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Maternity Care and Breast PumpingVideos

Grisel Gigato, Lactation Nurse with the Center for Women and Infants at South Miami Hospital, explains if mothers are not able to put their babies directly on the breast, they encourage them and support them with breast pumping. She points out breast milk is nutrition and medicine that mothers are providing and only they can […]

Maternity Care and Breast Pumping

Benefits of Breastfeeding for MomsVideos

Breastfeeding has a lot of benefits for moms such as: closer relationships between mom and baby, it reduces the risk of postpartum depression, lowers stress, less risk of ovarian cancer, it helps burn off pregnancy weight and helps prevent osteoporosis. Nursing itself increases the circulation of two hormones: prolactin and oxytocin. One of them produces […]

Benefits of Breastfeeding for Moms

Clogged Milk Ducts: SymptomsVideos

Engorgement, infrequent or skipped feedings, pressure on the duct, inflammation, and nursing frequently are some of the symptoms of clogged duct while breastfeeding. Jacquelyn Garcia, Lactation Nurse with the Center for Women and Infants at South Miami Hospital, says the mom should pump every three hours, because the longer she waits, the more at risk […]

Clogged Milk Ducts: Symptoms

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