traction in recent

Breastfeeding when you or your baby are sick may be a challenge, but there are rarely any cases of illness requiring that you quit breastfeeding. And, just as this is true for mom, there are very few illnesses which should prohibit your baby from nursing. While all of this is well and good, it doesn’t always mean that breastfeeding during

Learning to breastfeed your baby takes practice. After a sleepy night or two in the hospital and a few days to weeks at home, breastfeeding finally starts to make sense to both you and your baby. However, when it’s time to get outside and return to your normal routine, you’ve got to consider how you and your baby will navigate

  Breast milk is a super food brimming with immune-boosting components like antibodies designed to fight specific infective agents and lactoferrin which provides you baby with iron but also seems to have anti-viral properties. According to the World Health Organization, breast milk is all your baby needs for his or her first six months. During this time, relax knowing that

While many of us take the time to painstakingly research breastfeeding before giving birth-interviewing friends about whether or not its right for us, googling how to manage to breastfeeding and work, and looking into just how healthy nursing really is-few of us devote time to deciding how long we’ll breastfeed our babies. This may be in part because the idea

There’s perhaps no other time women experience as many changes in their body as they do when they’re pregnant and breastfeeding. During this time, our breasts are especially going through transformations. Hormones, blood flow changes, and the simple fact that the breasts fill and empty several times a day leads to all sorts of new experiences. Will your breasts get

The more intimidating aspects of breastfeeding have a lot to do with the foreign nature of it; it’s not like most of us are used to having someone latched onto our nipples so frequently! After the birth of your baby, there will be days where it seems you’ve spent more time with a baby on your breast than doing anything

We know breast milk is supercharged with immune-strengthening nutrients, but did you know that little building blocks known as stem cells are present in breast milk? You’ve probably heard the flurries of controversial news pieces covering the latest in stem cell research throughout the years, and it can be confusing to keep track of exactly what stem cells are –