New research suggests that babies who are fed on demand have higher IQs and perform better on standardized tests than their peers who were fed on a schedule. The feeding patterns of over 10,000 babies were studied by researchers from Essex and Oxford Universities. They looked at breastfed babies and bottle fed babies and found […]
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The Third Stage of Labor: The Way Mother Nature Intended
You are in the final moments; you’ve worked so hard, come so far.Your body urges you to push. You bear down, giving it your all; and, alas, you have delivered your precious baby.You soar with excitement and, in an instant, a profound relationship is born. What happens next is the third stage of labor, the […]
Probiotics: An alternative treatment for mastitis?
Through the years, mastitis, an infection of breast tissue that mostly occurs in breastfeeding mothers, has typically been treated by a course of antibiotics. However, more recently, probiotics have been shown to be a better alternative. Doctors from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, studied a group of 352 with symptoms of mastitis. One group of […]
Posh Pads
I love my Posh Pads! Robyn from Posh Pads kindly gifted me with a beautiful set of their organic cloth breast pads to try, and they were amazingly comfortable. I hate the paper, disposable breast pads – I use cloth diapers for my baby, so why not cloth pads for my breasts? They don’t even […]
Placenta capsules help with D-MER?
I had a woman contact me with her story about D-MER, or Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex. According to the D-MER website: Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex is a newly recognized condition affecting lactating women that is characterized by an abrupt dysphoria, or negative emotions that occur just before milk release and continuing not more then a […]
My saggy breasts are not from nursing
I am a bit relieved to find that nursing for over four years combined total (and still going strong…) is not the culprit for my saggy breasts. It turns out that it was having the kids in the first place! I also discovered that my personally coined term, Saggy Breast Syndrome (or just Saggies, for […]
