Soft breasts don’t mean no milk
Soft breasts don’t mean no milk
A lot of mum’s panic at around the 4 to 6 week mark when all of a sudden breasts that were always full are now soft, breasts that were ever leaking, no longer leak.
This is normal! It doesn’t mean you don’t have milk or that you don’t have enough.
Just means that your body has figured out how much milk your baby needs and is now producing just that. That’s how effecient our bodies are!
If you have concerns about your supply, do not hesitate to contact me via the link on my bio.
Remember, you’re doing great mama
❤️ Mama Muthoni
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April is CS Awareness Month
CS is one of those things that society loves to hate. Yet many times they are necessary and they save many lives. Other times mom choses to have one and that’s ok too. But society makes us feel like we failed as mom’s when we have a C-section.
I had my first child via CS and I cried for MONTHS because I felt like my body let me down. I had planned a homebirth. Laboured for days only to get to hospital and find baby was breech. We did a CS as I was not psychologically ready to push and doc didn’t seem confident about breech vaginal birth.
After a few months I accepted that I did birth. Pushing a baby out is not what makes a birth. Pregnancy, process of getting the baby and post partum is what births both a baby and a mother. (There are other ways too).
My body did not fail me.
Your body did not fail you.
What’s your CS story?
Protect breastfeeding, Shared responsibility.
Feed every 3 hours is one of the biggest ways mom’s are misled in hospital.
This directive is good for sleepy babies who are usually sick or born premature who would otherwise not wake themselves for a feed. So this ensures they get the MINIMUM number if feeds required.
Feed baby on demand. It’s normal to feed even 12 or 14 times a day. Not just 7 or 8. Feed the baby not the clock.
It’s world breastfeeding week. The theme is protect breastfeeding, Shared responsibility. If from hospital we are told feeding often is normal, fewer mom’s would doubt they have enough therefore translating to more moms breastfeeding for longer.
Tag a mama who needs this
Remember, you’re doing great mama
❤️ Mama Muthoni
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