Category: Feeding Your Baby

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How to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding

It’s totally possible to lose weight while breastfeeding without affecting your milk supply. I know because I did it! In fact, breastfeeding is a great tool to actually help you lose more weight after pregnancy. It’s a little bit trickier than losing weight at any other time of your life …
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5 Practical Tips to Confidently Breastfeed in Public

Breastfeeding is hard enough within the comfort of your own home. You’re figuring out how to hold the baby while breastfeeding, how to breastfeed comfortably, and how to get the baby to latch properly. There’s no room to be concerned about modesty in that mess! Then you realize that you’re …
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How To Deal With Mold In Medela Tubing

Pumping isn’t fun. You have to sit there chained to a machine feeling a bit like a dairy cow and there are so many parts to clean. And so much can go wrong! Some links in this post may be affiliate links, which means I make a small commission on …
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What To Do When Breastfeeding Is Boring

I’ll be the first to admit that breastfeeding can get a little monotonous. Breastfeeding books will tell you to spend every moment of breastfeeding bonding with your baby. And some of that can be really nice. I loved gazing into my baby’s eyes and talking to her and singing to …
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What To Do When Breastfeeding Hurts

The time you spend breastfeeding should be a sweet time to bond with your baby and a time to get to know her better. You should be sniffing her hair and lovingly gazing into each other’s eyes. It should be something you look forward to. Breastfeeding definitely shouldn’t hurt! Unfortunately, …
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Tips for Successful Breastfeeding

Maybe you’re expecting a baby and hoping to be successful at breastfeeding. Or maybe you’ve already started breastfeeding and it’s been tougher than you expected. Research shows that only a third of women who intend to breastfeed for 3 months or more actually reach their goal. The rest of them …
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Don’t Give Up On Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding can be hard. I was blessed enough to breastfeed each of my babies for over a year, but not without a lot of struggle and perseverance. I hear a lot of women say that they stopped breastfeeding for reasons that could have easily been resolved if only they had …