How does breastfeeding work? How do you breastfeed? When do you breastfeed? Until what age? How do I know if she is getting enough milk? The questions about breastfeeding are endless. Trying to summarize all the advice and answers to your doubts in one…
Category: Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding and constipation of the newborn and mother
When can we say that a newborn is constipated and therefore needs external help to go to the bowel? Constipation can arise more easily when using formula and at the beginning of weaning. Feeding your baby, whether it’s breast or bottle…
13 myths to bust about breastfeeding
This article exposes the most common fears and rumors related to breastfeeding. Questions that mothers and expectant mothers ask me every day and I answer by demonstrating whether they are rumors and false myths or not. Breastfeeding is one of the…
Breastfeeding and back to work: how to organize yourself?
Once you go back to work, i.e. after maternity leave, should you stop breastfeeding? This is not necessarily the case because reconciling work and breastfeeding is by no means impossible. With this article, I want to give advice to all those mothers…
The problems and difficulties of breastfeeding
Here’s how a mother can independently recognize them and intervene on milk flow, strong ejection reflex, sore nipples, blocked duct, breast engorgement, mastitis or fissures. Breastfeeding should be easy and hassle-free for most mothers, but difficulties can arise in some…
Artificial milk bonus: the (right) perplexities of neonatologists and associations
The rule, envisaged by the 2020 Budget Law, which provides for the introduction of the artificial milk bonus, or a support of up to 400 euros, for the purchase of formula milk, is causing a lot of discussion. Scientific associations…
How to understand if the baby is eating enough milk?
How does a breastfeeding mother know if her baby is getting enough milk? Breastfeeding mothers always have this doubt because the breast is not a bottle with the marked grams of milk that the baby has drunk. In reality it is a doubt…
How to make a DIY nursing pillow
The breastfeeding pillow is one of those accessories that if you’ve never tried it you think it’s just a whim but it’s not. That is, mind you, you can breastfeed even without a pillow around, God forbid, but those who have…
Smoking while breastfeeding? Better not for these reasons
We have already talked extensively about smoking during pregnancy. Many women who have successfully quit smoking during pregnancy, once the baby is born, go back to smoking as before. What happens if you smoke while breastfeeding? A new mother’s stress can reach…
Bags and containers for storing breast milk
Breast milk, once expressed with the breast pump, can be stored in the freezer in special containers, which are bags or trays designed to contain it safely. In the freezer, breast milk lasts a maximum of 6 months (at a…