Archive for the 'Breastfeeding' Category
Breastfeeding through illness
While becoming ill while breastfeeding can be exhausting and an additional worry, it is generally fine to nurse through most common illnesses. Always, if you are worried consult your GP, but in the vast majority of illnesses, it is fine to carry on breastfeeding as normal. In fact the only illness considered to have contraindications […]
Breastfeeding & Thrush
Breastfeeding has been going really well, but all of a sudden your nipples are in agony. It seems as though it’s come out of nowhere and to the best of your knowledge you haven’t been doing anything differently to cause it. It could be thrush! Thrush is a fungal infection caused by candida or yeast, […]
Breastfeeding: Positioning, latch and attachment
In the beginning, when breastfeeding a newborn, paying special attention to positioning and attachment is important to avoid a poor or shallow latch that will hurt your nipples and make feeding difficult. That said, there is no right or wrong here, as long as your baby is getting and drinking milk, and you know this because […]
Breastfeeding after a C-Section: 8 steps to stimulating milk production
Many moms aren’t prepared for the fact that breastfeeding after a C-section can take time, and then struggle to establish feeding or feel guilty for not continuing. Even the best laid plans go to pot sometimes. I planned two home births and ended up with a Caesarean section. Having personal experience of breastfeeding two babies […]
When breastfeeding is not working – who you gonna call?
Breastfeeding is wonderfully enjoyable for lots of mums, but it is not unusual to have some difficulty in the beginning. These difficulties are usually very straightforward to diagnose and therefore fix. Occasionally, it takes a bit of trial and error and ruling things out, but for every breastfeeding problem there is a breastfeeding solution! It’s really […]
How to Increase Your Breastmilk Supply (once you work out if you actually need to)
Every newly breastfeeding mum has a little (or a lot) of anxiety about whether she’s producing enough milk at some stage of her nursing journey. Unfortunately, it’s usually an idea put in her head by third party, rather than an instinctual feeling. To help, here’s a list of things that are usually NOT a sign […]
How to be an amazing breastfeeding partner
Breastfeeding is a lot of work. Wonderful, satisfying, beautiful, enjoyable, awe-inspiring, exhausting work. Mum is going to be working hard, but there is plenty a supportive partner can do to help and support her and make the journey an exciting and enjoyable family affair. 1. Never say “will we not just give the baby a bottle” […]
11 Breastfeeding Tips for New Mums
At The elbowroom we are passionate about promoting breastfeeding while supporting and empowering mums-to-be and new mums. Whether it’s through our prenatal yoga classes, our postnatal mum and baby classes, our breastfeeding workshops or our new mum’s group, we are always working to normalise breastfeeding while encouraging and supporting mums. Here are my top tips for newly breastfeeding […]
Understanding reflux and how to help the reflux baby
Your baby is feeding and spitting up milk. That is a normal problem. A laundry problem yes, but none the less normal. However, in some cases the spitting up of milk becomes quite frequent and starts to cause the baby distress. If your baby displays these symptoms, they may have a medical condition known as […]
How to know if your breastfeeding baby getting enough milk?
Is your breastfeeding baby getting enough milk? Here is a post I wrote for Eumom about how you know if you baby is getting enough milk. I have copied it under here for you to read if you can’t make this weekend’s breastfeeding workshop (best to go when your are pregnant but new mums very welcome). I […]