I am a mom of a six-year-old girl and a twenty-five-month-old toddler with whom I just started weaning five days ago. I thought I was totally ready, but as I keep him away from my breast, I realize that I would still love to have him attached for another few months. But then I remember the anxiety I felt in the last few weeks and I stand my ground again. Leo is a high-demand baby. I found this out because…
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…
“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…
We have selected the Top 100 maternity content creators in Spain and Latin America and now it’s up to you to be the jury to decide who is the best in each category. From Tuesday 25 June until 14 July, voting will take place for the most outstanding Spanish-speaking maternity content creators of 2024. ACCESS THE VOTING (only in Spanish) What is the LactApp Creators project? Every year, LactApp launches a research project in the breastfeeding and maternity sector. This…
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…
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’…
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…
It happens very often, at the beginning of breastfeeding, that doubts arise regarding if you need to put your baby to burb after breastfeeding. But in fact, you don’t need to burp breastfed babies at all after each feed. This is an idea that comes directly from bottle feeding, where babies do swallow air and, therefore, you do need to put a bottle-fed baby to burp after they had a bottle. When a baby breastfeeds well, which means that the…
As breastfeeding experts, we must be able to evaluate a feed and recognize warning signs that alert a professional to its lack of safety and efficacy. Feeding at the breast is physiological for newborns and, as has been pointed out, the patterns of an infant born at term with adequate weight should be mature, effective, and safe (Rendón-Macías et al., 2012; Shandley et al., 2021). Despite this, there are situations in which infants will present disturbances in the feeding process…
It is very common for mothers to feel at some point during their breastfeeding journey that their baby fights breastfeeding. When a baby behaves in this way and is fuzzy at the breast, all alarms immediately go off, and there are a thousand thoughts you could have related to this behavior: maybe I don’t have enough milk, my baby doesn’t like my milk, my baby rejects me or my baby doesn’t like it and so on. When a baby does…