Category Archives: Making Sense of the Science
A Babe’s Guide to Pumping
Whether pumping at work, pumping at home for the occasional night out, or pumping to protect milk production while managing breastfeeding challenges, many mothers these days use a breast pump at some point during their nursing relationship. Regardless of the … Continue reading
The Latest on Latching
Long before books and the Internet, women were breastfeeding their babies. How on earth did they manage without all the instructions about asymmetrical latch, C-hold, cross cradle and football holds and wide gape?! They managed because back then, breastfeeding was … Continue reading
It’s Thrush. Or Is it?
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck right? Not necessarily if that “duck” is thrush in a breastfeeding mom. Thrush (a yeast infection most commonly caused by the fungus Candida albicans) … Continue reading
The Babe’s Guide to Bottle Feeding
Unlike breastfeeding, we’ve all seen bottle feeding, and we all know how to do it. We’ve been surrounded by it growing up. If someone handed you a baby and a bottle you would know what to do right? Of course … Continue reading
Vitamin D and breastmilk … what’s a babe to do?
You know that breastmilk, your milk, is the ideal and superior food for your baby. It has immunological properties, just the right amounts of protein, fat, sodium, and fluid for your baby at his current age, and it changes depending … Continue reading