Nurturing Traditions Lactation Services

11/12/2025

Tongue Tie: It’s Not a Quick Fix, It’s a Puzzle.

When doctors say a tongue tie release “doesn’t work,” they are missing the bigger picture.

1. The Release Piece

First, the type of release matters. While even a partial “clip” may offer some benefit, achieving the full potential for feeding and development requires a complete release. A true solution starts with a proper procedure.

2. The Rehabilitation Piece

The release is NOT a quick fix; it’s simply the first step in a long rehabilitation process.
Think of it this way: Imagine your arm has been in a cast for six weeks. When the cast comes off, the bone is healed, but is your arm instantly strong and ready? No! The muscles are weak, stiff, and must be retrained through weeks of therapy.

The tongue is the same!

The tongue has 8 complex muscles that were compensating and working incorrectly even as your baby grew inside you. The release gives them freedom, but they are still weak and need training.

3. The Whole Puzzle

The release is just the key that unlocks the door. The hard work is the journey on the other side. A successful outcome requires:

✅Active Aftercare (Stretches)
✅Body Work & Follow-Up
✅Patience: Muscle retraining takes weeks or months!

Expecting instant results is the biggest reason people mistakenly believe the procedure “failed.” It’s not a failure of the procedure; it’s a lack of understanding about the entire puzzle needed for success.

11/11/2025

To all the veterans among my colleagues and clients: Thank you. Your service to our nation is a debt we can never fully repay. We honor your courage and commitment this Veterans Day.

Happy Veterans Day!

11/09/2025

11/08/2025

11/07/2025

Nursing in public is protected in every single state in the US, every province in Canada, and most other countries in the world.

I won’t cover.

You can if you want to, cover if that works for you.

You are also more than welcome to cover your own head if you can’t handle seeing a baby being fed.

But I won’t be asking my baby to accommodate your sensitivities and repressed ideals, I trust you can handle your big feeling about what I do with my child like a grown up.

11/03/2025

The National WIC Association (NWA) learned that $450 million in additional federal section 32 funding has been allocated to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The White House Office of Management and Budget has initiated the transfer...

11/03/2025

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11/01/2025

When Dr. Katie Hinde began studying breast milk, most scientists treated it as simple nutrition.
Calories, proteins, fat nothing more.
She looked closer and saw a language.
Katie discovered that milk changes depending on the baby’s needs.
A mother nursing a son produces milk richer in energy.
A mother nursing a daughter creates milk with more immune cells.
If a baby falls ill, the milk’s composition shifts within hours, an invisible conversation between
body and child.
Her research revealed something profound:
Breast milk is not a passive food. It’s a biological message system.
Dr. Hinde’s work redefined maternal science and exposed how modern medicine overlooked
women’s biology for centuries.
While labs raced to map the human genome, almost no one had studied the most ancient form
of nourishment — a mother’s milk.
Today, her discoveries are reshaping how hospitals, pediatricians, and policymakers understand
infant health.
As she often says, “Every drop tells a story between generations.”
Dr. Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk.
She decoded the conversation that built humanity itself.

10/26/2025

10/23/2025

https://llli.org/news/the-safe-sleep-seven/

10/20/2025

Yep.

When a formula company partners with a celebrity, it isn’t about “supporting moms”, it’s about selling product. And when that celebrity has massive influence in communities already targeted by aggressive formula marketing, it becomes even more problematic.

Black mothers in the U.S. face some of the lowest breastfeeding rates, not from lack of desire, but because of systemic barriers. They’re given less workplace flexibility, fewer pumping accommodations, shorter leave, and are exposed to more formula marketing than almost any other group.

So when a brand like Bobbie uses a celebrity mom with huge influence in those same communities to “normalize” formula use, it doesn’t empower mothers, it profits off inequity.

This isn’t about one mom’s choice. It’s about corporate manipulation disguised as relatability. It’s about billion-dollar brands pretending to be on your side while quietly shaping the narrative around “choice” to keep you buying.

And let’s be honest…Bobbie has been doing this since day one. Their entire brand is built on being the “cool,” “nonjudgmental,” “mom-run” formula company. They talk like us, post like us, and use the language of empowerment, but it’s all marketing psychology.

They want to be seen as the formula for moms who care. But behind the branding, they’re just like every other formula company…corporate, profit-driven, and invested in keeping mothers dependent on their product.

Their formula? No different than others.
Their tactics? Just more aesthetic.
And their mission? The same as every other brand, to sell as much as possible, even if that means blurring the line between genuine support and strategic manipulation.

They don’t want to change the system that makes breastfeeding hard, they want to benefit from it.
Because when the system fails mothers, formula companies win.

We should be fighting for paid leave, lactation support, and access to evidence-based information, not cheering on billion-dollar campaigns built on mothers’ exhaustion.

Don’t let a polished brand and pastel marketing fool you. Bobbie isn’t the voice of mothers. They’re the voice of profit, dressed up in “mom-friendly” packaging.