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09/04/2025

08/01/2025

Happy World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7, 2025.
You’re doing it mamas! For some it has been a breeze and for others you have fought long and hard to make it work. Even if you were only able to give your baby several days of colostrum you helped them get those antibodies.

We see you :)

05/29/2025

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01/04/2025

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12/28/2024

08/06/2024

Did you know that many factors surrounding your pregnancy and birth can affect the baby’s success with breastfeeding? You are not without some great solutions though!

We recommend you seek out three people: a good Chiropractor who is trained to work on newborns and infants, A Cranial Sacral Therapist (CST), and a Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) who is also trained in CST.

Why should you have each of them?

A chiropractor can ensure a baby's spine and neck are aligned and can help if they favor one side.

CST can do bodywork to release the tension that is caused by development and birth, which makes it extremely hard for a baby to effectively nurse and get milk out.

A Good Lactation consultant is great because they help you succeed in whatever you want your breastfeeding journey to look like. They can help find the tension and help with position to best help you and your baby. Finding a lactation consultant specializing in CST is a double win!

06/04/2024

This is one of the coolest human milk facts!

•An enzyme in human milk interacts with particular compounds in infant saliva to produce hydrogen peroxide and other antibacterial compounds.

•A new in vitro study that mimicked the environment of the human infant mouth during breastfeeding found that human milk and saliva mixtures inhibited bacterial growth for up to 24 hours.

•Interactions between human milk and saliva may influence the establishment of the infant oral and gut bacterial communities.

•In 2015, the researchers reported that infant saliva contained nearly ten times the amount of the compounds xanthine and hypoxanthine as adult saliva. Even more interesting, the transition from infant to adult concentrations started at weaning.

•All signs pointed to a special function for these compounds while the infant was nursing, leading the team to an amazing, and serendipitous, discovery: the interaction of xanthine and hypoxanthine from infant saliva with the enzyme xanthine oxidase (XO) from human milk produces hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and other antimicrobial compounds.

•Hydrogen peroxide is used on minor scrapes and cuts to prevent infection. It has similar antimicrobial actions inside the infant mouth as well.

•Each time your baby feeds there is the potential for immediate and prolonged antimicrobial effects, which may be critical in keeping pathogenic organisms from colonizing the infant gut.

•As predicted, there are significant differences in oral microbial communities between formula- and human milk-fed infants. But not all infants receiving human milk receive the XO enzyme, either. Heating and freezing damage the enzyme, meaning that infants drinking pasteurized human milk or milk that has been previously frozen—which is often the case with pumping—will have missed out on the antimicrobial effects of H2O2 and LPO as well.

•It is not yet known how these infants’ oral microbiomes may differ, if at all, from those receiving fresh milk via breast or bottle. Such a comparison has the potential to tease out how important H2O2 is, among the many ingredients in infant drool, in regulating the types and quantities of microorganisms in the infant mouth and gut.

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05/30/2024

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12/16/2023

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08/31/2023

So many great benefits