Nurshable

Breastfeeding Basics

  • Sleep Training and the Breastfeeding Infant (The Newborn Sleep Book)

    There’s a “New Method” to help newborns sleep through the night and it’s been making its rounds in all of the groups that I’m in. It doesn’t even matter which method it is at this point. A method like this… Continue reading

  • You’re Making Me Uncomfortable Even When You’re Not There (NIP)

    Dear Person(s) Unknown, You make me far more uncomfortable than I make you. Think about it. I have no way of knowing if you’re lurking there in the corner thinking terrible things. I have no idea if you’re sitting there… Continue reading

  • “Just” for Comfort

    Dear Daughter, Sometimes you nurse “just” for comfort. Just. Because at two you “shouldn’t” need this anymore. Because the nutrition that you get from food, from meals cooked at the stove and from snacks picked from our garden, from the… Continue reading

  • Pumping Too Much Milk is Not Good

    This year I planted an experimental garden. Among the plants I chose were cherry tomatoes. These little tomatoes are very prolific. So prolific in fact that I cannot pick them all and handfulls of them fall to the ground to… Continue reading

  • Latch Tricks

    1- Try “gravity assist” positions. Laid back nursing where baby nurses “on top”, dangle nursing where you get on your hands and knees and lower your breast into baby’s mouth. It’s harder for baby to latch on shallowly when the… Continue reading

  • Schedules Bad, Routines Good.

    I don’t have my six and a half week old daughter on a schedule. Many of my friends hear this and say “OF COURSE NOT!” and some ask “why not?” I’m of the opinion that schedules are harmful for breastfed… Continue reading

  • laid back/upright nursing

      Love this nursing position. Laying on my side with my legs curled up behind baby and my torso rotated slightly back, baby sitting up and nursing. Great for refluxy babies and fast letdown. Added bonus: baby tends to burp… Continue reading

  • Is Breastmilk Deficient in Vitamin D?

    Breastmilk does have vitamin D. Low amounts of it that do not meet the RDA. Some call it “deficient”. This is misleading. Vitamin D is actually a prohormone, not a vitamin. Our skin synthesizes it when it is exposed to… Continue reading

  • Painful Toddler Nursing

    Disclaimer: Many people do not experience a “bad” phase of nursing. So don’t expect that nursing a toddler will be painful for you.. But if you DO experience it, take heart. Others have, too. And there are solutions. Painful toddler… Continue reading

  • “Getting Enough”

    The average breastfeeding baby consumes 19-30oz of breast milk per day.1 with the most common amount being 25oz per 24 hours. Oddly one of the more curious practices that I’ve heard of is bottle feeding a breastfed baby to “make… Continue reading