Donate Your Breastmilk
Are you a breastfeeding mom with a healthy baby? Share your precious breastmilk with babies who need it by becoming a milk donor. A milk bank screens, collects, processes and dispenses donated human...
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Raising Awareness Around Breastfeeding
Sweet Mama and Baby Urban Photography, located in SE Portland, has taken on a special mission – to raise awareness and acceptance of nursing and to capture beautiful images of Mama’s and their Babe’s...
View ArticleFormula Fed America
“Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of America.” Frank Oski, retired editor of Journal of Pediatrics....
View ArticleSupplementing During Pregnancy
There is so much information out there about what supplements to take during pregnancy and what can help specific concerns. First, I’m a big fan of every mom taking a prenatal. Unless you live on a...
View ArticleLow Milk Supply
The amount of milk a mother produces depends on the frequency and effectiveness of the sucking her baby does at the breast. Sucking at the breast causes oxytocin and prolactin to be released by the...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Myths
I’ve pulled these tidbits from various breastfeeding and parenting books and from personal conversations. Shout out goes to Bestfeeding, an awesome awesome breastfeeding book, which is where the...
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Latch and Alternating Breasts During a Feeding can Cause Colic
A mother with her infant at a Government hospital in Chennai during the `World Breast Feeding Week' in August 2004. — Photo: V. Ganesan TWO WEEKS after our son Louis was born, three months ago, he...
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Colostrum – Liquid Gold
Colostrum is your first milk & baby’s first food. Some pregnant mamas can produce colostrum as early as in their second trimester, others not until after baby is born. Colostrum is thicker &...
View ArticleBreastfeeding Guide
A lot of love and work went into creating this breastfeeding guide. Check it out: http://babychangingstation.com/breastfeeding/
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