7 Lessons I Learned from my Lactation Consultant

7 Lessons I Learned from my Lactation Consultant

I’m a few months in to my second breastfeeding journey, and I’d like to take a minute to reiterate that breastfeeding is hard.  You have to worry about latching, positioning, engorgement, managing your milk supply, making sure your baby is getting enough, and so on 

The Best Postnatal Vitamins for Breastfeeding Moms

The Best Postnatal Vitamins for Breastfeeding Moms

Just because you’ve already given birth doesn’t mean you should stop your daily vitamin intake.  While prenatal vitamins were crucial during pregnancy, postnatal vitamins are a must have after birth, especially if you’re breastfeeding.  Vitamins are a postpartum essential that you don’t want to skip. 

Protein Powders and Breastfeeding – A Guide for Nursing Moms

Protein Powders and Breastfeeding – A Guide for Nursing Moms

How to Find a Safe Protein Powder While Breastfeeding If you’re a breastfeeding mom, you may be wondering if protein shakes are safe to drink while lactating.  The truth is, what you can and can’t consume while breastfeeding can be confusing.  After all, the things 

The Best Online Breastfeeding Classes For New Moms

The Best Online Breastfeeding Classes For New Moms

The Best Virtual Breastfeeding Courses for Pregnant and New Moms If you’re looking for the best online breastfeeding class, look no further.  We’ve complied a list of the top virtual breastfeeding courses that you can take during or after your pregnancy. It’s no secret that 

9 Amazing Alternative Uses for Breast Milk

9 Amazing Alternative Uses for Breast Milk

9 Other Ways Breast Milk Can be Used to Help your Baby Most people know that breast milk is an amazing food source for babies, but did you know that there are many alternative uses for breast milk?  Breast milk is packed with antibodies that 

Four Ingredient Lactation Smoothie

Four Ingredient Lactation Smoothie

Easy Lactation Smoothie for Weight Loss and Milk Supply Lactation smoothies are a quick and delicious way to increase you milk supply. What’s better than a tasty drink that includes all the best supplements for increasing break milk… all in one place! Ever since I 

14 Tips for Breastfeeding your Newborn

14 Tips for Breastfeeding your Newborn

When I had Weston, the breastfeeding Gods must have been smiling down on me.  We had an amazing experience.  He latched well from the start, gained weight like a champ, and I had a great milk supply.  Elliott will be two weeks old tomorrow and 

How to Prepare to Breastfeed a Newborn

How to Prepare to Breastfeed a Newborn

7 Ways you Can Prepare for Breastfeeding I was cleaning out the spare bedroom today so that we can quickly turn it into a “big boy” room for Weston before the baby comes.  The closet was packed with random baby things that were shoved in 

Alcohol and Breastfeeding: Everything Breastfeeding Moms Need to Know

Alcohol and Breastfeeding: Everything Breastfeeding Moms Need to Know

As a breastfeeding mom, there was nothing more frustrating and confusing than the topic of alcohol and breastfeeding.  When I decided I was ready for that first glass of wine after having Weston, I had to pull out my phone and Google “alcohol and breastfeeding”.  

The 7 Best Breastfeeding Resources for New and Expecting Moms

The 7 Best Breastfeeding Resources for New and Expecting Moms

If you plan to breastfeed your baby, you’re probably full of questions about how it works, what happens to your body, and what you need to do to be successful. Breastfeeding is one of the most difficult tasks a new mom has to face once