If you are on maternity leave, enjoying your breastfeeding journey, but your return back to work is approaching at a seemingly alarming rate and you are just confused about this “pump schedule” stuff - then keep reading.

5 Reason Why Career Moms need a Breastfeeding Plan in 2025…and 1 more for all mothers!

So a safe place to sleep, LOTs of diapers, and for the love of all things good some prenatal breastfeeding education is all mamas need.

For as the saying goes, “It’s natural, why do we need help?”

However, is colostrum, the milk provided before mature milk, more gold-like than regular breastmilk? Let me start off by saying yes, but further prove why!

The holidays, however, can provide some situations that we are not accustomed to though. If you are an exclusive nursing mother, you might find that the holidays is when you are presented with the need to pump. If you are an exclusive pumper, you may find yourself packing an entire suitcase of supplies in order to conveniently pump while away from home. So I wanted to provide some tips for pumping during the holidays.

There are several times in our breastfeeding journey, which we anticipate change is on the horizon. However, sometimes there are hazards in our path, which come with no warning, no caution sign, no cones alerting us that there is a problem ahead. I feel like this is what the holidays can bring to our breastfeeding journey. This often is a roadblock, which has no detour sign, no alert.
So today, I will be your ALERT sign, let you know that there is potential for pot holes up ahead.

Ah, I can picture it now. You are having a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. Your child actually eats their meal. You actually had a meal in peace. It is all wonderful…then you dare begin to nurse your child. Yes, your child may be older than what is stereotypically portrayed as “acceptable”, but you both have been enjoying and thriving from your breastfeeding experience.

Well, it is that time of year again. The huss and buss of the holidays. It seems there is always excitement and magic in the air…accompanied by overflowing schedules and that aunt who just has to comment on your every move. This is why I thought it was rather timely for some “Shut up, Karen” blogs.

My top 3 boundaries I tell all working moms to strive to hone.

Nothing that makes me roll my eyes quite like scrolling Instagram and seeing the latest and greatest wearable pump being advertised by some “mother”, who supposedly can Olympic lift, try out for the Russian ballet, and take a nap while pumping 8oz of breastmilk in a 20 minute session.

So then that begs the questions, that can a baby who is fed breastmilk through a bottle still be deemed as a breastfed baby?

Sadly, we have to wrap this month up though with the hormone that actually hurts our milk supply. Estrogen diminishes our milk supply.

Progesterone is not commonly talked about, however, it still plays a role in the lactation process.

Prolactin is the real milk making hormone! Although other hormones, like oxytocin, are necessary in order to produce milk, prolactin is responsible for some breast tissue development and the production of milk.

I think oxytocin is most talked about when referencing “how to increase my milk supply?” or “how is milk made?” However, most do not actually understand how oxytocin affects the production of human milk.

I will be a breastfeeding bridesmaid, again, this weekend supporting my soon-to-be sister-in-law.

Well, there I was 8 days post C-section slowly pushing a stroller across the park. Kai might have only been a week old, but my oldest had a ballgame!

And there I was fully expecting to learn that my 3rd child was in fact my soon-to-be only daughter.