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Tips for Buying Nursing Bras

Your belly isn’t the only thing that expands during pregnancy. You’ll find that your bras will fit a little more snugly, too, if they fit at all. After your baby is born, when your milk comes in, is when the real changes happen. For example, you might start off as a 34B, grow to a 36C during your pregnancy, expand to a 36DD when your milk comes in, and return to a 36D cup once your milk supply is regulated. These constant changes in bust size make bra shopping tricky! Bras you buy during your last trimester may fit again … Continue reading →

Tips for Nursing Moms

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If you are new to breastfeeding, you may still have a lot of questions, especially when it comes to nursing products. Do you need special breastfeeding pillows? Nursing covers? Which bras do you need? What about nursing apparel? I’ve figured out what works and what doesn’t, and I can tell you first hand what you need to buy and what you don’t. There are tons of products out there for nursing moms and even if you buy it all, it’s more than likely you won’t use it all. We use our nursing pillow for all types of things besides breastfeeding … Continue reading →

Solutions: Excess Lipase And Sour Breast Milk

Upon discovering that my properly-stored breast milk consistently tasted sour, I talked with other moms and did research to try to solve the mystery of what was making it taste so bad. I discovered that the likely cause was an excess of lipase. Lipase is an enzyme contained in breast milk that breaks fats down into individual fatty acids. Lipase is part of why breast milk is so easily digestible for babies. It’s good that we have lipase in our breast milk. However, too much lipase results in fat being broken down too quickly. (The fat in milk is apparently … Continue reading →