So much of breastfeeding is about confidence. It’s about having confidence in your baby’s natural need to nurse, confidence in your body’s ability to create sustenance, and confidence, or maybe just faith, in yourself that you’ll be able to push through any obstacles. Yet, for many of us, confidence is a difficult trait and adding infants to the mix doesn’t

We’ve already discussed how co-sleeping makes breastfeeding easier here on the Latched Mama blog. You might remember the story of how I struggled to nurse my first baby because I reluctantly put her to bed in a nursery on the other side of our home. The struggle to get myself a good night of sleep was a major challenge for

“Is my baby getting enough to eat?” As a Registered Nurse who provides breastfeeding resources, this has got to be one of the questions that I receive most frequently. Normally, I begin my answer with, “The vast majority of women make enough milk for their baby.” I also remind women of the many ways they can check to make sure

So, you’re breastfeeding your child right now and loving it, but you have another baby on the way. What are you supposed to do now? A flood of questions is undoubtedly bothering you. Can you keep breastfeeding? Will your milk taste the same to your child? Will your new baby have enough milk if you’re trying to nurse both? The

Mothers often wonder when they should wean their breastfeeding babies. The answer is simple: it’s different for everyone, and you should do what feels right for you and your baby. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends feeding your baby with solely breastmilk for the first six months, and then using both solid foods and breastmilk for the remaining year.

You just went through the intense and joyful transition of introducing a new human into the world and now, after just weeks, you’re heading back to work. Talk about one intense change after another! You might be nervous, can you really keep breastfeeding while you’re working? Will you find time to pump? Yes. You can continue breastfeeding after you’ve started

It started with a small sore spot on the side of my right breast. The spot felt hot, tender when touched, and seriously uncomfortable. My second daughter was 9 months old and we were at a friend’s house, finishing up a play date that was especially difficult for my older daughter to wrap up. But as the “20 more minutes”

From the Abrahamic tale of Mose’s experience after floating down the river to records of wealthy families paying women to act as their infant’s main source of nourishment, history has many tales to tell of wet nursing. Still, the act of wet nursing continues to be practiced today in many cultures for various reasons: to feed the infants of upper

The possibility of having a premature baby isn’t something that I really thought about when I was pregnant. I didn’t know anything about the Neonatal Unit and what went on there, until at 30 weeks gestation, my baby girl was delivered by emergency cesarean and I was plunged into an unknown world of incubators, monitors and breathing apparatus for the

Once, while meeting with a lactation consultant, I was taught that breastfeeding, while natural in the sense that we were made to do it, doesn’t always come naturally. In fact, breastfeeding can often be like a complex dance routine in which both partners are new to the steps and have to learn them quickly on the fly. Nursing styles that