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Breast compressions: how to help your baby to get more milk

15 May, 2024 Alba Padró Comments 0 Comment

How can you help your baby to get more milk out of your breast? With breast compressions. When a baby doesn’t drink enough milk and doesn’t gain enough weight or has difficulties making efficient sucking motions, this forces them to feed constantly to get the amount of milk they need. Here is how you can help your baby with this simple technique. This method is very simple and allows you, as a breastfeeding mother, to optimize feeds and shorten the…

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Nipple confusion: what it is and how to accompany it

5 April, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Nipple confusion (or nipple-teat confusion): difficulties of a baby to feed at the breast after drinking milk from a baby bottle teat. Controversy It has been debated for years whether nipple-teat confusion exists or if it is a misconception. The truth is that we can encounter everything: babies who can suckle at the breast, a bottle teat, a pacifier, and nipple shields interchangeably, and others who get a bottle teat in their mouths and don’t seem to know how to…

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My baby seems to choke when breastfeeding

27 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Some mothers have had a scare when their baby seems to choke when breastfeeding for a few seconds, in the middle of a feed at the breast. The reasons why a baby chokes while breastfeeding can vary. Let’s take a look at the most common causes: Hyperactive milk ejection reflex Some mothers have a powerful milk ejection (or milk let-down) reflex. Their breastmilk sprays out with a lot of force. This is usually not a problem for older babies, who…

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5 tricks to get rid of nipple shields

15 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

When starting out with breastfeeding, mothers are often advised to use nipple shields. Maybe the baby does not seem to be able to latch on well, the mother is in pain, or someone simply considers that the mother’s nipple might “not be good enough” for breastfeeding. There may come a time when you get tired of them and you wan’t to get rid of nipple shields, because they are not practical: you have to make sure they stay in place,…

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Colostrum harvesting before birth

13 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Colostrum harvesting before birth is a method that allows small amounts of colostrum to be collected during pregnancy, which, after the birth of the baby, can be given if necessary. This avoids the use of formula milk when supplementing is necessary. History of colostrum harvesting Although this may seem to be a fairly recent method, it is not. Until the late seventies and eighties, all women were encouraged to collect colostrum in the final stages of their pregnancy. Historically, the…

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Nipple ischemia: three possible causes

6 March, 2024 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

“It all begins at the end of the feed. My nipple turns white and starts hurting. It hurts a lot and I don’t know what it is. Then, when I am in the shower or go outside and it is cold, the pain comes back again. What can it be?“ What this mother is describing is called nipple ischemia, which is a lack of blood supply that can cause a lot of pain. Ischemia can occur for many different reasons,…

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Galactocele: what is it, and how can it affect breastfeeding?

29 January, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Today, we talk about a common benign condition in breastfeeding: the galactocele. Here is what it is and how it affects breastfeeding. It’s a harmless process that can occur during breastfeeding and that appears as a lump or cyst in the breast. What is a galactocele, and why does it appear? A galactocele is the accumulation of breastmilk fat material outside the mammary ducts. It happens when a small cyst forms and stays inside the mammary gland because it has…

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Developmental leaps at 4 and 8 months

11 January, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

We have already discussed the different developmental leaps, growth spurts, and breastfeeding crises and their causes, such as the 15 to 20-day or 3-month breastfeeding crises. Today, we will look at what, at LactApp, we call a false breastfeeding crisis, which also exists. So what is that, a false breastfeeding crisis? Let us explain. We call them “false” because, as a mother, you might think this challenging situation is related to your own milk supply. Still, in reality, it is…

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Supplemental Nursing System (SNS): Questions & Answers

21 December, 2023 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

The supplemental nursing system (SNS) is relatively unknown until you need it. We receive many consultations on using a supplemental nursing system (SNS) as a supplementation method during breastfeeding. When we think of a system to supplement milk to a baby, the first thing that comes into mind is usually a baby bottle. So, we have talked in another article about the different types of supplementation methods, and today, we focus on the supplemental nursing system (SNS) and answer the…

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Is there a breastfeeding crisis at 5 or 6 months?

4 December, 2023 Alba Padró Comments 0 Comment

Many mothers talk about a breastfeeding crisis at 5 or 6 months of the baby’s life. It has taken some time to understand this crisis, which does not appear in manuals and happens almost exclusively with an exaggerated increase in demand for night feeds. We have already talked about the 3-month breastfeeding crisis and the developmental leap at 4 months (also called sleep “regression”), where most babies go through a so-called breastfeeding crisis. Babies start to sleep less at night,…

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