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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 makes clicking noises when breastfeeding

3 April, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

When a baby makes clicking noises while breastfeeding, it sounds a bit like a “click-click” sound produced by the baby’s tongue while suckling. Sometimes, the clicking is so obvious that it is quite loud, and mothers become concerned. In this article, we will look at the possible causes of clicking, when it may be best to take action, or when you should be patient and just wait for it to pass. Why does it happen, and what can be done…

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Changes in sexuality due to a state of low estrogen in the postpartum period

29 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

By Carolina Solá, physiotherapist specializing in pelvic floor health Sexuality is subjective and diverse. It is determined by different physical, psychological, emotional, and social factors. Sexual health is precisely understood as the state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being, not only by the absence of disease or dysfunction related to sexuality. Therefore, sexual health requires a positive and respectful approach. Sexuality changes according to the person’s stages of life. During postpartum and breastfeeding, we must also consider that hormonal…

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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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Breastfed baby poop: the color palette

22 March, 2024 LactApp Comments 0 Comment

Families are often worried about their baby’s poop when they have a newborn: about appearance, smell, texture and amount of poop. When first getting into the wonderful world of baby poop, we realize that there is a huge palette of possible colors that makes you doubt each change of color, so here we explain one by one each of the possibilities with this color “palette” of poop. It may seem unbelievable, but from the first week after birth, baby poop…

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Speech therapy specializing in myofunctional therapy during lactation

22 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

By Adriana Palacios, myofunctional speech therapist. Speech therapy specializing in myofunctional therapy is responsible for evaluating, diagnosing, and addressing possible disorders in the stomatognathic system (SS). This system consists of the oral functions of sucking, breathing, chewing, swallowing, and speech. The proper functioning of the stomatognathic system is involved in craniofacial development and, therefore, will impact all stages of the individual’s life. These oral functions are formed by different structures that encompass the muscles of the upper, middle, and lower…

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Mother-led weaning (from 18 months onwards)

20 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

What happens when a mother decides it’s time to stop breastfeeding? What difficulties can she face? How does the baby’s age impact this? In this article, we discuss mother-led weaning of children aged 18 months and older. How does it all begin? “I have a 26-month-old child and I can’t anymore. I feel bad, but I have to do it. I don’t want to continue. I don’t feel like breastfeeding anymore. I’m tired of her asking me non-stop and the…

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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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Is science backing up baby-led weaning (BLW)?

15 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

Baby-led weaning (BLW) is an approach to initiating complementary feeding and introducing solids to babies. In this method, children feed themselves with their own hands and are not spoon-fed mashed or pureed baby food. This method encourages the infant to be the active individual in their feeding journey and not a passive receptor of food, as happens with traditional spoon feeding. This way, infants self-regulate, favoring perceptive feeding based on the child’s hunger and satiety signals. The concept of Baby-Led…

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International Women’s Day in Breastfeeding Care

8 March, 2024 LactApp UK Comments 0 Comment

When it comes to breastfeeding, much has been written and said about the benefits of breastfeeding for the health of mothers and babies, and they are repeated over and over again. However, there is a glaring lack of research on pain care during breastfeeding, difficulties with low milk supply, how to accompany weaning, or how to care for breastfeeding when it is not satisfying, among others. We know that the field of scientific knowledge about women’s health is limited. Often,…

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