Oasis Lactation Services

04/28/2026

04/26/2026

Wear the baby, carry the baby, rotate the baby

04/21/2026

We are mammals. We have body hair. Apparently the bag hooks are anatomically correct 🤷🏼‍♀️

04/16/2026

mom bunny knew we wouldn’t try to bottle feed her babies so, naturally as a nesting mammal (not a carrier mammal like us), she left them by our clinic!🐰

04/09/2026

A recent client said this to me, and I thought it was pretty poignant.

There’s what’s optimal, and there’s what’s accessible and in a perfect world they meet. Unfortunately, earth in 2026 is not that world for everyone.

The truth is that we don’t all have access to the same options. Even beyond whether or not we can EBF, some of us don’t have realistic access to the measures it takes to maximize milk production, and we have to have more honest conversations about that.

When the focus of “what to do” with low supply is squarely centered on maximizing production and that’s framed as the most valuable measure of success, we’re setting huge volumes of families up to feel like a failure if/when they can’t access what facilitating that entails.

Especially when you have low supply due to underlying maternal factors, it entails doing more than the typical EBF dyad to maximize milk production. It’s hard.

Some of us have the ability to pull out all the stops. We can nurse with a supplementer and sit around in a rocking chair feeding every 90 minutes around the clock. Some of us DO NOT have that option. It doesn’t mean one of us is doing it better or more correctly.

Your biggest success in breastfeeding doesn’t have to be defined by how much you increased your milk supply. It’s okay if your “as much as I can” isn’t as much as someone else can. No two lives are the same. We all have different supports and different abilities.

Please just remember that breastfeeding success doesn’t have to look one way.

For me, it’s the growth that happens as we work to balance feeding practices with what feels most positive and sustainable. It’s how those feeding practices foster deeper connection with our babies. It’s how they impact our growing sense of identity and confidence as a provider.

It can mean different things to different people, and success means discovering your own way within the parameters of what’s accessible to you.

There’s the biological norm, then there’s being a human in 2026. Please be gentle with yourself ❤️

04/08/2026

Early 1900s breastfeeding education. This is why Certified Breastfeeding Counselors, lactation educators, and IBCLCs are vital. We're still undoing misinformation.

🤯 so... they had some information correct. Yes, most are able to feed. But... rigid schedule? Not so ideal.

Breastfeeding education wasn't simply encouraging more breastfeeding, it was potentially lifesaving.

In 1915, across the US, around 10% of babies died before their first birthday. According to the CDC, some cities had 30% infant mortality. Public health campaigns focusing on infant feeding, sleep safety, hygiene, etc., worked alongside advancements in medical care and we saw numbers drop. Lack of access to clean water, homemade formulas lacking nutrition, etc., meant breastfeeding was vital in reducing mortality.

But where they failed to truly increase breastfeeding was through rigid feeding schedules like used in formula feeding.

Breastfeeding still continues to be protective against infant mortality.

Did you receive outdated breastfeeding information?