Sentences with phrase «if breastfeeding works»

Here's our prescription: If breastfeeding works for you, great.

It's great if breastfeeding works for you and your baby, but the truth is that for a variety of reasons, not every mom breastfeeds her child.

If breastfeeding works, it is very convenient and economical compared to formula.

But really no one here wants you to formula feed your child if breastfeeding works for you.

Not exact matches

The reality is that if women truly want to breastfeed they will find a way to make it work.

After a few months of this, the lack of sleep, the crying, the «helpful» people who tell you to just work a little harder, it would be a miracle if any woman in this position kept breastfeeding.

Often women with low supply are let down by the breastfeeding community because they rely on the idea that if your child does not have enough milk it is because you are not working hard enough.

What if you're a working mother and your baby will not sleep unless she is breastfed... and even then, will not fall into a deep enough sleep to get her to her crib before she wakes?

In addition, if you are a healthcare provider working with a woman with diabetes, PCOS, hypoplasia or other conditions that impact her fertility, it is important to talk to her about the potential impact on her ability to breastfeed.

If you are a breastfeeding mom who has to pump regularly, whether you are pumping at work, exclusively pumping (by choice or necessity), trying to increase your supply, breastfeeding multiples or donating to a human milk bank, you probably don't want to spend all of your pumping time holding the horns.

WIC did offer breastfeeding support - peer counselor, access to a pump if I was working, extra supplemental fruits and veggies, etc - but we also get 95 jars of baby food per month.

I had lots of help: dh was not working at the time and was committed to helping me 24/7 and was 100 % supportive; mil is a IBCLC and would drop everything and come to our home if we called her; my midwife was passionate about breastfeeding, visited me ever other day, sometimes every day; I saw Dr. Jack Newman regularly until my son was 8 weeks old.

As committed to breastfeeding as I am and have always been (I have been putting off a breast reduction even though the size of my breasts might be contributing to early osteoparthritis because I think some of my chronic health issues are related to poor early nutrition - not just formula - feeding but plenty of other over-processed junk), I don't know that I'd have been willing or able to go through all that if my plumbing wasn't working.

Let me say upfront that I am a huge proponent of breastfeeding (if that's what a woman wants and if it works for her, her baby and her family) and I think it should be supported at all times at all facets of society.

But what she took from her experience, and what she expressed, was that http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/03/08/when-to-give-up-on-breastfeeding/"rel = «nofollow» > all women should give up breastfeeding after 2 weeks if it is not working out.

Take care, Annie I should note as well, because I couldn't find a way to work it into the letter, that if I know a friend is planning to breastfeed, I often try to arm them with good information (e.g. good books, good websites, how to find a lactation consultant) ahead of time and let them know that I am there if they have any questions at all.

Yes, having the Canadian mat leave helped with breastfeeding immensely (chances are slim I would have stuck it out with my first if I'd had to go back to work at 6 weeks, we were still learning at that point; and going back after 12 months meant I could skip pumping), and I definitely think more options should be available to American working moms.

At 8 weeks I was just getting over the cracked - nipple - of - doom, if I had had to go to work there would have been no way I could have kept up with breastfeeding.

I'm sure if we weren't so pressured to return to work immediately (let's not even get into the Hollywood effect - slim down before your post partum visit), the benefits of breastfeeding, economic, medically and socially (yes, i believe there are social benefits) would be farther reaching.

If you attend meetings you'll find there are many of the components of a tribe: the ritual of greeting people and doing introductions, the work of helping each other with mothering and breastfeeding and sharing refreshments at the end of the meeting, the commitment of time together each month.

Even if you've breastfed before, every baby is difference so what worked with one might not work with the next.

BUT if Babywise does not «mesh with God's design for how breastfeeding works», then how do people ever have success?

If you're someone who would love a role in a small, friendly company helping out breastfeeding mums, recommending products, providing solutions and helping them work out how to use one of these «breast pump things», then please apply.

Bottle feeding may be necessary, as for example with formula fed babies or if you need to leave the house and go to work while still breastfeeding.

If you want to breastfeed and go back to work, go out on a child - free date with your husband, or just have someone else take one -LSB-...]

Try on your other breast when baby is feeding and make sure to warn the people across the room:) Sally Tedstone, Breastfeeding Expert Midwife and Breastfeeding Educator with UNICEF UK Baby Friendly Initiative, writes: «If it does not work at first, do not panic or think that there is no milk, simply try another spot, a slightly different hand formation or rhythm until it works for you.

So if you want to keep breastfeeding after you return to work let's figure out how to integrate pumping into your work day.

I started to wonder, what was the point of having a specialized breastfeeding pillow if I had to use a bunch of other items to make it work correctly?

If you have to work on the computer or do household chores and want to have those breastfeed bottles always filled, the pump strap hand - free can help you to accomplish more in a day.

Working with a La Leche League Leader or lactation consultant can help you get your baby breastfeeding effectively even if bottles have been given.

If you need to get back to work and breastfeeding isn't going to be practical, you're not alone in this common weaning scenario.

If you choose to continue breastfeeding, some moms recommend talking to a lactation consultant before you head back to work.

If anything, it takes MORE perseverance and dedication to breastfeed and pump when working against the way breastfeeding is designed to work.

If you are a mama with breastfeeding, babywearing, and cloth diapering experience that enjoys sharing ideas and is looking for very part - time, flexible, work from home income... well then THIS is the dream job for you!

Understandably, if you have never been a breastfeeding or pumping mom, you have no idea that there are things you can do ahead of time to set make returning to work easier.

To be part of the breastfeeding infantry, it doesn't matter if you're planning to work full - time or be a stay - at - home - mom, if you're gay or straight, if you're a card - carrying left - wing feminist or a Mormon with a penchant for traditional values.

But if you are sitting there and the breastfeeding simply isn't working, get off your couch and call a lactation consultant immediately.

And sometimes at the very beginning, using that pump can make breastfeeding problems work if there are any problems or creates problems that weren't you know already there.

Hopefully these nursing cover reviews help you decide on the best breastfeeding cover for you — one that works for both your needs and (if you're nursing) your baby's personality!

It's widely recommended by many health professionals that children should start moving away from bottles and breastfeeding by one year of age, so try to work through the rest of the weaning process by this point if possible, too.

And if breastfeeding didn't work out, for whatever reason, you may have experienced this as another significant loss — or even «failure.»

;) But it is about finding ways to fulfil the mother's dream of motherhood, and if breastfeeding is a vital part of that, then she deserves to have someone that helps her find a way to make it work.

But if you are sitting there and breastfeeding simply isn't working, get off your couch and call a lactation consultant immediately.

And if anyone deserves to be celebrated for all their hard work, I think it is moms that breastfeed via pumping.

If they are not breastfeeding well, they also do not need extra water, but rather, the mother should be helped so that breastfeeding works better.

I breastfed although I was of the opinion that I would give it a go and if it didn't work out that was fine.

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Or * gasp * it would be perfectly ok to just nurse while at home and feed formula while at work if you liked breastfeeding and couldn't pump.

If a woman knows she won't be able to breastfeed once she goes back to work, for example, she might decide to skip breastfeeding all together.

Also check out our article on what to do if you are breastfeeding and have to return to work.