All About Breastfeeding

AAB 142 FAQ 16 IGT Insufficient Glandular Tissue

Stacy tells me that she has a lot of friends who are breastfeeding and decided she really want to have this experience with her baby.   Stacy tells me that she exclusively breastfed her new baby, Alex and 8 lb 1 oz boy during her 2 days hospital stay.  She was told the latch was good, although Stacy complained that it was pinching her a lot.  Everyone agreed that baby seemed happy at breast and content after most feedings.  A few hours before discharge, she was given news that upset her grea...

AAB 141 Laura McClellan Successfully breastfed 5 children

Laura is the oldest of 6 kids. The first 4 kids were very close in age. Her dad was a  truck driver. Her Mom took care of the kids and worked part time.   Laura tells us that they did not have a lot of money, but as kids, she really did not know that.

AAB 140 Breastfeeding FAQ Case History - Breastfeeding and Increasing your milk production

Why would a mother need to increase her milk supply? Don't all mothers make enough milk for their babies? Can it be that some mothers do make enough, but think they don't?   Can it be that some mothers do make enough, but they want to make lots more? Can it be that some mothers don't make enough milk for their babies?

AAB 139 Karey Northington - Great tips for helping the postpartum mother

Karey Northington is the owner of Northington Fitness and Nutrition. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in both Nursing and Psychology and is a certified personal trainer and nutritionist though the ISSA. She is passionate about helping others achieve their goals without restriction. Karey is also an IFBB professional athlete who competes in the bikini division and a published fitness model. Most importantly, she is a wife and mother of a sweet 6 year old boy, Nolan.

AAB 138 Breastfeeding FAQ 14 Breastfeeding and Increasing Your Milk Production - Do you need to?

Can it be that some mothers do make enough, but think they don't?   Can it be that some mothers do make enough, but they want to make lots more? Can it be that some mothers don't make enough milk for their babies?

AAB 137 Betsy Furler - Preterm baby and breastfeeding challenges

Betsy is a Native Texan and was born in Dallas, Texas. Her dad is an  episcopal minister and her mom is a Christian education director. She has 1 sister who is 22  months older. Betsy describes her family as a very loving and very supportive family for which she is grateful for. She had a great childhood and was always told that she could do anything in the world that she wanted to.  Betsy said that she always knew she loved babies almost from birth. She played with a lot of babies and babys...

AAB 136 FAQ 13 Breastfeeding and Medication

Very simply put, the way medications are passed on to the baby during pregnancy and during lactation differ.  The gestational age and doseage during pregnancy is taken into consideration.  The infants age and doseage is considered during lactation.  At one point, your baby may be old enough to handle a certain medication taken at a certain doseage and for a period of time.  However, the same medication, duration and dose would not be safe as it crosses the placenta and affects the baby more ...

AAB 135 Amy Neuhedel supports families worldwide as a birthing year coach, Hypnobirthing instructor and doula.

 Amy is from Massapequa, Long Island, which is in New York.  Which was a huge and wonderful surprise to Lori as she also grew up in Massapequa.  We grew up about 10 minutes from each other!  We had fun going down memory lane for a few minutes before carrying on with the rest of the show.   We talked about what the culture was like in the 1950s and 1960s for our mothers and the reasons they did not breastfeed, which were for similar reasons. Amy left Massapequa to go to college, then lived in...

AAB 134 The 2 week mark - How do you know that Breastfeeding is going really well?

 Your baby should have been gradually gaining back any weight loss from the first 4 days, until they were back to birthweight at 2 weeks old. Breastfeeding should not be painful for you. Your baby comes to the breast and feedings are comfortable for you.  You should not be experiencing any breast pain or nipple pain. When your baby is breastfeeding he should be relaxing at breast, focused on feeding, staying put and not coming on and off, multiple times during the feeding. Your baby ...

AAB 133 Helen Ball talks co-sleeping and bed sharing

Helen has 2 daughters,  ages 24 and 20 years old.  She did breastfeed both of her babies and tells us that it was a very important experience for her and it really formed a lot of her thinking about the research that she did in the early days. 

AAB 132 FAQ 11 What if my baby won't breastfeed?

There are actually quite a few reasons why you can struggle with early breastfeeding.  Here are some possible scenarios that you might find yourself dealing with a baby who is not breastfeeding well:    Probably the most common reason for a hard start is a premature birth.  When babies are born early it can make it more difficult for them to breastfeed. The reasons can be numerous so it is not helpful at this point to conjecture.  What we really want to do is say.. okay, this is the sit...

AAB 131 All About Mothering Membership Site News

AAB 130 FAQ 10 Engorgement - Definition. Why it happens. Prevention. Treatment

Engorgement is the swelling or congestion of body tissues. When we are referring to breast engorgement, we are describing the painful swelling that occurs when the breasts become  very full and very firm.  Sometimes the breasts are actually hard and all these sensations lead to very painful breasts.  They can feel very heavy, sometimes throbbing, you noticed your skin is quite stretched and sometimes this fullness and firmness leads to your armpits.  Engorgement can affect one or both brea...

AAB 129 Co-sleeping and Room Sharing

Bed sharing is having the babies sleep in the same bed as the adults.  This is what I did.when my kids were young. I didn't know it at the time because it just seemed right and it helped me get some much needed rest, however,   Bed sharing was very common up to the 19th century.  People use to sleep in very close quarters to each other, places were small, sleeping with each other kept people warm at night.  What changed?    Houses got bigger, babies were given their own room, the baby crib i...

AAB 128 FAQ #9 Milk is in Now Day 4 - 14

Your baby is now 4-5 days old.  You are just beginning to get the hang of breastfeeding. Sure you might feel awkward with it all, however, you are now getting use to a baby feeding at your breast 8 times a day. You are continuing to experiment with different positions to find which ones seem to work best for you and your baby.  In some places you will find you need to use a pillow and a stool. Other places where you breastfeed, your set up will be different   Read More

AAB 127 Our historical of wet nursing part 7

The matter of need is somewhat open for interpretation, as are many things.  When I think of need as a modern woman, I think of - If for whatever reason, a mother cannot breastfeed her baby.  Whether it is because she has died she is too sick to breastfeed, she has been separated from her baby or she has no milk to provide for her baby. Need to woman centuries ago could have been defined as - She needs to get back to conceiving babies and the act of breastfeeding acts as one form of contrace...

AAB 126 Breastfeeding Introducing Co-Sleeping

Bed-sharing is just one of the ways that a family might co-sleep, but it is frequently practiced by breastfeeding mothers. One of the biggest issues when it comes to bed-sharing is safety.   Some sources publicize bed-sharing as an unsafe practice, no matter how it’s done, but there are ways to sleep safely while bed-sharing if you follow guidelines for safe sleep surfaces and safe sleep sharing Read More

AAB 125 Breastfeeding - Day 1-4 What to expect the first week

The first 24 hours:   If all went well with your birth and you and your baby do not need any special care, it is best if you do what you can to spend the first 24 hours just being with your baby.  We like to call it your "babymoon" time.  Your physical body and emotional mind has been through a lot of changes from pregnancy to birth to postpartum.  You have gone through a lot in the last 9 months.  Here is what you can expect the first 24 hours:   Read More 

AAB 124 Breastfeeding Lori talks about two moms and their breastfeeding babies and the stress of the holidays

The holidays are very stressful times with a newborn.

AAB 123 Guest interview with Becky Ramsdell

Becky Ramsdell is a Peoria, Arizona woman who is now a mom of two after going through 10 years of infertility and failed adoptions in the  process of building their family.  She had struggles with breastfeeding both of her babies but was ultimately able to work through those struggles and nurse each of them for their first year.  She went back to work when each of them was 3 months  old, so there was a lot of pumping and milk freezing involved.  Now she loves to share her story of hope and e...

AAB 122 FAQ #7 - How do I tell if I need to be concerned about the latch?

In todays show, we are going to answer the question:  How do you tell If you need to be concerned about the latch. It is unrealistic to think that I can help you assess and fix the latch in this show, however, I find that education and prevention can go a long way.  I meet with so many moms who did not know the signs of a poor latch.  They just did not know anything was wrong until they started to have severe pain or until they went to a pediatric visit and found out there baby has lost ...

AAB 121 Breastfeeding tips and tricks for the holidays

Having worked with moms during 20 something holiday seasons, I have a pretty good idea about how stressful this time of year can be for you. On the one hand, when you realized you were going to give birth around holiday time, you had daydreams of how wonderful it would be to spend your baby’s first holiday season with friends and family. This evokes all warm and fuzzy feelings and excitement. This is absolutely true, it can be warm and fuzzy and so exciting. It also has a strong tendency to ...

AAB 120 Breastfeeding Lori talks about her Daily Mantra

Lori talks about the fact that breastfeeding should not be painful. She talks about this a lot in her daily work. It is her working mantra:   If breastfeeding is hurting on Day 1, something is not right. If breastfeeding is hurting on Day 2, something is not right. And if breastfeeding is hurting on Day 3, something is definitely not right and I urge you to seek professional help right away.  This is her daily mantra to mothers, she says it many times a week.  Lori has  it on her website.  W...

AAB 119 6th in a series of 12 shows in which I answer your most FAQs

AAB 119 Breastfeeding Part 6 wet nurses

AAB 117 Julie Bouchet-Horwitz, FNP, IBCLC Executive Director The New York Milk Bank, Inc

All infants in need deserve to have human milk.  Our most smallest and sickest of babies need to have donor milk to help them get the best start in life.  Donor milk will help dramatically reduce the risk of succumbing to necrotizing enterocolitis  (NEC), which is a really bad infection that causes their gut to slough off and die.  Premies are more susceptible to this then full term babies. The reason donor milk is often needed for these babies is because their moms have not gone through the...

AAB 116 Breastfeeding There is Liquid Gold in Them Breasts

Come along with me for this ride on the colostrum train and you are going to see exactly why we get so excited about this life giving substance that is all part of human milk that newborns receive. By the time we are done here today, you are going to be as equally excited about colostrum and its benefits to newborns.  You will understand why physicians are doing whatever they possible can to ensure that all newborns received colostrum, and in particular our most vulnerable sick and/or premat...

AAB 115 Breastfeeding Lori continues her tour of breastfeeding practices around the world

A few things have happened since I began doing some research for this seasons Tour of the world of breastfeeding.  I wanted to be able to take my listeners on a tour, if you will of breastfeeding around the globe from ancient to current times.  I knew that  I would be covering times when babies were wet nursed and cross nursed.  I knew that  I would be covering times when babies were removed from their biological mothers arms and given to other woman to nourish them.  I knew that there were ...

AAB 114 Breastfeeding Part 1 interview with Julie Bouchet-Horwitz, FNP, IBCLC

Julie Bouchet-Horwitz is a nurse practitioner and international board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She is the founder and Executive Director of The New York Milk Bank and has a private practice specializing in breastfeeding in Irvington, NY.  She formed a team of 5 women who over 3 years developed the New York Milk Bank which officially opened its doors two weeks ago in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York . The New York Milk Bank will provide safely pasteurized donor human milk to premat...

AAB 113 Breastfeeding Part 5 of Lori answers your questions

Most mothers whose hormones are in the proper balance and who have normal breast development during puberty and pregnancy, will make plenty of milk for their baby.  Despite all their best efforts, there will be some mothers who will struggle with supply. I find that most mothers I work with, who struggle with supply, well they actually have one or more potential risk factors for low supply, however, they were just not made aware of it.  There are some very real factors that can put you at ri...

AAB 112 Breastfeeding - Part 4 Lactation failure in history

In last week's show, we took our breastfeeding tour through England and Germany and discovered similarities and differences in the culture regarding wet nursing. We have  learned that wet nursing, which is a woman who breastfeeds another's child, was a common practice all over the world, before the introduction of the bottle and formula.  From 2000 BC all the way to the 20th century, wet nursing evolved from an alternative of need to an alternative of choice.  We have learned that wet nursin...

AAB 111 Breastfeeding Lisa Chin Online Summit

Her passions are business, health and motherhood. Being a mom has opened her heart and soul in countless ways. She started her breastfeeding experience two years ago and continues to nurse her toddler today with no intentions of stopping anytime soon. Read more

AAB Bonus Breastfeeding preparing for C section

This week a member of ours expressed some fears associated with her upcoming scheduled c/sec.  There are times when members rally around moms and take the time out of your busy mothering lives to respond to these posts and for this I am so grateful and appreciative. You share words of support, encouragement, offer assistance and information.  Sharing is caring and I love how much you are caring for each other. 

AAB 110 Breastfeeding FAQ Part 3 How do the Breasts Make Milk?

Pregnancy is considered to be the period of the most extensive and rapid growth of the mammary gland.  Changes occur the fastest during the later states of pregnancy, which coincides with the most rapid period of fetal growth.  Read more

AAB 109 Breastfeeding Part 3 on tour of breastfeeding in the world

Next country on our breastfeeding tour is England.  Records show that the pattern of wealthy married women hiring wet nurses in France, was quite the same in England also.  Historians came to this conclusion based on the stark difference in birth rates between English upper and working class women.  The wealthy women gave birth every year and the working class women had longer intervals with births about every 3 years.  While not 100% accurate, women who were wet nurses experienced a suppres...

AAB 108 Breastfeeding Jennifer Grayson Author of Unlatched

Her writing and commentary have appeared in publications including The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, American Baby and The Huffington Post, where she wrote two long-running columns for the Green section. A leading expert on environmental issues, she has been featured by MSNBC, WGN and NPR, as well as numerous online outlets and blogs. Read More 

AAB 107 Breastfeeding FAQ day #2 - Why did I want to become an IBCLC and How did I go about it?

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AAB 106 Breastfeeding Tour continues Breastfeeding in 1700 and 1800

AAB 105 Breastfeeding Tongue tie & Breastfeeding & Fertility

Lisa is also the founder of FertilityFriday.com and the Fertility Friday Podcast - a weekly radio show that she created to connect women with a deeper understanding of how fertility and overall health are connected and intertwined with menstrual cycle health. Each week she conducts in depth interviews with professionals who specialize in helping women to restore their fertility naturally.   Read More

AAB 104 Breastfeeding - What is an IBCLC

An International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) is a health care professional who specializes in the clinical management of breastfeeding.    read more

AAB 103 Breastfeeding history: Infant Feeding and Wet Nursing

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AAB 102 Breastfeeding Penny Simkin PT Author and Educator

My guest today does not know this, however, I met her many years ago, in a friends home on Long Island, NY.  The Birth Partner was a fairly new book and my childbirth educator friends and I were just learning about what it means to be a labor support person and were learning about this new profession called a Birth Doula.  We were a small group of less than 10 moms and we were suppose to meet for about 2 hours and we wound up talking until the wee hours of the morning.  She really left us wi...

AAB 101 Normal Newborn Breastfeeding Behavior

I am repeating Episode #43 as we lead into Season 2 that starts next week on Monday, October 10th, 2016   There is so much misinformation given about the early days of breastfeeding that I was motivated to do a show that I titled:  Normal newborn breastfeeding behavior.  Moms are being given very specific advice about the early days of breastfeeding.    Read More

AAB 100 Breastfeeding Lori's 100 episode

In today's show, I am going to reminisce a bit and talk about my experiences as the host of this podcast and relive some memories that Ihave shared with guests.  I am also going to fill you in on what you can expect from Season 2 of All About Breastfeeding.  At the end of the show, I am going to explain to you how you can win some really cool prizes. read more

AAB 099 Breastfeeding Part 2 Morgann Burres

Morgann is a wife, a mother of an almost 2-year-old girl and a 1-month-old girl, and a birth doula in the Phoenix area.  Morgann enjoys walks in the evening before putting her girls to bed, spending quality time with good friends, and talking about all things related to pregnancy, birth and postpartum.    read more

AAB 098 Breastfeeding Morgann Burres Doula

  Morgann is a wife, a mother of an almost 2-year-old girl and a 1-month-old girl, and a birth doula in the Phoenix area.  Morgann enjoys walks in the evening before putting her girls to bed, spending quality time with good friends, and talking about all things related to pregnancy, birth and postpartum.  Read more

AAB 097 Breastfeeding International Board Certified Lactation Consultants

Because this is so long, myself and others have picked up a habit of calling ourselves LCs or lactation consultants. This was fine for a while, however in recent years there have been many weekend or week long courses that have cropped up and when a person graduates from that course, they can call themselves a LC  ( lactation consultant) or  or an LS ( lactation specialist)or BC (breastfeeding counselor)  or CBC  ( certified breastfeeding counselor) or CLC ( certified lactation consultant...

AAB 096 Breastfeeding Sarah Argenal is the Founder of the Working Parent Resource, which is an online resource dedicated to helping frazzled working moms and dads slow down and finally focus on what matters most in their lives.

Sarah was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.   When she was 5 years old,  her parents were divorced and she moved to California to a very small hippie town. Her mom and stepdad were hippies. She had an older sister and a younger brother and she was the middle child. She also had  a couple of step sisters and half brothers.  Sarah looks back fondly and says that she had a nice childhood.   She was homeschooled for 5 years.  Her family traveled from San Francisco, up and down the coastline in a sailboa...

AAB 095 Breastfeeding WIC and the NWA changes to Support breastfeeding

There was a big announcement made in the last few days. This affects many mothers and children.  I believe the decision I am going to talk about is in the best interest of mothers and children and yet there is controversy surrounding it.  I find that what is usually lying beneath controversy is FEAR.   So, let's get into it.  What was this announcement anyway   Have you heard of the WIC program.  It stands for Womans, Infants and Children. healthcare referrals for income-eligib...

AAB 094 Breastfeeding Part 2 interview with Ben Ta'ati Homeopathic Medicine

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