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Understanding Alcohol And Breastfeeding

Understanding the full picture around breastfeeding and alcohol is difficult. Advice has changed over the decades, and at the moment is inconsistent across sources. In...

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Understanding The Composition Of Breast Milk And Infant Formula

What's in Breast Milk? Water makes up about 88% of mature breast milk. Lactose is the main sugar (carbohydrate) in breast milk. Breast milk also...

Partners And Breastfeeding

Decisions around infant feeding are often made as a family. However, the bulk of research on impacting factors focus on the breastfeeding mother’s experience and...

Understanding D-MER (Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex)

D-MER is a condition experienced by some breastfeeding women. It is a negative emotional or mood change that occurs in tandem with the milk ejection...

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How To Know Baby Is Getting Enough Breast Milk

When breastfeeding, it is not always possible to know exactly how much milk baby is getting. If breastfeeding is going well, and baby is being...

Understanding Mastitis And Blocked Ducts

Blocked ducts and mastitis are complications women can experience when breastfeeding. In this post we will discuss the symptoms and ways to treat each condition...

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Understanding Growth Charts And Infant Weight Monitoring

Monitoring infant weight helps us assess their health and nutritional status. When concerns with health or nutrition are identified early, outcomes are often better. This...

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Infant Feeding And Depression

The postpartum period comes with many highs and lows. This is to be expected given the hormonal fluctuations and the new challenges that caring for...

Understanding Tongue Tie

Tongue tie is understood to be an anatomical difference where the lingual frenulum (piece of tissue connecting the tongue to the base of the mouth)...

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Nipple Confusion Explained

Nipple confusion refers to the difficulty some breastfed babies may experience when introduced to bottle or dummy teats. While some infants switch between feeding methods...