Postpartum Body: What to Expect

Postpartum Body: What to Expect

The last few weeks of pregnancy can be downright miserable, making you both excited to meet your new little one and for your body to return to normal. Once your new little one arrives, however, don’t expect to feel exactly as you did before getting pregnant....
Safe Skincare During & After Pregnancy

Safe Skincare During & After Pregnancy

Your body goes through many incredible changes during pregnancy as it creates and prepares to deliver a baby. Your skin is just one of those changes. While you probably are reading labels and being careful not to eat or drink anything harmful, what you put on your...
How Does Stress Impact Breastfeeding?

How Does Stress Impact Breastfeeding?

Recovering from having a baby and taking care of a newborn (along with your other children), coupled with sleepless nights, can cause even the most prepared mom to feel overwhelmed. Adding the stress of work, illness or financial problems can take its toll on your...
Breastfeeding When You’re Sick

Breastfeeding When You’re Sick

From runny noses to sore throats to upset stomachs, the symptoms of an illness are something every breastfeeding mother dreads. Feeling icky on top of our regular motherly duties can be downright exhausting, and the medications we used to take without a second thought...
8 Breastfeeding Tips for Working Moms

8 Breastfeeding Tips for Working Moms

Giving birth can be a life-changing and exhilarating experience for women all over the world. It can also be quite a tiring one, to say the least. It can be especially exhausting for women who have jobs outside of the home. If you’re a career woman, the idea of...
What is Mastitis and How to Treat It

What is Mastitis and How to Treat It

As an infection of breast tissue that causes breast pain, warmth, swelling, redness and occasional fevers or chills, mastitis commonly affects breastfeeding women even though it can also occur in those who are not breastfeeding. Although it can happen much later while...