If you want to maintain your milk supply, then what you eat matters. As a breastfeeding second-time mom, I learned with my first how important it is to make sure I’m consuming foods and drinks that will maintain and increase my milk supply. Because the last thing you want as a breastfeeding mom is your supply dropping when you have a hungry baby. I currently have a 9-month-old who is breastfeeding and not showing any signs of weaning anytime soon. My first daughter nursed for 18 months before she weaned herself. So it is possible that this baby may nurse…

As a breastfeeding mom, I want to make sure I’m taking in and doing things that are boosting my milk supply for my baby girl. As I am writing this post, we are going 4 months strong and my baby girl is a great nurser. In fact, right after I had given birth to her, she was already rooting around and searching for the milk. This child came out knowing what to do and how to latch which I’m so thankful for. So since I have a child that knows what to do, I have to make sure that I’m…

I have to admit that my body after having a second baby has not changed a lot from my body after having my first child. Now don’t get wrong, my body has changed, but the differences are what I expected to happen. When you have a baby, your body goes through a lot throughout pregnancy from stretching to accommodate a tiny human to your breasts getting larger to hold the milk that will feed your child. As much as all of us hate what our stretching bodies leave behind once we have given birth, it was necessary to get our…

For all of my second-time moms out there, what are your breastfeeding essentials? After all, this isn’t your first rodeo breastfeeding, so you already know what worked with the last kid, so hopefully what worked last time will work this time as well. For those who are wondering, I did breastfeed my first daughter. I breastfeed her for 18 months and I would say that we had a successful breastfeeding journey. When I became a mom for the first time, I obviously did not have any experience breastfeeding so I had to learn through experiencing it myself. Like many moms,…

I’m going into 6 weeks postpartum this week and I’m finally ready to share my postpartum must-haves for second-time moms that have gotten me through these last few weeks. Since this is my second time giving birth, I already knew some of what I would need to recover postpartum. So I began stocking up on what I would need and put some of the items that I would need on my baby registry for others to get if they choose to. Luckily, I had friends and family get those items for me, so I had them ready when I got…