The Top 5 Things Moms Need To Know Before Starting Breastfeeding

The Strong Moms Fitness Pregnancy and Postpartum Podcast with Daisy Bravo

The Top 5 Things Moms Need To Know Before Starting Breastfeeding
So my top five quick tips, I think for me we've talked a lot about bonding. And so with that comes breastfeeding mindset. I think that it's so important. I work with moms who know that they want to breastfeed.
And so when they go into it, they know, okay, this is exactly what I want to do. And they sorry, I totally lost my train of thought. Okay. Back to breastfeeding mindset, I'll get it. Anyways, so I work with moms, who know that they want to breastfeed. And so going into that, they have essentially.
Breastfeeding mindset. And so they know that they can reach out for support and they can get help and they don't quit on their worst day. I think that's so important. So that's tip number one is just having a growth, breastfeeding mindset. I would say. Tip number two, goes along with tip. Number one.
Is that getting that breastfeeding support? It's never too early. It's also not too late, but December too early to go ahead and get that support in the prenatal period is most ideal. But as soon as you are having, let's say you've had baby soon as you are having struggles and pain and difficulty to go ahead and reach out and get that.
Don't sit at home and struggle by yourself. There, there is support out there that can help you. This third tip is amazing and I so wish I was the inventor of this, but I'm not. So I'm going to recommend it. It's called a Hakka. Depending on how you want to say, it's just a little silicone pump and it catches in the early weeks.
It catches the letdown. So use you suction it to one breast while baby's feeding on the other breast and whatever is letting down from, from the breast that baby's not feeding on, it will catch it. You can strip freeze it up in your bags and you'll have, the initial, stash of breast milk.
That is tip number three, I would say tip number four and. Th these two things will go hand in hand, would be getting those gel nursing pads by Nadella and just put them in the freezer to help with nipple soreness. And, oh, it feels so good in those first couple of weeks with that. And just, with that just minor soreness.
And then on top of that, if you're having a lot of leaking instead of walking around with huge breastmilk stains all over you for the day just gets reusable nursing pads, and you can put the gel nursing pads and then put the reusable ones on top of that. And. I would say my last tip is there are so many myths floating around on the internet and on social media, I would make sure that when you read something you think about is this going to work for me?
And. Does this even make sense? And if it doesn't make sense, run it by your lactation counselor or your lactation consultant and get their professional opinion about it so that you can make the best decision for you.