Any mother could feel anxious about the first days of breastfeeding when everything is new, and we are invaded by doubts and fears. In this post, we talk about what we can pay attention at the first few days after the birth of our baby and that it will let you know how things are going. Pain: For the first 15-17 days, when your baby latches on to your breast, you may feel a pinching sensation, which should not last…
Some cultures have considered — and some alarmingly still do — that colostrum is useless or bad and should therefore be avoided. In these cases, babies have even been left for several hours, sometimes days, without eating anything at all or were fed with traditional preparations. But nothing could be further from the truth since colostrum is unique liquid gold, perfectly adapted to the specific needs of a newborn baby. Colostrum begins to appear between 12-16 weeks of pregnancy and…
There are multiple circumstances in which a mother decides to choose exclusive pumping instead of breastfeeding directly; this means expressing her milk either manually or mechanically and offering it to the baby in a bottle or other container. It can make it easier for you to know more about it and some situations that can occur when you consider this option. Is breastfeeding directly the same thing as giving expressed milk with a bottle? We could say that offering expressed…