How Do Epidurals Affect Breastfeeding?
Learn how breastfeeding may be impacted by epidurals and how to alleviate the difficulties they may cause.
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Help To Relieve Pain From Breastfeeding With Postnatal Yoga
Discover how to treat pain from breastfeeding that can be caused by repetitive movements and bad posture. Learn how postnatal yoga can help!
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Top 5 Breastfeeding Podcast Episodes
This blog is filled with our top Yoga | Birth | Babies breastfeeding podcast episodes & lactaction resources because August is National Breastfeeding Month! This is a month dedicated to advocacy, protection & education around breastfeeding. This month is kicked off by World Breastfeeding Week (8/1-8/7). World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) aims to inform, anchor, engage
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Navigating Breastfeeding at Work
In this episode of Yoga | Birth | Babies, I speak with author and Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Nancy Mohrbacher about how to support breastfeeding women at work and help them navigate pumping. For any person facing the end of maternity leave and wondering about they will be able to manage keeping their supply
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Family Bonding Time
Early on as a new parent, my husband and I created a very sweet and nurturing nighttime routine. When my son would wake up for a 3am feeding, I would prop myself up with pillows, get my son established on my breast, and settle in as he would read aloud to us. The book was Eat Cake, and
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February Mom of the Month: Meet Michelle Tsang!
Community and support are a vital part of Prenatal Yoga Center. To help encourage relationships and get to know one another a little better, we like to introduce a new mom and her baby each month. This month, please meet Michelle Tsang and her 5 1/2 month son, Ryan. Is this your first baby? Yes
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Breastfeeding 101 with Tamara Hawkins
In the episode of Yoga | Birth | Babies, I speak with Tamara Hawkins, FNP, RN, IBCLE, LCCE, CHHC, Director of Stork and Cradle. We talk about everything an expectant and new mother needs to know. We cover a wide range of topics from breastfeeding in the first few days of baby’s arrival to what
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Dr. Jack Newman of the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic
In this episode of Yoga | Birth | Babies, I speak with renowned breastfeeding expert, Dr. Jack Newman. My goal of this podcast is for new parents to make informed, educated choices about why they may or may not choose to breastfeed. We focus specifically on how to hep the parent who chooses to breastfeed get a good
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7 Steps to Surviving Early Motherhood
The first few weeks of motherhood can be daunting and throw even the most confident, successful woman for a loop. Here are 7 tips aimed to help make this transition a little smoother. Get out of the house. Unless there is inclement weather, you and your new best pal- your baby- need to get
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Ballerinas and Babies: American Ballet Theater’s Kelley Potter Discusses Motherhood and Dancing
In today’s podcast I had the privilege of interviewing Kelley Potter, ballerina for American Ballet Theater. Kelley openly talks about balancing life and career as a professional ballerina and the struggles she has faced. Kelley’s honesty and candor is sure to inspire you! For more about Kelley visit ABT.org
Life After Baby: The Fairy Tale and the Reality
I clearly remember the vision I had of what my maternity leave with my first baby was going to be like. It was the first time in my adult life that I would be away from work – well teaching at least- for an extended period of time. I thought it would be kind of
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Cesarean Birth and Its Recovery
Last week in Prenatal class we were discussing going into birth with an open mind and not being attached to a certain birth plan. I referred to this as having plan A, B and C in place! According to the Center of Disease Control, our current national average cesarean rate is 32.8% (1). With that
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Eating During Labor Should Not Be Forbidden
In the movies and on TV, laboring women are often depicted as panting, sweaty and sucking on ice chips. Luckily, that image can finally change! After years of food and fluid intake being restricted for women in labor, there has been a closer scientific look at this practice and the ban has been (somewhat) lifted.
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Breastfeeding In Public
I clearly remember my first outing with Shay when I knew I would end up feeding him out of the house. As a new mother, I was a bit nervous since I had a whole “breastfeeding station” set up at home. This included a supportive pillow, water bottle, stool for my feet, right to expose
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Why Breastfeeding? Benefits for Mama and Baby
Welcome to August, aka Breastfeeding Awareness Month! To kick off our month long celebration, we are going to be featuring blogs about breastfeeding, the benefits of it, doing it in public, and proper nutrition for breastfeeding, just to name a few. We are also doing a Karma Yoga event here at the studio on August
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NYC and Its “Baby Friendly” Hospitals
In 1991, UNICEF and WHO (World Health Organization) launched the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in hopes of encouraging and educating hospitals and staff to promote, protect and support breastfeeding. Studies have indicated exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of the baby’s life can dramatically reduce the chance of asthma, type 1 and 2
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Are You Getting The Right Nutrition While Breastfeeding?
I found that a great deal of attention and information was given to me while pregnant about receiving proper nutrition. However, upon entering the postpartum phase, all I heard was “make sure you get enough water to compensate for the fluids lost while breastfeeding.” But besides the reminder to hydrate well, very little was discussed
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Breastfeeding: Getting the Support You Need
After teaching a postnatal class two weeks ago, a few of the mothers and I began talking about breastfeeding, and the support one may need during that period. One mother, Dina, who was bottle feeding, shared her story about why she was no longer breastfeeding. “About half my friends did not breastfeed so when I
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Breastfeeding While Pregnant?
To be honest, I had not really thought about this topic until one of my postnatal students reappeared in my prenatal yoga class. I was thrilled to see her back on the other side for another round of prenatal yoga with us! After chatting for a bit, she explained that her doctor advised her to
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