Increasing my dosage?
February 5, 2015
So whose advice do you take? The midwife who you have literally trusted with your life and the lives of your children, who is also
So whose advice do you take? The midwife who you have literally trusted with your life and the lives of your children, who is also
I fluctuate so dramatically and rapidly with how I feel about our current feeding situation, at four months. One day I absolutely love it and
The last week has been rough. Both of my boys and I are all very sick, my littlest boy the sickest, and we have been
I have been so amped to write about how I completely managed a full day out of the house yesterday with only the expressed breast
So now I have this huge freezer stash of breast milk. Woot! Now. The logistics. There seems to be a steep learning curve when it
I woke up today to find this message on my phone from my beautiful midwife: Good morning dear Jo. It might be x-mas and easter
So we have reached three months! And one day. I have been breastfeeding for over three months! Those first three months were the months that
I read a great article recently on finding the joy in motherhood. She suggests at the conclusion of the post to spend one or two minutes at
There is so much going on in my boob-brain right now (it’s located just left of the overthinking cortex, in case you were wondering). I
I was going to call this post ‘Poo’, but decided against it. There will be a small mention of wee too. Haha. However, if poo
I have a friend who has an abundance of breastmilk. Here in Switzerland, there does not exist a breastmilk bank where I can gain access
Those cheeks! That’s where all that milk is going! So I had about four days of bliss, where my bubba was audibly gulping down my
It is ten days since I started taking Domperidone in an attempt to increase my milk production. The last four days, my little one has
It feels a bit like things are not running so smoothly with the feeding over the past few days. When I analyse it, it has
I have started taking Domperidone. Let’s add that to the list of ‘things’ I am taking each day: 6 x Domperidone 10mg 1x Burgerstein Schwangerschaft
My littlest baby is eight weeks old today. I remember when my big baby was eight weeks old. He is two and a half now,
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