Hand Expression for Breastfeeding: What It Is, How to Do It, and Why It Matters
How to hand express breast milk — and get breastfeeding off to a great start.
Breast Pump Flange Sizes Explained (and the Mistake I Made)
Learn from my No. 1 pumping regret.
It’s World Breastfeeding Week: Here’s why that makes me sad
If I’m being honest, I struggle with World Breastfeeding Week, both now as a newly minted IBCLC, and seven years ago when I first became a breastfeeding mom — long before I knew I would completely change careers to become a lactation consultant.
I only have 2 weeks left before my maternity leave ends
In two short weeks, we’ll be cutting the cord. Again. The first time was a flurry of nurses and gunk and numbness as they whisked you to the warmer to examine a limp left arm. You and I had been intertwined since you were mere cells rapidly multiplying in my womb and then suddenly it was over.