Tag: mamaway
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Ready All Set, When Will My Milk Come In?
Heads in the game for exclusively breastfeeding my baby but the milk isn’t coming in during that 1 hour after birth skin-to-skin contact moment? Fret not, colostrum will come in first, then your transitional milk and mature milk. Skin-to-skin contact and the baby’s suction can assist milk let-down more easily and effectively. Your milk is…
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Going out with a breastfeed bub is EASY with Mamaway!
Breastfeeding your baby is such a natural and normal thing to do. In fact, the law in Australia protects you from being discriminated against. Babies have a right to be breastfed and mothers have a right to breastfeed in any public place under Australian law. However, in reality, many mothers still do not feel comfortable…
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Breastfeeding: How Does Breast Milk Production Works?
We’ve mentioned the law of supply and demand of human milk, the more you expressed out now the more you will produce in the future. Therefore, the secret of stable milk supply depends on how often you express the milk from your ducts. Once your body senses empty milk ducts it will automatically refill to…
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Baby’s thriving. How about you?
I hope this article finds you feeling encouraged and affirmed about being a mum. I hope too that feeding – by breast or bottle, is off to a good start, that you’re getting ‘enough’ sleep (that’s a relative one!) and that you are delighting in your new bundle. The early months can be very unpredictable…
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Babywearing helps to keep me fit and strong.
After having her first baby Tara Darlington decided to train to become a Birth Educator and Doula. 14 years later she is now a mother of 6 children as well as a highly qualified Birth Educator, Doula and Yoga Teacher. “I trained as a Birth Educator & Doula after I had my first baby, realizing…
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Difficulty with Expressing Breast Milk ?
Our community of Mums recommends trying these strategies if you have difficulties expressing Breast Milk with an electric pump or by hand, Do you have any suggestions for making expressing breast milk easier? Or do you want to ask our Mum community a question? Visit us on Facebook
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The Breast Crawl – Did you have “Skin to Skin” with your newborn at hospital?
Oddly enough, it’s not a widely known that a newborn human baby is capable of finding his mother’s breast to initiate the first breast feed. This wonderful phenomenon is called, “The Breast Crawl”. In fact some mothers, who had no idea of this newborn ability, were very shocked to see it happen. They said that…