As natural as breastfeeding is, it isn’t always completely intuitive at first. Here you’ll find helpful tips and tricks to ensure your liquid gold makes it from breast to baby without too much drama.
As parents, we are constantly making decisions about how best to care for our children. Without question, one of the most important decisions you will make in the early days of parenthood is how to feed your newborn. While formula companies spend billions each year on advertising to try to convince us that formula is […]
Skin-to-skin contact is a great way to welcome your baby into the world; your baby’s bare skin is against your bare skin. When researchers measured the stress level of newborn babies, they found the lowest level of stress in babies that spent the most time skin-to-skin with Mom (or Dad!). Research shows the best way […]
It seems like everyone is talking about bacteria these days – the good kind, that is. Scientists are working feverishly to more fully understand the human “microbiome”, the more than 100 trillion bacteria that inhabit the human body, living on our skin, in our mouth, in our intestines, and for women, in their vaginas. While […]
Breast milk is the perfect food to nourish your baby, and there is a long list of the ways breastfeeding benefits your baby’s health. It provides the perfect nutrition for a growing human body and brain. Natural components in breast milk cannot be replicated in a lab and with no cost or preparation it is […]
