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Traveling and Pumping Breast Milk
by Mommy Care Team July 26, 2021
Summer is heating up. Families are making plans for vacations. Employers are bringing people back to the office and work travel is resuming. For breastfeeding moms, that means more planning, more logistics, and more to pack.
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The Cost of Breastfeeding
by Mommy Care Team July 19, 2021
As a naturally produced substance from a mother’s body, many people mistakenly assume that breast milk is free. Breast milk is commonly referred to as liquid gold. And while we’d like to think of all moms as magical milk making creatures, we can’t make milk from straw like Rumpelstiltskin. As part of our effort to normalize breastfeeding, we need to shed light on its hidden costs.
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Can You Grieve Breastfeeding If You Are a Pumping Mom?
by Mommy Care Team July 12, 2021
In reality, not every woman finds biological nursing easy, let alone possible. For some women, our own biology makes nursing difficult. Take inverted and elastic nipples for examples. Other women might find it uncomfortable.
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What Are Lip Ties and How Do They Impact Breastfeeding
by Mommy Care Team June 14, 2021
A lip tie is when this frenulum, or connective tissue between the lip and gum connects to the gums instead of higher up in the mouth. It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but it can limit the mobility of the upper lip.
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Is Your Baby Tongue Tied?
by Mommy Care Team June 08, 2021
When babies have an overly tight lingual frenulum it can inhibit their ability to extend their tongue. This means that babies with tongue ties might have trouble both latching, and then maintaining that latch.
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Involving Your Older Children in Your Breastfeeding Journey
by Mommy Care Team May 31, 2021
No matter our children’s assigned genders, the things we normalize in our homes, will be the way they see the world when they’re older. In this way, we can normalize breastfeeding once and for all.
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Eating for Two: How to Eat In Order to Maintain a Consistent Breast Milk Supply
by Mommy Care Team May 24, 2021
Focusing on healthy nutrition is so important for consistent milk supply. As a nursing mama our bodies need enough energy to keep our bodies fueled and to create milk for our babies to keep them healthy and growing! So, how do we do this?
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Reasons Moms Love Manual Breast Pumps
by Mommy Care Team May 10, 2021
It’s no secret that we love electric breast pumps. They can save a lot of time and manual labor when it comes to pumping. But that doesn’t mean that we solely recommend them. There are reasons that moms love manual breast pumps as well.
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How to Tell if You Have Elastic Nipples and What You Can Do About Them
by Mommy Care Team April 26, 2021
When too much of your breast tissue is drawn into a flange, it can become painful, inhibit your letdown, and therefore make pumping an unpleasant and unproductive experience. Elastic nipples will be drawn all the way down through the tunnel of the flange and actually press up against the valve.
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Breast Milk Storage Guidelines and Tips
by Mommy Care Team April 06, 2021
You’ve made the milk. You’ve pumped the milk. Now how do you store it? Your breast milk is liquid gold, and should be treated as such. You don’t want to just pop it into any bottle and leave it in the fridge for days on end.
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Breast Pain: Could It Be a Clogged Duct?
by Mommy Care Team February 11, 2021
Breast pain is no joke. When you have breast pain and are trying to pump or breastfeed, it can be almost prohibitive. It can also be confusing. You are in touch with your body in a way that you’ve never experienced before. Discovering these new things about your body, your breasts, and connecting with your baby, there will be things that you do not know.
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Mom, You Might Need Two Different Breast Pump Flanges
by Mommy Care Team September 29, 2020
This is a bit tricky. When we think about the size of our breasts, we generally think in terms of clothing and underwear. You are X size so you need Y bra size. Simple right? Since the flanges fit up against your breast tissue, the same concept should apply to your breast pump, right?
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