The contents and composition of breast milk dynamically change to meet your baby’s individual needs at any particular point in time. But there are basically three different types of breast milk: Colostrum, foremilk, and hindmilk. Colostrum At some point during your second trimester, you might ...
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7 Ways to Stimulate Your Let-Down Reflex While Pumping
Stimulating a let-down or milk ejection reflex in a reasonable amount of time is one of the biggest challenges facing moms who pump. It might come as a surprise to learn that effectively using a breast pump to express milk can be a learned skill. It helps to understand the physical science of ...
Breastfeeding Benefits Babies, Moms, and Society Too
A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritive fluid for infants. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes So what’s the Big Deal about Breastfeeding? There are a number of controversial topics when it comes ...
