Tag: Breastfeeding
How to use cabbage leaves to relieve the breasts during breastfeeding?
Are you breastfeeding and your breasts are swollen and painful? To relieve the breast engorgement you have, cabbage leaves are very helpful. Explanations with Claude Didierjean-Jouveau, expert of La Leche…
Mixed breastfeeding: how many feedings and bottles per day?
Mixed breastfeeding is a solution for women who do not wish to exclusively breastfeed their baby. Quantity, advantages, disadvantages, choice of infant milk… Isabelle Cloutier, IBCLC lactation consultant, advises us.…
New advice on alcohol and breastfeeding sparks debate
The issue of alcohol and breastfeeding has caused a heated debate recently. The reason is that the new Nordic nutritional recommendations may contain guidelines that breastfeeding women should completely abstain…
Is that pregnant women can fast? How should pregnant women eat during Ramadan, what should breastfeeding mothers pay attention to?
Pregnant women who fast during the month of Ramadan should be especially careful for the healthy development of the baby. Nutritional needs vary according to normal feeding periods, and balanced…
Can you have myopia surgery during pregnancy and breastfeeding?
Pregnancy is not without consequence on myopia which it tends to aggravate. However, it is not advisable to have surgery during these 9 months. For what reasons ? the answers…
Breastfeeding and libido: why do we have less desire to make love?
The arrival of a child can turn a couple’s life upside down, especially in terms of sexuality. A reality that is even truer among young breastfeeding mothers since other factors…
Long breastfeeding: until what age, what benefits?
Biological norm for the human baby and yet often misunderstood, long breastfeeding has many advantages, both for the mother and for the child. But, from when can we speak of…
Breastfeeding and diversification: how to do it, at what age?
If the WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months, it is possible to start diversification from 5 months if the baby is curious and awake. But, when and how…
Breastfeeding strike: why does baby suddenly refuse the breast?
Was your baby breastfeeding going well until he started refusing the breast? He’s probably having a nursing strike. What are the causes of this phenomenon? How to reverse the trend?…
10 tips for getting breastfeeding off to a good start
How to do it ? How to manage the milk flow? How do I know if my baby has had enough to drink? Our advice to start breastfeeding as calmly…