Facing breastfeeding challenges as a new mom
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Founder and CEO of Kids in the House, Leana Greene, shares her personal experience with breastfeeding challenges and how she overcame them.
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So breastfeeding is not easy. And I failed completely with my first child. It was really hard. I felt really judged by a lot of other mothers. And I felt like I failed with the first thing in motherhood.
So with my second child, I said I’m not going to judge myself and I’m not going to let other people judge me. It’s okay. I’m going to try. If it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work. And I did a few things differently.
Number one, I started pumping right away. That was very helpful. My doctor also gave me a prescription for Domperidome that I took for 6 months. Gave me no side effect. Worked out well. You can check with your health care provider.
And the biggest thing I did that made the biggest difference was I co-slept with my baby. And you can do this very safely. I had one pillow, no blanket, big old pajamas in a warm room. I think that nursing through the night increased my breast milk supply. And it also helped me get some sleep, because by then I had another child.
By the time I had my third child, I breast fed him for a long-long-long time. So it is possible to be successful with nursing after it didn’t work out for you the first time.
Founder and CEO of Kids in the House, Leana Greene, shares her personal experience with breastfeeding challenges and how she overcame them.
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Leana GreeneCEO of KidsintheHouse.com
Leana Greene is the founder and CEO of Kids In The House, the world's largest parenting video library and a mother to three kids. She spent three years interviewing 500 parenting experts from all over the United States, giving her a uniquely strong grasp on the latest in parenting and the different perspectives of many experts. Leana’s goal in creating Kids in the House was to create a multi-media hub where parents everywhere could get quick, easy information from leading experts that they would otherwise be unable to access. Leana is constantly looking at the data on KidsintheHouse.com and has the finger on the pulse of what parents are concerned about today.
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