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Your breasts after breastfeeding

3 July, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

During pregnancy, your body undergoes many changes, some of which are more visible than others. Some may also be totally unexpected, such as the changes in your breasts, but what about your breasts after breastfeeding? Many mothers are concerned about how to recover their breasts after weaning, so let’s talk about it. An increased breast volume is one of the most visible physical symptoms of pregnancy and usually happens in the first few weeks of the first trimester; breasts are…

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My baby is straining when breastfeeding

28 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

“My baby is straining at the breast, and I’m worried. Everything was going well with breastfeeding, but he’s been uncomfortable for a few days now. When he has been suckling for a while he starts to push and straining, gets uncomfortable, and makes noises. Is my breast milk bad for him? Should I do anything? I don’t know what’s wrong with him, and I’m very upset to see him like this.” Anonymous LactApp user Breastfeeding babies do many things and…

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Breastfeeding in preterm infants

28 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

For a preterm newborn, breast milk is not only considered a food but also a fundamental part of the infant’s treatment. Therefore, it is essential to know the different options available for oral feeding of preterm infants, to understand the differences between them as well as the pros and cons of each one. The first choice for feeding a preterm newborn is always the mother’s own milk. It is the only milk that is specifically formulated for the baby. It…

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Weaning: definition, types and tricks to stop breastfeeding

27 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

What is weaning Weaning is the process that ends breastfeeding. Just like breastfeeding, weaning has an evolution and specific “times” to be taken into account during the process. At LactApp, we want to accompany this process no matter how it is or whenever it is for you. That’s why this article summarizes all the information so that all the ideas and resources you may need are available to you. During pregnancy, we emphasize the need for women to get informed…

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Relactation: process and stages

21 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Relactation is the process of restoring a mother’s breast milk supply after it has decreased or disappeared altogether. For various reasons, mothers may wish to stop supplementing the artificial formula they give their infants and attempt to resume exclusive breastfeeding. Correcting the cause of relactation Before starting with the relactation process, the causes that led to the initiation of supplementing formula must be investigated as in some situations, it will be very unlikely that relactation can be achieved. These situations…

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7 tricks to keep your breastfeeding baby from twiddling

21 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Does your breastfeeding baby or toddler play with your nipples when breastfeeding? At about 10 to 15 months, children improve their fine motor skills a lot, and they often start with what is called twiddling.Now, every day, they become more skilled at holding a grip with their index finger and thumb. This is undoubtedly a great advance in their fine motor skills, but it can also be an uncomfortable nuisance for breastfeeding mothers. At this point, babies begin with ‘twiddling’…

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Breastfeeding during pregnancy

19 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

When a breastfeeding mother becomes pregnant, she may find herself with mixed feelings and questions about whether or not to continue breastfeeding her older child. She may even hear negative comments about continuing to breastfeed during pregnancy, which may come from family and friends as well as healthcare professionals. There are many fears and misconceptions associated with breastfeeding during pregnancy: a perceived increased risk of miscarriage, that the babies or the mother will suffer from nutritional deficiencies, that the older…

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My baby pulls away from the breast when milk sprays out – oversupply

14 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

The fountain in the picture is in the city of Nuremberg (Germany) and depicts the six Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity, Courage, Temperance, and Patience, crowned by the figure of Justice. All 6 statues have “milk” in the form of water coming out of their breasts and spraying out. Most women are worried about having too little breast milk, so this amount of milk is almost everyone’s dream: a free flow of milk sprays! Many mothers may wish for this, but…

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My baby wants to breastfeed constantly

12 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Although you may have heard that babies breastfeed constantly, when your baby arrives, it may actually surprise you how often they nurse. Usually, we are simply not prepared for this! Babies breastfeed for many months, from 8 to 12 times in any 24 hours, which means that you will spend many hours with your baby glued to your breast. You also have to remember that babies take a long time to complete a feed during their first months. They can…

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Is it ok to give a breastfed baby an occasional bottle of formula?

7 June, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Mothers often ask in the LactApp if it is okay to occasionally give their breastfed baby a bottle. Here we won’t talk about returning to (paid) work, which implies a change in family organization, but about those punctual times, when you need cover for a specific occasion: a meeting, a dinner with friends, a short visit, or a doctor’s appointment for example. Official WHO health guidelines recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby’s life. This means,…

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