My Magic Power
June 27, 2015
This last week has made me so incredibly thankful for all that we have been through to become a breastfeeding mama and bubba. I know
This last week has made me so incredibly thankful for all that we have been through to become a breastfeeding mama and bubba. I know
I have so many half-written posts saved to my computer that have begun to discuss Postnatal Depression and then fizzle into nothing. And, despite the
My Little One is now seven months old and only now do I have the time to write his wonderful birth story. Thus is the
Sure, I had heard about biters. In fact, before I was a mama, I used to think that sprouting teeth was nature’s way of telling
My littlest boy, or The Little One, as he has been dubbed in our household, is seven months old now. We have been exclusively breastfeeding
I have news. I am on the way to becoming a lactation consultant. I fear it may take me a decade, quite literally, but the
This is the first chance I’ve had to write since the bottle incident. Apologies for leaving it so up in the air, but I needed
So this happened… and not by choice. Not out of the woods, it seems. (Edit: This was after his posterior tongue tie was snipped, but
It has been eleven days now since I have used any supplement. In four days, my little boy will be six months old. Right now,
After five and a half months of believing without a doubt that I have low milk supply — no, make that almost three years, seeing
I had planned on seeing a lactation consultant while here on holiday in Australia. It seems that the medical professional’s approach to breastfeeding is very
5 months on, and we are still boobin’. Still using the tubes.Still using Domperidone.Still eating and drinking galactagogues.Still taking Saint John’s Wort.Still getting frustrated at
I’m having a super grumpy morning. Be warned. Yes, I know, if you went by this blog alone, you’d think that my entire life was
I’m writing this right now from a couch in a little beach shack in Manly, Australia. We are visiting from Switzerland for five weeks for
I just had a moment. Context: These past few days I have been feeling like I have more milk. The very rare and random occasions
Why don’t I make enough milk for my baby? WHY DON’T I MAKE ENOUGH MILK FOR MY BABY?! Yes I am screaming. I am over
So when CAN you use the Haakaa*? In my last post, I wrote about some of the issues that I see from clients of
So you’ve probably seen these ‘passive pump’ / ‘silicone pump thingies’ around (a lot of people call them a ‘Haakaa’, the name of the company
Very often, when driving to a home visit, I get a message on my phone: ‘He’s hungry! Should I feed him?! Should I try to wait?’
So I’m going to be all serious now, and add some information here about dehydration in babies. I’ve spoken often about how exclusively breastfed babies
Have you every tried a Supplemental Nursing System (SNS)? Looks kind of complicated and scary, right? It doesn’t need to be! Let me make it
I thought, like many mums of breastfeeding toddlers, that it would be totally impossible to night wean my two year old. Any time I read