What Drugs Affect Breast Milk?
Many different drugs affect breast milk. Both illegal drugs and legal substances potentially enter the breast milk through passive diffusion. Whether or not something enters the breast milk depends on many factors, including molecular weights and lipid solubility....
Medications and Breastfeeding: What is Safe?
As a breastfeeding mother, there are so many things that you will worry about. Medications and breastfeeding is one of those things. Several years ago, a woman named Allison called me to ask for a lactation consult. She was struggling to breastfeed her one week old...
The Truth About Nipple Blebs
What really is the truth about nipple blebs? As I was researching this article, I found all of the out dated recommendations on how to deal with this pesky problem. Travel with me back in time a little. Have you ever had a giant pimple on your face? All you want to do...
Five Factors That Decrease Breast Milk Supply
A decrease in breast milk supply definitely presents a stressful situation to mothers who are breastfeeding their babies. Breast milk production is controlled entirely by your hormones for the first 10 days postpartum. Next, it switches to local control at the level...
First 24 Hours of Breastfeeding
As a breastfeeding expert, I can tell you that the first 24 hours of breastfeeding are extremely important in your journey towards exclusive breastfeeding. In my former life as a newborn hospital pediatrician, I had the privilege to care for newborns during the first...
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