Mothers are often surprised after birth when the hardest part of caring for their newborn is breastfeeding. They have been told breastfeeding is natural and easy, so they are often unprepared when their new baby cannot latch after birth. There are a myriad of reasons breastfeeding goes wrong, most of them are cultural or due to hospital policies that can be different from hospital to hospital and seemly, from staff member to staff member. So what to do? A lot of mothers give up in the first...

As a new mother, you are exposed to lots of conflicting advice about everything from which diapers are “best” to the “right way” to...

Every year around the Holidays, lactation consultants see a spike in mastitis. Usually it starts around mid-November and peaks at the end...