Guest blog by Kater Herzel, professional doula and co-owner of Heartland Doulas. Congratulations! You’ve decided how you’re going to feed your baby, and we support your choice! Whether breast milk or formula, one thing is almost certain: You will feed your baby from a bottle, at some point. Here are five things I know about bottle feeding:[…]
Picture this: You have finally arrived safely at home with your new little wiggly bundle, thankful to be off the terrifyingly dangerous roads that just 48 hours ago seemed like a great way to get from point A to point B. Now that you’re home safe and sound, you’re pretty sure you won’t try that[…]
Wednesday was National Twin Day! We love working with multiples families, walking alongside them through their birthing year and beyond. We’d like to take a look at what it’s like for parents of twins and celebrate the many varied ways that parents handle this special family dynamic. My own husband is a twin and it’s[…]
Then you don’t have to. It really is as simple as that. Over the last few years the push to get back to breastfeeding and increase the rates of long term breastfeeding has increased at a steady pace. We all know why it’s important, we all know the science, but there are many many reasons[…]
This is the last in my Breastfeeding Sabotage Series, but I would argue that it is the very most important one. Even if your overall health during pregnancy was stellar; if you had a 100% natural birth with no interventions that made breastfeeding difficult; if you had the very best IBCLC in your hospital room immediately postpartum;[…]
So far in this series we’ve discussed how what you do in pregnancy, labor, and immediate hours after your baby is born can affect your breastfeeding relationship. Today we’re going to discuss the sabotage you may come across in your fourth trimester (the first three months after baby is born) and for the rest of your breastfeeding relationship. Having a Lactation Consultant come visit you in the hospital[…]
As mentioned in my previous posts in this series, breastfeeding sabotage can happen any time. It can begin in the womb, or during labor. Most often, it begins in immediate postpartum, right after baby is born. No matter where you have your baby, whether you have a home birth or a hospital birth, the immediate postpartum period[…]