Although you may have heard that babies breastfeed constantly, when your baby arrives, it may actually surprise you how often they nurse. Usually, we are simply not prepared for this! Babies breastfeed for many months, from 8 to 12 times in any 24 hours, which means that you will spend many hours with your baby glued to your breast. You also have to remember that babies take a long time to complete a feed during their first months. They can…
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…
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…
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,…
High-demand baby – at LactApp, we don’t like labels, nor does anyone else as we grow up with them: the lazy one, the smart one, the grumpy one, the drama queen, and so on. But sometimes, by trying to escape from them, every description seems like a burden, far from the truth. Often, putting a name to what happens to us makes us feel calmer and start positively enjoying or living things. In motherhood, being able to name things is…
What is the 4-month sleep regression? Is there such a thing as a 4-month breastfeeding crisis? Throughout the breastfeeding journey, there are many moments of change. In fact, the baby’s entire first year brings many changes. When babies are born, their brain still needs to learn a great lot of things, as they are biologically very immature. They need to learn so many things, such as talking, sitting, walking… and one of the big things they have to learn is…
Weaning your baby from the breast and stop breastfeeding after one year is possible. If you’ve made it to one year of breastfeeding or beyond, first of all, congratulations! Usually, it’s not at all easy to get to this point. It’s also likely that you’ve gone almost 365 days without good sleep and are exhausted by your baby’s demands. So, if you are considering weaning or want to start now, this post is for you. When you ask yourself the…
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…
A growth spurt, also sometimes called a breastfeeding crisis, is a response by the baby to a clear increase in milk demand. Your baby will now ask to breastfeed at all times and may be nervous, irritable, and seemingly insatiable. Coincidentally, these demand increases occur around the same time for all babies. This shows that it is a common, biological, and necessary behavior that most of us go through. Some mothers may not notice it, but most do, and it…
Help or not help my baby walk? Walking is a great milestone in a baby’s motor development. On average, babies begin to walk on their own between 9 and 18 months. However, it is important to keep in mind that each baby develops at their own pace, and there can be considerable variations within this age range. Some babies start taking their first steps at around 9-12 months (sometimes even at 8 months), while others may slow down and don’t…