First Mom Discoveries
Why you shouldn’t worry about breastmilk I wished someone told me I should stop worrying about producing colostrum. Colostrum is the early stages of your body ramping up breastmilk production . It’s important to produce and keep the colostrum in the freezer before your baby arrives. It’s full of antibodies that protects your newborn. My mother was one of the women who stressed over how to start breastfeeding a newborn. She ended up giving up trying after only 1 week. Not only that, the pain from attempting to breastfeed a newborn made her steer clear from it . Hence, I only knew powder milk. Fast forward a few decades later and here I am. A mother of my own. I wished someone told me that you could start using either a manual or electrical breast pump to massage the breasts in your last trimester . This is essential as stimulating the breasts sends a signal to the brain to produce hormones that switches on breast milk production. Think of it like starting a manua...