Lactation Consultant

Just when you think there couldn’t be another benefit to breastfeeding, a conversation with a friend, thankfully, proves you wrong. She was telling me about her mother’s recovery from breast cancer. When I asked if the doctors had any ideas about potential or likely causes, she said that hormone therapy used in treating menopause [...]

I had heard that breastfeeding would be painful at first but never realized that the letting down of milk would actually sting a bit. When my milk eventually came in, my nipples would sting like they were having strong contractions. This caught me off guard but became the norm during feeding sessions. [...]