Here's a few of my tips :) 1) Look into Elvie before you buy Haaka stuff. I got their suction pump and catch cups, theyre the same tools BUT they fit into your bra and are actually shaped like a breast so you don't have weird lumps like with the Haaka lady bug. 2) 8 weeks before due date put a 1/2 lemon juice and 1/2 water mixture on your nipples every night. It helps prepare them for breast feeding, i did this and never had any cracks/breaks/blisters and my baby had a class 4 lip tie.(aka the worst tie you can have, lip totally flat.) 3) Speaking of lip ties, make sure your midwife/doctors checks them and if they have it and breastfeeding is starting to get painful then get it fixed! It's so worth it and they won't remember it at all. I tell my friends it's better for them to go through it when they won't remember and you be able to breastfeed than you trying to suffer through and end up quitting breastfeeding early. 4) Witching hour is a vicious cycle. If your baby falls into it. Do whatever you have to to break it, get someone to watch other kids, and just focus on them eating and sleeping whenever they want. Do whatever is necessary. 5) Breastmilk can cure a pink eye like instantly. And can help reduce depth and darkness of stretch marks. 6) Use rosehips oil once you start getting biiger (2nd Tri) to prevent stretch marks. Everyone says coconut oil but the molecules are too big to get to the deeper layers of tissue where the stretch marks begin. Rose hip oil has much smaller molecules and can penetrate deeper. (Ps. I have no stretch marks on my belly where i put it every night but i do on my hips where i failed to put it.) 7) If your interested in cloth diapering, consider looking into EC as well. I hope this helps some expecting or new mama. Wish you all the best! 😊
The #1 thing I would tell myself before I had baby is: SIDE LYING POSITION. It’s saved my breastfeeding relationship, and it’s so easy and comfortable! Also, thank you so much for this. I listened to your podcasts with Natalie over and over again when they first came out, and they were SO helpful.
I had the silver discs and multiple different creams for my nipples to be prepared for breast-feeding my first and I never needed any of it….. I think breastmilk helped but mostly I think my baby just latched super well. Didn’t expect that at all lol
I went to breastfeeding group at my hospital every Monday for 3 months to help with latching, and a lactation consultant would weigh before and after I fed my son, and that’s how they knew the amount of milk baby was getting👌🏻 LACTATION 👏🏻 CONSULTANT 👏🏻
I chose not to breast feed, didn't want to, but friends did, and one breast fed up to 18 months. My European relatives breast fed constantly, and I believe they also laid on their side as well.
Literally watching this while doing the cuddle curl :D it's great of you to share about this lifesaver!! And about life savers, your videos were very helpful to me getting through the beginning of our breastfeeding journey when it was super tough (it gets so much easier!). One tip you gave that I found extra useful was about how to know if the latch is right based on the shape of the nipple (shaped like a 💄= not a great latch, more like a chapstick=good). Thank you, really.
All of this advice is ON POINT. I exclusively nursed for a year and I agree with every single piece of advice. Wish I had this video before starting my breastfeeding journey but thank you for putting it out there now!
you have no idea how much I needed to hear all this to ease my mind with baby # 2 coming. I struggled with my first & I really want to be successful & no pumping this time! I had an awful oversupply with the first.. no pumping and allowing baby to create the supply it needs!
The thing I didn’t know is that bottle refusal was a thing. I had the general preference for breastfeeding over formula and took the ‘avoid nipple confusion’ advice…then my baby refused bottles after I waited the ‘appropriate’ amount of time to introduce bottles. She’s still refusing bottles and is four months old. So returning to work is not going how I envisioned 😅
Every time my babies get sick my milk supply goes through the roof. My baby had a small fever for two days-I fed him, then pumped 9 1/2 oz, then fed him again. Normally I pump around 5 oz per session. The human body is wild.
Thanks for the great info! I found that my son was teething at 8 weeks! We were confused at his “witching hour” until we treated him like a teething baby. Then he was fine every time. Such a relief.
I had no idea you can side lie and breastfeed your baby while they are falls asleep during the night. They just roll over sleep cycles smoothly! So helpful if you co-sleep 🤯
PSA: Breastfeeding is not supposed to be painful or even uncomfortable. Both can be caused by a lot of things. There are ways to approach all of the possible problems and find a solution. Don't settle for discomfort and pain! Talk to a professional; they can help you figure out the problem and a solution. Edit: Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding is a great resource.
What is also amazing about cuddle curl is that if you have a really strong let down it doesn't bother baby so much because they are drinking against gravity and so the let down isn't strong when you lie down. This is a game changer for me and my strong let down. Can also put the baby on your tummy and lie on your back obvy, but side lie is more comfy.
2020 mom here. I was disappointed in my hospital because they really pushed formula. They told me my son was jaundice so he needed formula. It took a week to see the lactation consultant on site. I just felt totally defeated with breast feeding. I wish I had have seen a video like this while I was pregnant so I could have prepared better. It really didn't help that we were in lockdown so I couldn't even get help from family. I hope this video helps other parents out so they have a better experience!
One thing I didn't know was that if you are determined to breastfeed, then have your pump ordered, figured out and sterilized BEFORE birth. If your baby is early, in the NICU, or just struggles with latch, then you have an option to feed them and keep your supply up
I had no idea about the cluster feeding , and how your baby is signaling to the breast to make more milk for their upcoming growth spurt! 🙌 I recently had to Google search, " Why is my baby biting and pulling my nipple?" ( ouch!) Turns out that is one way they stimulate the breast for another let down. For me , im now using that as my signal that i need to switch sides. (Sometimes I zone out through a feeding ,lol.) Also , had no idea the haaka folds back like that! Thank you, shayla! We are cut from the same cloth when it comes to mothering , you give information that I DESPERATELY NEED. Much love from Michigan!
About the tongue tie, it's best to have it released even if everything's going well & your child has no speech problems because it can cause problems in adulthood. My husband has an undiagnosed tongue tie and he has sleep apnea, inability to swallow pills properly, obesity, poor dental hygiene, frequent migraine, unable to French kiss, to name a few. I didn't know he has tongue tie until my baby son was diagnosed with it. Look up online on the consequences of untreated tongue ties for infants, children and adult. Just wanted to share.
I actually fell on a bunny nest in my yard a few weeks ago and all the bunnies ran out but when I checked on them later they were fine and now they’re all small young adult buns hopping around my yard 😂
This is great. I am one week postpartum. I would love to hear more about your pumping schedule. That is some thing. I have really not got a straight answer on from anyone. Some people say to do it at the same time every day, but if the breastmilk changes, I wonder if it’s better to find a way to switch it up or pump more than once?
New mom for 8 weeks here. Breastfeeding has been ao challenging for us. We have this whole team helping us..chiro, lact. Cons, speech path, dentist for tongue & lip tie, and cranialsacral massage therapist..it's ao exhausting. The first 3 weeks i had to triple feed, then went to double feeding, now primarily nursing but still have to pump and supplement a little. I have bought nearly every Breastfeeding product out there. There is something called boom trove, just like haaka but shaped differently and fits in your bra! I wear it around sometime because im trying to build my supply. It's comfortable too.
Breastfeeding is the hardest thing I've ever done. I could not get the haakaa to work, my milk came in sloooowly over the course of a month (didn't know that could happen), she didn't latch properly for weeks, pumping was painful due to elastic nipples, we kept waking her up to feed her waay past when we needed to, our baby never had witching hour, and I never experienced cluster feeding. I was so unprepared for all the things breastfeeding despite all the research I did.
Breastfeeding is such a steep learning curve for both mom and baby! Support is invaluable, since most people nowadays are not naturally around a tribe of experienced mothers and grandmothers who have seen it all and can help.
Hey, adore your videos. Watched them for all the information with my first pregnancy and I'm still watching hem now. I had to exclusively pump and that was a whole education but one thing that bummed me out was people separating a distinction between pumping and breastfeeding. It's so much more inclusive to say we're all breastfeeding but some of us nurse and some of us pump.xx
