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• Caring For Your Breast Milk
  These breast milk guidelines will help you understand how durable your breast milk is and how perfect it is just for your baby.
  
  

Important Guides

• Weaning from Breast
  Weaning baby from breast can be both a physical and emotional challenge for you and your baby. Use some of these tips to help wean your baby a little easier for both of you.
  
  
• Breastfeeding Options
  Getting breast milk to your baby once meant having your baby at your side 24/7, but today moms are returning to work while still providing breast milk for baby.
  
  
• Breastfeeding Before the Baby Comes
  Breastfeeding takes preparation and taking the time preparing to breastfeed during pregnancy is the best time to make sure you are ready when baby comes
  
  
• Engorgement Symptoms and Treatments
  Are you looking for breast engorgement relief? Try some of these treatments to help relieve some of the pain.
  
  
• “Fore” and “Hind” Milk Facts and Considerations
  Foremilk is good for baby, but making sure that baby also receives the much more nutrious hindmilk will satisfy baby more.
  
  
• Which Breast Pump is Right for You
  
  
  
• Pumping Breast Milk For Your Supertwins
  
  
  
• Keep that Milk Coming – Increasing Your Milk Supply
  
  
  
• A Successful Pumping Session from Beginning to End
  
  
  
• Products that Make Pumping More Convenient
  
  
  
• How to Choose a Suitable Breast Pump
  
  
  
• Pumping on the Road
  
  
  
• Pumping For the Premature or Sick Baby
  
  
  
• Returning to Work, the Benefits of Pumping and the Breastfeeding Plan
  
  
  
• The Guide to Handling and Storing Your Pumped Breast Milk
  
  
  
• Breast Pumping and Antidepressants
  
  
  
• Milk Bank Donors Give the Gift of 'Liquid Gold'
  
  
  
• Breast Milk On The Black Market
  
  
  
• Bobby’s Dairy: Nursing a Baby with Chylothorax
  
  
  
• Prescription Drugs: Should They Be Used To Increase Breast Milk Supply?
  
  
  
• Breast Pumping: The Alternative Feeding Option
  
  

Breast Milk

• Lactation and How It Works
  Lactation can be mystifying, but find out what is behind breast milk production that can help you increase your breast milk.
  
  
• Smart Families Value Breastmilk
  
  
• Is My Precious Breast Milk Spoiled?
  
  
• Is that baby formula good for my baby?
  
  
• Pink Breast Milk – Can there be blood in pumped breast milk?
  
  
• Stocking Up On Your Precious Breast Milk
  
  
• Warming Your Breast Milk
  
  
• Is breast milk better for my baby?
  
  
• Is My Breast Milk Getting My Baby Drunk?
  
  

Breast Pumping

• What Are Your Breast Pumping Needs - Choosing a Breast Pump That Is Right for You?
  Finding the right breast pump for your needs is based on your reason for breast pumping.
  
  
• We Want You to “Touch Yourself”
  
  
• Using a Breast Pump To Stop Engorgement
  
  
• How Do I Stop My Breast Milk?
  
  
• Can I Breast Pump Before Baby Is Born?
  
  
• Cleaning the Breast Pump – what is that beige stuff?
  
  
• Didn’t I just finish – breast pumping sessions
  
  
• Get Organized and See Just How Easy These Breast Pumping Sessions Can Be!
  
  
• How soon can I begin to exclusively breast pump?
  
  
• It’s Only 10 – 15 Minutes – Take Some Time To Relax
  
  
• What kind of schedule should I expect to have when beginning to exclusively pump?
  
  
• Ouch! Sore Nipples
  
  
• Engorged Breasts! What can I do?
  
  
• Why Is Mold In My Tubing?
  
  
• Why is the breast milk collecting in my tubing?
  
  

Increase Breast Milk

• Giving Up Breast Pumping at Night Can Be Decreasing Your Breast Milk Supply
  A hormone called Feedback Inhibitor determines that if less breast milk is being used, then less will be produced.
  


• More Milk Plus Vegetarian Capsules are Amazing, BUT . . .
  
  
• Is Herbal Tea to Increase Breast Milk Safe
  
  
• Low Milk Supply
  
  
• 10 Ways to Increase Milk Supply
  
  
• Decongestants and Medication - The Effects On Your Breast Milk
  
  
• Fenugreek – Does It Help You Pump More Breast Milk?
  
  
• Reducing Your Calories May Reduce Your Breast Milk Supply
  
  
• WATER – One of The Best Ways To increase Breast Milk Supply
  
  
• Ways To Get Water Into Your Day – EVERYDAY!
  
  

Breast Pump Extras

• Hands Free Breast Pumping Bra
  
  
• Night Time Feeding Favorites
  
  

General

• Care and Feeding of a New Mom
  Postpartum and Breastmilk Mom - What you put in your mouth makes a difference to both you and your new baby.
  
  
• New Mom’s 5 Biggest Concerns
  We have created an article that answers some of our mom’s most important questions.
  
  
• New Attitude about Family Finances, the Holidays and the Rocky Economy
  How do parents cope with financial stress, especially with the holiday season just around the corner?
  
  
• Listening to Mothers Initiative
  
  
• Breastfeeding and Nutrition
  
  
• Bonding – Can It Be Done When You Are Pumping?
  
  
• Is Your Breast Pump Covered By Insurance
  
  
• The 5 S’s – Swaddling, Side/Stomach, Shhhh, Swinging and Sucking
  
  
• To Rent a Breast Pump or Not To Rent, That Is the Question
  


• Ways to Bond with Your Baby: A Co-sleeper Crib (Part 2)
  
  
• Ways to Bond with Your Baby: Bathing with Your Little One (Part 1)
  
  
• Ways to Bond with Your Baby: Quiet Rocking Time (Part 3)
  
  
• What Is Your Baby Saying?
  
  
• Why am I getting fatter? – The effects of eating and breast pumping
  
  
• Producing Breast Milk and Returning To Work
  
  
• Donating Your Extra Breast Milk Can Help Save Lives