Reading Time: 5 minutes Guest Post by Erinn of Embracing Everything This post is part of the Breast-Kept Secrets: Breastfeeding Advice from One Mom to Another series. Go back and read all posts here. If I learned anything during the first few months of exclusively pumping, it was that it’s HARD. Not just hard physically but emotionally, too. I became […]
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Nursing Through Breast Injury
Reading Time: 4 minutes Guest Post by Laura of The Merry Mennonite This post is part of the Breast-Kept Secrets: Breastfeeding Advice from One Mom to Another series. Go back and read all posts here. Note: This post will be fairly subjective. It reflects my experiences with a breastfeeding issue on which I could find little to no information. When […]
Colostrum: Baby’s First Superfood
Reading Time: 2 minutes This post is part of the Breast-Kept Secrets: Breastfeeding Advice from One Mom to Another series. Go back and read all posts here. When I first became a mother, I was devastated that my milk did not arrive by the time I left the hospital. In fact, it didn’t arrive until my baby was five […]
10 Tips to Conquer the First Month of Breastfeeding
Reading Time: 5 minutes The first month of breastfeeding can really be the most difficult weeks of breastfeeding. But don’t give up! Here are 10 tips to conquer early breastfeeding challenges! #5 is probably the most overlooked. This post is part of the Breast-Kept Secrets: Breastfeeding Advice from One Mom to Another series. The first month of breastfeeding can […]
The BEST Breastfeeding Advice–Ever
Reading Time: 2 minutes This post is part of the Breast-Kept Secrets: Breastfeeding Advice from One Mom to Another series. Go back and read all posts here. I’ll never forget how I struggled as a first-time breastfeeding mom–especially during the early days! My milk did not arrive until day 5, and I clearly remember taking a bath and looking […]
5 Benefits of Breastfeeding
Reading Time: 3 minutes This post is part of the Breast-Kept Secrets: Breastfeeding Advice from One Mom to Another series. Go back and read all posts here. There are many benefits of breastfeeding, but there are some benefits that just made this way of nourishing my baby a no-brainer for me. These are the reasons I chose breastfeeding in […]