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Breastfeeding

How to Hand Express Your Breast Milk

Hand expressing your breast milk is especially useful in the early days of breastfeeding. New moms are encouraged to begin hand expressing their colostrum so

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Breastfeeding

When to Introduce the Bottle

Once breastfeeding is going well, your baby can begin drinking your breast milk from a bottle. You should avoid bottle feeding your baby if there

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Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Overview

One of the most important decisions you make will be about breastfeeding your newborn.  Just like pregnancy, it’s very natural but not very intuitive at

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Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Latch

Next to how early you start breastfeeding and how often you feed, baby’s latch is essential to breastfeeding success. A healthy full-term baby knows instinctively

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Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Nutrition

Your nutrition is just as important while you breastfeed as it was during your pregnancy. So how does breastfeeding nutrition differ from your pregnancy diet?

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Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding Challenges

Breastfeeding is the natural way to feed your baby, but that doesn’t mean things will always go smoothly. Breastfeeding is a skill that can take

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Breastfeeding

Postnatal Vitamins While Breastfeeding

Most medical professionals will agree that breastfeeding is the healthiest and best way to feed your new baby. In addition to providing essential vitamins and

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