Tag Archives: pumping
Science You Can Use: Can music make you make more - and fattier - milk?
Music is food for the soul, they say. But what it if also made food for babies? A recent study found that mothers of babies in the NICU pumped more milk - and fattier milk - when listening to recorded … Continue reading
Last revised on 06/22/2012
Booby Traps Series: How to beat the Booby Traps in the NICU. An interview with Diane Spatz.
This post is the 43rd in a series on the Booby Traps, made possible by the generous support of Motherlove Herbal Company. In a prior post I discussed a number of barriers to breastfeeding many moms encounter in the NICU. … Continue reading
Last revised on 06/07/2012
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
Last revised on 11/30/2011
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
Last revised on 07/06/2011
Reasonable Break Time for Nursing Mothers
As most of you have probably heard by now, the new federal healthcare legislation (The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) includes a provision creating new baseline protections for working and pumping moms. Since there is still a great deal … Continue reading
Last revised on 06/27/2011
Wall Street Journal: Pumping Breast Milk on the Job Still Carries Costs
The Wall Street Journal Online posted a good article, “Pumping Breast Milk on The Job Still Carries Costs.” I think the “carrying costs” part is a little confusing, though. The truth is that not helping moms to succeed at breastfeeding … Continue reading
Last revised on 05/07/2009
