The Milk Meg Blog
Do I have to pump when I start breastfeeding?
I remember sitting with a La Leche League Leader (volunteer breastfeeding counsellor) with my first born baby who was 3 months old at the time. I had a few questions that I was wondering about. [...]
People blame everything on breastfeeding!
Something wrong? Blame breastfeeding and tell them to wean! Any health care professional who advises a mother to just, "wean" their child abruptly, has NO idea what that would actually look like. I often hear [...]
Why is my friend’s baby sleeping and on a schedule and mine isn’t?!
So, imagine yourself sitting around a circle with other mothers. And as per usual, the conversation turns to how much our babies are sleeping and how often they are feeding. I'm sure this isn't hard [...]
Paced bottle feeding your breastfed baby
Have you heard of paced bottle feeding? This is a way of bottle feeding which you can do for any baby. However, for breastfed babies or babies who are primarily breastfed but have bottles when [...]
The single most effective way to increase your supply!
I've written a lot about low supply over the years. How to increase supply, how to drop supplements, myths surround low milk supply...and how YES, low supply is actually A THING! However there is something [...]
Digestive overload and overfeeding…it this actually a thing?!
Every once in awhile something breastfeeding related goes a bit viral and I start to get an influx of questions about a particular topic or start seeing it more in my newsfeed from sponsored posts. [...]
