It seems inevitable. For many of us, the holidays bring joy and festivity, but also stress and an overfull to-do list. New parents are often…
Pregnancy and/or infant loss brings tremendous and life-altering sorrow to expectant families. In particular, the death of a child upends the imagined trajectory of the…
Many mothers start out with the goal of breastfeeding exclusively for 6 months. But often things don’t go as the mother had hoped. Perhaps she…
Like civilians, parents in the military service of their country face many issues: mixed messages about how to breastfeed, living far from their extended families,…
You’re getting ready to pump your milk and store it for later use. You’ve read books, talked to your friends, and checked online, but you’re…
For years, parents of a crying baby were often told to let them “cry it out” and warned that responding to “every” cry would have…
You feel sure you’ve got milk, but your baby isn’t getting it. A few experts have insisted that he has a posterior tongue-tie. Others assert…
So your newborn is having difficulty breastfeeding, and three different experts have said he has a posterior tongue-tie, and needs laser surgery! Yet, your pediatrician…
You tell yourself this time will be different. You tell yourself breastfeeding is supposed to be a joyful experience. You want to deny that you’ve…
You may have already heard about the miraculous powers of colostrum, the “liquid gold” that is the first milk a mother’s body makes for her…