Nutrition is an important part of postpartum recovery. You need good nutrition to recover from the losses you have experienced during…

Breastfeeding is HARD! It is a new skill for both you and your baby, and it takes time to learn. Unfortunately you have to learn this new…

The majority of new parents in the United States intend to breastfeed. The health benefits of breastfeeding are well known and many parents long to have a breastfeeding

Many new parents who choose to breastfeed experience anxiety that their child is not getting enough milk. We live in a society that likes to measure things, and the milk an infant receives while breastfeeding is not easily…

This is a photo of one of my morning pumping sessions when my baby was about 11 weeks old. The bottle on the left shows the 4oz that was collected from the left breast, and the bottle on the right shows the less…

Many breastfeeding parents need to feed their babies with bottles at times. However, many have concerns about choosing a bottle that the baby will accept but that will not interfere with their breastfeeding relationship.

This week, August 25-31, is Black Breastfeeding Week. This week we are focused on how we can make the changes to the healthcare system that we need to better support Black women to breastfeed.

World Breastfeeding Weeks is celebrated the first week of August each year to celebrate the signing of the Innocenti Declaration. This declaration was signed by WHO, UNICEF, and…