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Nothing demonstrates the bond between a mother and her baby quite like the journey from skin-to-skin contact to breastfeeding.

To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, we’re sharing one of our favorite insights from IBCLC Summer Friedmann, whose work has helped families around the world navigate their own breastfeeding journeys.

“You are the only home your baby has known, and the transition from a water world to our breathing world is a big one. Your baby now has to regulate blood sugar, body temperature, and drink. To ease that transition, place your naked baby on your bare chest. Just like magic, your body regulates their body temperature, raises their blood sugar, and triggers their instincts to root and look for the nipple for latching. The mother’s body has superpowers beyond milk making, believe it or not.” @donenaturally

Summer’s quote is a reminder that skin-to-skin isn’t just about bonding, it’s also one of the first steps in supporting a successful breastfeeding relationship.

Visit our Bonding Blog to read more of Summer’s expert guidance and discover resources to help you meet your breastfeeding goals.

Happy World Breastfeeding Week 🤍

Beautiful photo @quinceycarrollphotography
Beautiful mama @addyrose_

#worldbreastfeedingweek #skintoskin #breastfeeding #bonding bonsiebaby donenaturally

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Number 4 completely changed the way I thought about breastfeeding.

1️⃣ Breastfeeding is natural, but it doesn’t always come naturally.

2️⃣ A good lactation consultant can change everything. Don’t be afraid to ask for help early and often. Ask for one in the hospital right after birth, and then hire one to come to your home and work with you in your natural environment. (So thankful for @donenaturally and @lalactation )

3️⃣ The first 3-4 weeks can feel completely all-consuming, but it really does get easier. Usually by 6 weeks, you start to get into a good rhythm.

4️⃣ Cluster feeding can be normal, especially early on; it doesn’t mean you’re not making enough milk. Sometimes babies nurse simply because they want to. Breastfeeding isn’t just about hunger or thirst. It’s also comfort, connection, and regulation.

5️⃣ Your body and baby work together in incredible ways. When your baby is exposed to germs, your breastmilk adapts to help support their immune system. Your baby’s saliva sends signals to your body, so milk can be modified to fit their needs.

6️⃣ The biggest driver of milk supply is demand. The more milk that’s removed (by baby or pump), the more your body is signaled to make. Hydration and proper calorie intake will also help your body make milk.

So, to the moms who are in the thick of it: keep going, surround yourself with people who can support you, and trust your baby, trust your body. You’re doing an incredible job.

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We will never dismantle this patriarchal system-rooted in behaviorism and ableism—if so-called experts continue to function as cogs within it. Women, dyads, babies, caregivers—none of them require meaningful support if those with the greatest influence continue to shift the burden onto literal infants. We need pediatricians who are bold enough to say, “this is unacceptable-it is harmful to babies, harmful to parents, and instead of conditioning infants to suppress their needs at night, I insist that mothers receive actual, substantive support.” Practitioners who promote sleep training are obscuring the legitimate needs of both mothers and babies, further reinforcing a fundamentally broken system that absolves itself of providing real support. Promoting sleep training as anything other than a last-resort intervention, reserved for truly emergent circumstances, is medical negligence. Anyone unwilling to engage in meaningful discussion around infant wellbeing-because advocacy for infants feels uncomfortable or is perceived as vilifying-is not, in fact, prioritizing infant wellbeing.

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The newborn witching hour can make any mom feel like she’s doing something wrong.

But often, nothing is wrong at all.

One mom shares how weeks of evening fussiness led to a powerful reminder from a lactation expert @donenaturally

Babies don’t need fixing.
They need connection.

Skin-to-skin.
Babywearing.
Feeding on demand.

Sometimes the answer is simply showing up, again and again.

Read the full story on the blog 🤍

#skintoskin #attachment #witchinghour

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Happy IBCLC Day!

It all started with my first in 2002, when I received horrible care from an IBCLC in the NICU. That can’t be the kind of support women have available, I thought. I went on to have a wonderful breastfeeding experience with my son despite her neglect and negligence.

The fire had been ignited in me and I pivoted my entire career. I had to be a part of the solution for women. I couldn’t ignore it.

Four years later I became an accredited La Leche League Leader, providing phone/email support and leading support groups for families in the community.

Four more years later I passed my board exam for IBCLC and started in the hospitals providing care in Labor/Delivery, Postpartum and NICU units.

Ten years later I started a YouTube channel and left the hospital. Focusing on my private practice, I began seeing families in their homes and doing video calls all over the world! (most recently Bulgaria!)

I have been so lucky to be surrounded by really incredible healthcare professionals who have shaped me into the IBCLC I am today.

I treasure all of my families. You trust me with your precious hearts, time and babes. Working with you brings me the most joy. I know some of you have seen those tears well up in my eyes. 🥹

I can’t say it enough … how fun it is to see you grow as a family; grow as a mother and father, have more children, bigger kids, teens and even some college bound. It’s. The. Best.

These gorgeous faces are only a few of the many beautiful faces I’ve worked with over the last 20 years.

Thank you for bringing me into your lives and thank you to that awful IBCLC… she sparked a really good thing. 😘

#ibclc #lactation #baby #newborn #breastfeeding #summerjadefriedmann #donenaturally #youtube #newmom #newbaby #family

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🤱🏽 Happy IBCLC Day to my amazing local colleagues! Kansas City area families are lucky to be surrounded by such wonderful support!! ❤️

#lactationliz #ibclc #kansascitymoms #ibclcday #breastfeeding

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Here he was 11. My youngest Ziah. For all of my boys it was part of our nighttime ritual and I watched it slowly fade with my older boys. Without remembering the last time with Luna or Tevan.

I knew someday my singing to Ziah would fade as well.

It began to not be every night, then even less often. I knew the time was nearing when he’d stop asking for me to sing to him.

I began writing down the dates he asked. Keeping record. I knew by doing that it would give me the actual last day I sang to him before sleep. I love that I have that.

He’s nearing his 18th birthday. A grown man.

The very last time he asked me to sing to him was September 30th, 2024. He was 16 nearing his 17th birthday. Close to one year ago.

Wow. Time. 🥹 Tevan is 23. Luna nears 21 and Ziah nears 18.

Do what you can to record and memorialize your tender moments with your children. ❤️

Link to an article of mine, that I wrote in 2019, about how my breastfeeding and attachment that came from that, grew into singing to my boys for a grand total of 22.5 years.

https://www.donenaturally.com/blog/attachment-parenting-never-ends

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Every breastfeeding journey is unique. 💛
Some are easy, some are challenging—
all are beautiful.
This Breastfeeding Awareness Month,
we celebrate you and the bond you share.

Find all these stories and more in our bio 👆

#breastfeeding #breastfeedingawareness #breastfeedingmom #breastfeedingmama

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One of the best ways to orient your baby to the breast is by placing your baby skin-to-skin. This can happen immediately after birth, without the need to wipe your baby with a towel. You are the only home your baby has known, and the transition from a water world to our breathing world is a big one. Your baby now has to regulate blood sugar, body temperature, and drink. These are all things your body did for your baby in the womb. To ease that transition, place your naked baby on your bare chest. Just like magic, your body regulates their body temperature, raises their blood sugar, and triggers their instincts to root and look for the nipple for latching.⁠
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August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month, a topic that Bonsie is very passionate about. Breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact are closely connected because of the ways that skin-to-skin contact contributes to breastfeeding success. Both of these nurturing acts provide a cascade of benefits for mom and her baby, and we strongly believe that the world would be a better place if mothers simply had more time to cherish these loving moments together. ⁠
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Greater breastfeeding education and support are desperately needed for new moms, so we are providing you with priceless information from the most inspiring lactation consultant we know. Summer Friedmann is an IBCLC with her own private practice, called @donenaturally⁠
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She also has her own YouTube channel and Facebook group where she shares short videos and vital information to help moms all over the world reach their breastfeeding goals. In the content below, Summer shares what she wishes she had known as a new mom, now with 18 years of experience as an IBCLC and mother of three. (You’re going to want to bookmark this article!)

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More from a fun night!

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Summer J. Friedmann has the most up-to-date info on lactation aids for you in her GOLD Lactation 2024 presentation! Sign up by June 14 and learn at your own pace until July 2.

#GOLDLactation2024 #IBCLC #breastfeeding #LactationConsultant

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