Breastfeeding Articles

About eight years ago I bought my first nursing bra. I had no idea what I was doing. Don’t get me wrong, I knew shopping (very well) and loved lingerie. But, all of the lovely things in my drawer [ ... ]

1. Invest in Breastfeeding Clothing

Call me shallow, but with my first, I didn’t really enjoy breastfeeding. Well what I didn’t enjoy was how I looked or felt in my clothes. My boobs were lops [ ... ]

It's natural so it must be easy right? I am a planner by nature, and when I was pregnant with my son in 2006 I planned everything. I was going to breastfeed, it's natural, it's what my boob are for,  [ ... ]

"Your rack is shrinking." Said my husband, the poet, the other night as I was undressing for bed.

And it’s true.

The Boobs of Doom, we named them early in my pregnancy, when they swelled from a B to  [ ... ]

Ever since the goofy movie “Snakes On A Plane” was released, travel writers far and wide have come up with their own variation of the title for a piece they’ve written.  I am no exception.  On [ ... ]

If you're a new Mom who is nursing your baby you may be nervous about breastfeeding in public.  Or perhaps you are disturbed by media reports of women who are harassed for breastfeeding in public and [ ... ]

1. Many women do not produce enough milk.

Not true! The vast majority of women produce more than enough milk. Indeed, an overabundance of milk is common. Most babies that gain too slowly, or lose weig [ ... ]

If you give birth to a premature baby or have a sick newborn baby who needs to be in the hospital for an extended period of time, you will need to use a breast pump to remove the milk from your breast [ ... ]

Breast milk is the perfect food for babies. Breastfeeding is recommended for the first six months of life and beyond with the addition of complementary solid foods starting at six months of age. Not o [ ... ]