Are you wanting to breastfeed?  Hoping to return your baby to breast?  Or waiting until your preemie is strong and healthy enough to breastfeed?  It can sometimes be difficult to transition a baby to exclusive breastfeeding once they have received milk in a bottle, but it is certainly not impossible!  Read More…

this is it!!  Laboratory tests conducted by the Food and Drug Administration and a certified commercial laboratory showed that bisphenol A (BPA) is leaching from the metal can linings into ready-to-eat and concentrated infant formulas.  For more information, check out this website.

Check out a new book called The Milk Memos for inspiration and encouragement when juggling working and pumping and life with baby.  The book is a compilation of entries moms made into a common notebook left in the company’s lactation room.  It shares the difficulty of returning to work, the strength of women, and of course the effort and determination it takes to express milk for a baby when a mom returns to the workplace.

Have you seen the short video called “Milk Men”? An interesting (and humourous) documentary on male lactation and fathers breastfeeding (yes, it is physiologically possible). Read here for an article and further information on the subject.

In need of some pumping humour? Check out DadsLab.com for a video of a dad trying a breast pump to understand what exactly his wife experienced (the rest of the site is quite interesting as well).