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I Nursed My Baby With Down Syndrome – My Success Story
I had a pretty busy summer and was feeling quite tired out and uncomfortably pregnant when my water broke four and one-half weeks early. Off to the hospital my husband and I went. I wasn’t too concerned because my first child had been almost four weeks early, and everything had been fine. When our daughter,…
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Pump and Dump?
By Kalin McBean and Melanie Myers Consider this excerpt from The American Academy of Pediatrics Clinical Report: “Many mothers are inappropriately advised to discontinue breastfeeding or avoid taking essential medications because of fears of adverse effects on their infants. This cautious approach may be unnecessary in many cases, because only a small proportion of medications…
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Tandem Breastfeeding
By Mia Gonzalez Tandem breastfeeding two children at once is something I never expected to do, and I certainly never imagined breastfeeding three (you only have two breasts after all; how would that even work?). But somehow I ended up nursing 21-month-old twins and a newborn. It sounds a little unusual to me now, too,…
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Blebs: Teeny Tiny Meanies
By Rachel Fenton How can something that is so small hurt so much? That is the question I asked myself when I developed a bleb on my right nipple. Then asked again when the next one developed in the exact same spot. And again. And again. I asked myself this question eight times for a…
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Six Questions to Ask Your IBCLC (or Other Health Care Provider)
By Karen Cuni IBCLCs (International Board Certified Lactation Consultants) aren’t people we typically see when breastfeeding is going well. If we are working with one, we usually are tired, stressed, worried, overwhelmed, maybe in pain, or even wondering if our child is getting enough to eat. In this situation, it often feels like the most…
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Breastfeeding a Baby with a Cleft Lip and or Palate – The Red Carpet Treatment
By Alice Farrow After having overcome some breastfeeding challenges with my first daughter, I was looking forward to an easier experience the second time around. Finding out that my second daughter, Miriam, would be born with a unilateral cleft lip and palate was a cold shower – the first of many. I didn’t know exactly…