Do you drive a lot for your job? Does the thought of going back to work after maternity leave stress you out? Are you scratching your head about how you're...

I remember for my first shot at sex after having baby. I wore a gross, scratchy, white nursing bra (so I wouldn't leak all over). I didn't want him anywher...

baby beloved has hit that fun teenager stage....yup, 15 years old on December 1st, 2019! Jamie Gortsema and I were working at a hospital, dreaming of how we...

Back in the "day" I had a lovely boutique combined with my lactation practice and we ROCKED at fitting women for nursing bras. You can't easily buy bras on ...

One morning this week I met with a mom because her baby (around 3 months) had suddenly gone on a nursing strike over the weekend. Then, later in the afterno...

I've never written about my experiences helping breastfeeding moms in Greece in 2017 (with Syrian refugees). I looked over my notes from my travels and found...

Over my 25 years, I have seen pump models come and go, and I now stand in awe of the advances that have come for this next generation of working/pumping mama...

On a really warm morning I took the U (subway) again to visit another one of my counterparts….a postpartum nurse at a hospital with approximately 2000+ birth...

I'm writing on the long plane ride home after a lovely trip to Vienna, Austria. My husband and I attended a medical education conference there, and took a few...

Typically, a baby who WON'T latch, CAN'T latch. My job as an IBCLC (Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant) is to figure out what's getting in ...

One of my most horrific memories is when my husband (trying to help) put disposable nursing pads inside my bra; the problem came when I went to take them o...

Our grandmothers, and our great-great grandmothers for that matter, did not take a breastfeeding class. They experienced "on the job" training, guided by th...

Mike bathing Karalyn 1991

Many women ask (quite shyly so as not to come across as a lush) whether it’s OK to drink alcohol while breastfeeding.  There is rarely a black and white an...

Moms who’ve had a bad first experience with nursing deserve a lot of credit for putting their hat into the “breastfeeding” ring again. When you’ve had a ba...

I can't tell if this pump was from 1910 or 1916, but nevertheless, we need to be thankful the pump companies have innovated since then!  This "bicycle horn...

I've been laughing all week about this line a mother dropped on her baby who is still having breastfeeding issues.  She said it in the most loving way, but...

As far back as I can tell, every baby in my lineage was breastfed until me and my siblings.  My grandmother nursed all seven of her children for two years ...

I helped her mama to breastfeed almost a year ago, and I had the pleasure of getting together for breakfast to talk about what went down and how she has he...

I got married during my last semester of college (the ripe old age of 20) and soon after graduation moved to Oklahoma City with my new husband to start a li...