You’re pumping your milk and you can see exactly how many ounces you’ve expressed. You’re good. Later, you start to fret: “Is this enough? Maybe…
It seems simple. You can thaw your milk just like you’d thaw ground beef or a chunk of chocolate cake, right? Not so fast there.…
I recently talked about the common questions I hear about the safety of freezing milk for newborns and infants. Today, I’ll address some questions I…
For years, I’ve fielded tons of questions about freezing milk for newborns or older infants. In the last decade or so, the number of questions…
We know about the benefits of breastfeeding, and have for years. But what makes it so very special? What are the components of human milk,…
We Americans have learned to think that bigger is better. Bigger cars, bigger houses, bigger servings of food. (For instance, have you ever been in…
When I was a young nurse, only a handful of milk banks dotted the United States. Then, in the early 1980s, we had the big…
In the 1970s, the late, great Dr. Derrick Jelliffe said that “breast is best.” This soon became the mantra of tens of thousands of breastfeeding…