Hey y’all, Boy, do I have a story for you. Well, you know how breast milk is nature’s perfect food for babies? It turns out, my infant son can’t tolerate breast milk. He’s like me in the fact that it didn’t affect him enough for the test for galactosemia (intolerance to breast milk) to comeContinue reading “My son can’t have breast milk”
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Increasing Milk Supply
Hey y’all, As some of you know, I had a baby not too long ago. I had planned to breastfeed, but he has a tongue tie and struggles to get any milk out. We’re supplementing with soy milk while I try to up my milk supply. For weeks, I tried all the foods and supplementsContinue reading “Increasing Milk Supply”
Hippie Baby
Good morning, Alright, I’ve gone full hippie granola with this baby. If you don’t know, I recently had a baby. For a while, I was going crazy lack of sleep and the pain of of trying to breastfeed a baby with a tongue tie. On top of all that, I am also minimalist by nature,Continue reading “Hippie Baby”
Pumping 8+ Times a Day
Good morning everyone, I’m sitting here with the new baby. As some of you know, my son has a tongue tie, so he can’t breastfeed like I had planned. I don’t want to get stuck buying tons of formula, and breastmilk is super nutritious anyway, so I am now exclusively pumping. I am supplementing withContinue reading “Pumping 8+ Times a Day”
Clogged Milk Ducts
Hey everyone, Oh, if I had only known how to treat my breasts before breastfeeding, I could have avoided so many problems. Let me begin by saying that I did have a fair amount of knowledge before jumping into breastfeeding, but my son has a tongue-tie, which I wasn’t prepared for. His tongue is tooContinue reading “Clogged Milk Ducts”
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