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24 Tips for Breastfeeding That You Absolutely Cannot Miss

Get the 24 most important tips for breastfeeding! Don't start breastfeeding before you read this post.

Are you pregnant and planning on breastfeeding? Or are you planning on becoming pregnant soon and want to breastfeed? This post is for you because it will give you great tips for breastfeeding! A lot of women prepare like crazy for their birth but are not at all prepared for when it’s time to take care of the baby. To be successful at breastfeeding, it’s better to educate yourself early on, so that there are no surprises along the way. You’d like to think that something as natural as breastfeeding would come totally naturally to all mothers. Unfortunately, that...

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A Step by Step Guide To Building an Amazing Breast Milk Supply.

a detailed schedule on how to establish an awesome breast milk supply

Amazing Breast Milk Supply Program There are many reasons why you’d have to build up your supply. For example, if your baby is in the NICU or Special Care Nursery or if your newborn isn’t able to latch. If your plan is to breastfeed, it is very important to give your body the signals to start producing breast milk right away. The glands and ducts in your breast work by supply and demand. The more that is taken out of the breast, the more you produce! In the beginning, right after the birth of your baby, there is colostrum...

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Skin-to-Skin: The One Place Your Baby Wants to be After Birth

Skin-to-Skin Contact My main focus with this platform is to inform and educate new parents about important practices regarding pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and parenting. I believe if they have easy access to the important information, they can make informed decisions about their care. So, today I’d like to focus on a very important practice that for years was not very common. Recently, there has been an increased awareness on this simple practice that benefits both mothers and babies immensely. And that practice is skin-to-skin contact (SSC)! What is Skin-to-Skin Contact? It’s very simple, keep your baby close to you,...

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The Magical Way to Increase Breast Milk Supply

The absolute number one concern I get from breastfeeding mothers is that they are worried they don’t make enough milk for their newborns. In addition to being an L &D nurse, my background in nursing includes being a Team Leader on a very busy postpartum floor. I’ve taken care of numerous women right after they deliver their baby.  They consistently want to know what to do to increase their breast milk supply. I mean it, almost every single breastfeeding woman brings up this issue at some point. For some reason, our culture makes women believe that they will have...

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Question & Answer Session with a Labour and Delivery Nurse: Part 2

This post contains questions I get when working as a labour and delivery nurse. Do you have any that I haven’t covered? Feel free to contact me and I’ll include it in the next question and answer period. Does the Epidural Hurt? Well it’s hard to say, because pain is subjective. Depending on where you are in the labour process and how you usually respond to pain, it can be different for every woman. When you get the epidural, you get two needles. The first poke is for local anaesthesia, so that you’re numb before you get the actual...

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