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The First Few Days of Breastfeeding

While nursing is the natural way to feed your baby–it doesn’t necessarily come naturally. Unfortunately, many hospital nurses are simply uninformed regarding breastfeeding and are not necessarily helpful. Sometimes, even the hospital routines sabotage your efforts in breastfeeding by insisting on rigid schedules or by giving your baby one or two bottles of water or formula. Hopefully, this is not the case for you. If it is, it could make breastfeeding more difficult–but rest assured most babies instinctively want to breastfeed and most babies will get it–eventually! How Long to Nurse? When I was in the hospital with my first … Continue reading →

Help! I Don’t Have Enough Milk!

The actual number of women who medically cannot produce enough milk for their babies is very, very rare. Why then does it seem that we all know at least a few women who for one reason or another had trouble producing enough milk to feed their children? Frequently what happens is that a mother has trouble and is never really given the necessary support to continue producing milk effectively. The bottom line is that the less your baby nurses, the less milk you will produce. Supply and Demand Breastfeeding is a supply and demand relationship. Your body produces the amount … Continue reading →