Grand Traverse County WIC Breastfeeding Support

08/05/2021

It's World Breastfeeding Week! Celebrate by sharing your "why". What is it that motivated you to want to breastfeed your baby?

06/18/2021

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03/31/2021

03/10/2021

😮 BREASTFEEDING MYTH 😮
"You need to use BOTH of your breasts to breastfeed your baby and make enough milk"

You don’t actually need two breasts to breastfeed. In most, not all cases, one breast can make all the milk you will need.

This is how moms can feed multiples so successfully!

Some babies may even develop a preference for one side over the other. Most women have a “dominant breast”, one that makes more milk or the let-down is faster. The baby can start to prefer this side because the “reward” is greater.

Many women even exclusively nurse on one breast and make plenty of milk to completely feed their baby. ❤️

Does your baby prefer one side over the other? Does one side make more? Which one?

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03/04/2021

Breastfeeder Strength 💪🏻

This image of British ultrarunner Sophie Power breastfeeding her 3-month-old son, Cormac, was taken at a rest stop 16 hours into the 106-mile Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc - UTMB ❤

“Oh my god, I was in agony," she told Runner's World UK of this moment. "Cormac usually feeds every three hours, and it took me 16 to get to Courmayeur where he could first meet me, so I was hand expressing everywhere I could en route. I was so relieved he was hungry!”

Sophie took the race slow and steady and made subtle changes to the way she ran because she was breastfeeding.

"In a typical race I would get in and out of the aid stations as quickly as possible, but here I had to focus on keeping down enough food for me and for Cormac, and resting,” she said.

She completed the intense race through France, Italy and Switzerland in 43 hours and 33 minutes.💪🏻

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03/04/2021

Happy IBCLC Day to all my colleagues!

Even though there are over 33k International Board Certified Lactation Consultants worldwide, I want to give a special shout-out to the IBCLCs who are the ONLY IBCLC in their whole country.

There is ONLY ONE IBCLC in the following countries:
American Samoa
Albania
Armenia
Bangladesh
Belarus
Bhutan
Bolivia
Botswana
Cameroon
Ethiopia
Greenland
Guernsey
Isle of Man
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Leichtenstein
Mongolia
Myanmar
Nepal
New Caldonia
North Macedonia
Northern Mariana Islands
Republic of Maldova
Senegal
Sri Lanka
Tunisia
Zimbabwe

Those in the above countries and those who have less than a handful of IBCLCs to serve their whole countries deserve a crazy amount of praise today!

02/28/2021

Wishing a wonderful day to all the beautiful new-BORNS. 💕💕💕

02/25/2021

Do you ever second-guess your milk production after pumping? Do you compare it with the volume of milk your friend or neighbor pumps? Do you compare it with the milk you pumped for a previous baby? Before you start to worry, you first need to know how much pumped milk is average. Many mothers discov

02/25/2021

BABY FACT
Your baby’s sense of taste begins to develop while still in the womb.
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By 9 weeks of pregnancy, the baby’s mouth and tongue have developed and so have the first taste buds!

While surrounded by amniotic fluid the baby will naturally breathe and swallow it. This supports the development of the digestive system and the lungs.

The flavors in the foods you eat will pass through your bloodstream and into the amniotic fluid where your baby can taste and also smell them! This is their first experience of different flavors.

Newborn babies are born with very sensitive taste buds that can differentiate between sweet and sour tastes. They prefer the sweet taste, which is why they love the taste of breast milk. Breast milk is very sweet with 10 times the amount of lactose (milk sugar) as cow’s milk!

Babies do not develop the taste for salty flavors until around 5 months of age.

It is not true that flavorful or spicy foods are not okay to eat while pregnant or breastfeeding, as well as all vegetables.

It is important to continue to eat a wide variety of foods as this is a critical time in your baby’s taste bud development!

📸 Unscripted

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02/12/2021

BREASTFEEDING FACT 🌮🍤🥘
Human breast milk contains the smells and flavors of what you eat.

The baby tasted these same flavors in utero (through the amniotic fluid) and breastfeeding continues to help the baby become used to the cultural food preferences and flavors of their family.

It is not true that flavorful or spicy foods are not okay to eat while breastfeeding, as well as all vegetables.

It is important to continue to eat a wide variety of foods as this is a critical time in your baby’s taste bud development.

📸: Cinthia Pomaski - Doula

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02/04/2021

P L A C E N T A ❤️
the only temporary organ, a multifunctional organ, acting as baby's lungs to supply oxygen, kidneys to filter out waste, and as gastrointestinal and immune systems by delivering nutrients and antibodies.

• MATERNAL SIDE:
attached to uterine wall

• FETAL SIDE:
connected to baby via umbilical cord

✨ The placenta detaches from the inside of the uterus after the baby is born, this leaves behind a wound 6-8 inches in diameter that needs time for healing to ward off infection and hemorrhaging—at least 4-6 weeks for the wound to completely heal.

One of the many reasons birth givers need lots of rest and community care to recover & heal✨

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