When Covid hit the fan, many moms were sent home from the hospital with NO real plan for breastfeeding help if things weren't going well....

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 h...

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 did...

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...

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...

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, ...

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

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 w...

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 appro...

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 ...

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

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 w...

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

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...

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

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!...

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 m...

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 chi...

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 dow...