Today we share with you the breastfeeding story of a user whose problems with breastfeeding made her doubt her instincts: “I was losing confidence in myself.” | If you also want to share your story with our readers and app users, please send it over to [email protected]. Every day was a battle. I was convinced I would be breastfeeding my daughter, and the first few days seemed to be going great. The healthcare professionals told me the latch was…
When a breastfeeding woman comes to primary care for information on contraception, questions may arise about the best method for her situation. This article reviews the most appropriate birth control methods for breastfeeding women and their compatibility with breastfeeding. Contraception methods are those actions, devices, or medications that are used to prevent pregnancy and are also known as birth control. For breastfeeding women, there are many effective and safe contraceptive methods to choose from. As in the general non-breastfeeding population,…
Over and over again, we hear the same question: “Why am I in pain if they tell me my baby is latching on well? The main causes of breastfeeding pain for mothers are: Incorrect breastfeeding positioning: the baby’s body has to maintain a straight line: the ear, shoulder, and hip must remain aligned regardless of the position chosen for breastfeeding. Incorrect posture: each breast is different, and for this reason, you should try to trace an imaginary line from the center…
When you are breastfeeding and have to fly without your baby, your breast pump will be your best friend. But flying with breast milk in your hand luggage is not always allowed when you don’t travel with your baby. A Mexican congresswoman has put this issue on the table in her country with an initiative that calls for this to be allowed. In Mexico, pumped breast milk can only be transported when flying with a baby. Otherwise, it must be…
During the second trimester of your pregnancy, the questions that arise during the process change. Let’s answer the most frequently asked questions: When will I notice my pregnant belly? If this is your first pregnancy, you may feel that your belly doesn’t show. This is very common. The uterus, which will multiply its size at the end of pregnancy by 500 (500!), is growing slowly. To give you an idea, in week 12 of pregnancy, your uterus has not yet…
For the first time in 13 years, the United States Congress has passed a new law to support breastfeeding and working mothers: the PUMP Act or Providing Urgent Maternal Protections for Nursing Mothers Act. This legislation extends breastfeeding protection at work to more than 9 million employees who were unprotected under the previous law, which did not cover all sectors. Which employees are covered by the Pump Act? The vast majority, as long as they work in a company with…
After 12 months, do you breastfeed before or after solid food? How do you transition from breastfeeding to food? What happens if your child prefers breastmilk? How and when do you make the transition from breastfeeding to complementary feeding and introducing solids? You can start including solid food in your child’s diet from 6 months of a baby’s life or whenever your child is ready. These foods complement breastmilk, which is why they are known as complementary feeding, so the…
If you want to stop breastfeeding at night, you might wonder if by doing so, you will also end co-sleeping at the same time. Every family is different, and both can happen: some families want to wean and stop breastfeeding during the night but don’t want to stop co-sleeping with their children, and some want their children to sleep in their own room as well. Is it possible to wean at night and continue to breastfeed? And if I want…
When you become a mother, you put your baby first, and you take a backseat. So much so that you might even look at a hairdresser salon with nostalgia, remembering the days when you did have the time to go there. But the hardest thing is, when you finally do get that time for yourself, it turns out that you have to fight a lot of myths and false beliefs about beauty treatments and breastfeeding, such as “you can’t dye…
Tongue-tie (or ankyloglossia) is an infant’s limitation of protruding and elevating the tip of the tongue due to a short lingual frenulum and/or restriction of the genioglossus muscles. Tongue-tie influences the growth and development of the mouth cavity and affects functional processes such as chewing, sucking, swallowing, and speech. In addition, the clinical appearance of ankyloglossia can result in painful breastfeeding, an inability to obtain an effective latch, and, as a consequence, poor weight gain. What is the prevalence of…