Four Ways to Ensure Breastfeeding Success Step Four: Surround Yourself with Supportive People Know those people in your life who aren’t so enamored with the act of breastfeeding? You know, those people who are offended by babies eating nature’s perfect food? Well, push their presence aside for a few months. Instead, surround yourself with people [...]

Four Ways to Ensure Breastfeeding Success — Step Three: Arm Yourself with Supplies Baby? Check. Breasts? Check. That’s all you need to breastfeed, right? Right. But there are many products that, while not completely necessary, can make breastfeeding a whole lot easier. Besides for having breastfeeding books, you may want to purchase a nursing pillow. [...]

Four Ways to Ensure Breastfeeding Success Step Two:  Ensure a Proper Latch Know how your nipples are cracked and sore from nursing? That’s because you haven’t perfected your latch. The sooner you get the right latch, the less time you’ll be in pain. You’ll know when your baby has a proper latch. It’ll feel comfortable [...]

Four Ways to Ensure Breastfeeding Success Step One: Prepare Yourself Before the Birth While there’s nothing you can do to physically prepare yourself for breastfeeding (harshly rub those nipples all you want—it won’t help!), you’ll want to learn all you can about nursing before you try it. You don’t have to become an expert, but [...]

This post is the third in a series. To see the others, click on the “bad breastfeeding advice” tag. Three Pieces of Breastfeeding Advice to Ignore — Bad Advice #3: “Babies shouldn’t breastfeed beyond [six months, one year, etc]. Mothers who nurse their toddlers are doing it more for themselves than for their babies.” There [...]

(This is second in a series of posts. To see the others, click on the “bad breastfeeding advice” tag.) Three Pieces of Breastfeeding Advice to Ignore — Bad Advice #2: “Whatever you do, don’t let baby sleep in your bed.” While co-sleeping may not be the answer for all families, it can make nighttime breastfeeding [...]

This is the first in a series of posts on breastfeeding advice you can feel free to ignore.  Click on the tag “bad breastfeeding advice” to see the others! Bad Breastfeeding Advice #1: “Don’t nurse your baby all the time or she’ll become too dependent. You must wait and feed your baby every few hours.” [...]