Mary Lanning Healthcare - Breastfeeding Support

09/10/2025

Baby Weighs Thursday September 11
Hastings at Home Away from Home
9am-noon

09/08/2025

Happy First Birthday to sweet Miss Cara! She is thriving on moms milk!! Look at those little teefers!!!

09/03/2025

Baby Weighs Hastings and Central City Thursday, Sept 4th!
CC 9-11am
Hastings 9am-noon

08/27/2025

Baby Weighs Hastings
Thursday, August 28th
9am-noon
Home Away from Home basement

08/27/2025

All babies lose some weight in the first 24 hours. If you received IV fluids during labour, your baby may lose even more, not because of feeding, but because the fluids make the birth weight look higher than it really is.

That’s why the 24-hour weight is the most accurate starting point for tracking growth.

Researchers in Canada found that using the 24-hour weight instead of the birth weight helped more babies stay exclusively breastfed in their first few days of life.

Growing well = getting enough milk. ❤️

08/20/2025

The food you eat and the water you drink do not magically go directly to your breast milk. What you eat and drink goes first to your stomach to be broken down and then into your intestines to be absorbed and processed. Your digestive system breaks nutrients into parts small enough for your body to absorb and use for energy, growth, and cell repair. The muscles of the small intestine mix food with digestive juices from the pancreas, liver, and intestine. Special cells in the walls of the small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into your bloodstream. Your blood carries molecule-sized components such as simple sugars (carbohydrates), amino acids, white blood cells, enzymes, water, fat, and proteins throughout your body. As blood passes by the breasts, milk glands pull out these nutrients for milk production and pass some of them to your baby. Not all molecules are small enough to pass through into milk. (That’s why some medications are safe to take while breastfeeding and some are not. Molecules that are too big can’t get into the milk while really small molecules can.)

Nuts, seeds, beans, and grains all have plant based proteins. Meat and dairy are animal based proteins. Both plant and animal proteins carried in your blood can make it into your milk. Sometimes these proteins can affect baby’s digestive system, causing symptoms like reflux, gas, colic, and blood or mucus in the poops from iritations to baby’s intestinal lining. Diary proteins are the most common cause of upset in the stomach, however research suggests that the proportion of exclusively breastfed infants who are actually allergic to something in their mother’s milk is very small. (https://bit.ly/3rFHotE). Fussiness and gas alone are not enough to diagnose a cow milk protein allergy.

In general, there are NO foods that need to be avoided because you’re breastfeeding. Every baby is different in the foods they are sensitive to. IF your baby always seems to have a reaction when you eat a certain food or a large amount of a certain type of food, cutting back on it or cutting it out temporarily may be helpful.

08/20/2025

Check out these cuties!!!

08/20/2025

Baby Weighs Thursday, August 21st.
2 locations
Central City 9-11am and Hastings 9am-noon

08/20/2025

Thank you to everyone who works so hard to support breastfeeding in our state!!!

08/15/2025

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We’re excited to welcome Mary Lanning Healthcare to our 1:1 Hospital Campaign! 🎉 What a great way to celebrate National Breastfeeding Month!

A heartfelt thank you to all the hospitals that stand behind Nebraska’s lactation providers:
Bryan Health • CHI Health • Children’s Nebraska • Methodist Health System • Nebraska Medicine • Mary Lanning Healthcare

🤝 Interested in joining our hospital support team? Email info@breastfeeding.org or visit https://nebreastfeeding.org/how-to-help/

08/13/2025

Baby Weighs Thursday August 13th in Hastings
9am-noon
Home Away from Home