Everyone knows that premature babies need a lot of care and attention, but have you ever heard of late preterm babies who are also called near-term babies? When is a baby considered late preterm? Late preterm babies are those born between 34+0 and 36+6 weeks of pregnancy. When they are born at 34-35 weeks, it is possible that they spend a few days in a neonatal unit, but many times, babies who are born close to 36 weeks of pregnancy…
Breastfeeding support groups are a fundamental resource for any mother who wants to breastfeed. They are an important meeting point for mothers in very similar situations. What is a breastfeeding support group? There are many different support groups for mothers, and among them, there are those that are dedicated breastfeeding support groups. There are also more general groups about parenting and maternity. In a breastfeeding support group, you can find: Other mothers like you who are interested in breastfeeding, either…
The FreLac team (1), with extensive experience in the care of ankyloglossia, has recently published an article proposing a new classification for tongue-tie (more on its prevalence here). Until now, the most commonly used classifications have been mainly anatomical, focusing on the appearance of the frenulum without taking into account its symptomatology. The FreLac team’s proposal takes into consideration both, the anatomy and the related symptomatology. They propose 4 types of limiting sublingual frenulum: Anterior tongue-tie This is a frenulum…
“My baby is 4 months old. Two weeks ago, I had to start giving him formula as he was not gaining enough weight. The first days were fine, but now he doesn’t want to breastfeed anymore. Every time I approach him to my breast, he gets angry and cries. I feel very bad, I am so sad. And when I talk about it to my family, nobody understands me.” When something like this happens, and it is unexpected, when a…
Many of you may have noticed that with pregnancy or after the birth of your baby, women usually sweat more, and body odor changes compared to how it was before pregnancy. Not to mention that you will notice that your ability to perceive certain odors increases during this period of time. This often makes you look for ways to contain that odor with deodorants, either to feel more comfortable or to avoid making the people around you uncomfortable. This is…
At the end of September, the scientific journal International Journal of Medical Informatics published an article on the evaluation of user usability and usefulness of LactApp. Here we summarize the article. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the usability and usefulness of LactApp as a mobile app to support breastfeeding. In addition, it also aimed to evaluate the satisfaction of breastfeeding mothers with the breastfeeding support received from health professionals, their families, and society. Methodology A prospective…
When you are breastfeeding, there seems to be a certain moment on the horizon that you are waiting for. It’s like passing stages in a videogame and wanting to arrive at the long-awaited moment when you are told (and start to believe) that the baby will supposedly breastfeed less and space out their feeds. So, is it true? Does a baby’s demand for breastfeeding decrease as they get older? Well, no, it doesn’t. Demand for breastfeeding does not decrease as…
In August 2023, the Cochrane Library published a literature review on the use of breastfeeding or expressed breast milk for pain relief in neonatal procedures. Within routine procedures of care in healthy newborns, as well as in pathological situations, it is quite common to have procedures that can be painful, such as performing heel prick tests or obtaining blood samples. On many occasions, different strategies are used to alleviate the newborn’s pain during the performance of these techniques. There are…
Is there an 8-month breastfeeding crisis? Your baby has grown a lot in the last months, not long before they reach their first birthday, and there are still many things they have yet to learn. When babies are 8-9 months old, many changes happen, which can surprise and worry us at the same time. Is this also one of those stages called a breastfeeding crisis? So what happens at this stage? The first thing that is usually noticed is that…
Authors Sofia Gaggiotti Marre, MD, PhDGynecologist and Obstetrician Specialist physician in fertility treatmentsPuigvert Foundation-Sant Pau HospitalFertty, Spain Beatriz Álvaro Mercadal, MD, PhDPhD in Gynecology and ObstetricsSpecialist physician in fertility treatmentsPuigvert Foundation-Sant Pau Hospital Introduction Many women who are breastfeeding and must undergo fertility treatment to conceive a second child find that healthcare professionals advise or even oblige them to stop breastfeeding in order tocarry out treatment. Just as there are professionals who still advise against laser hair removal, surgery, or…