NANA's love for breastfeeding support

05/05/2026

Join us on Friday, May 8th from 9:30 - 11:00 AM for a special Mother’s Day Celebration at our Breastfeeding Moms' Community! 💐

We’ll be celebrating all the amazing mamas with a sweet morning together - featuring a keepsake footprint craft, a build-your-own bouquet station, and some fun Mother’s Day treats to enjoy. 🌟🌸

Come take a moment for yourself, connect with other moms, and soak in the joy of this season of motherhood - whether it’s your very first Mother’s Day or one of many. 🤍

We can’t wait to celebrate you!

05/04/2026

Breastfed babies are not supposed to keep increasing bottle sizes the way formula fed babies often do.

One of the most common reasons breastfeeding moms begin struggling with pumping output, bottle refusal at the breast, fast bottle preference, or unnecessary concern about supply is because someone told them their breastfed baby “should” be taking 6 to 8 oz bottles.

Human milk changes composition as babies grow. The volume breastfed babies consume over 24 hours stays relatively stable after the first few weeks, typically averaging about 24 to 30 oz total per day. That is why many breastfed babies take around 3 to 5 oz per feeding…even months later.

Large bottles can lead to overfeeding. Babies may continue sucking even when they are already full. This can cause increased spit up, discomfort, stretched stomach capacity, and frustration at the breast.

This is why paced bottle feeding matters. Slow flow ni***es matter. Following baby’s hunger and fullness cues matters.

More ounces does not automatically mean better feeding.

Breastmilk is not meant to be treated exactly like formula, and breastfed babies are not “supposed” to steadily climb to giant bottles.

05/01/2026

Breast milk does not sit waiting inside the body. It does not accumulate overnight or build up between feeds ready to be released. What actually happens is far more extraordinary and far more demanding than most people ever realize.

Specialized cells inside the breast work continuously to pull fats, proteins, sugars, antibodies and nutrients directly from the mother's bloodstream and synthesize them into milk in real time. Every single feed. From scratch. The body prioritizes milk production with a biological urgency that places the infant's nutritional needs at the front of the queue, drawing from the mother's own reserves when her intake is insufficient to meet the demand. Calcium pulled from her bones. Iron drawn from her stores. Energy redirected from her own cellular repair and recovery processes toward the continuous manufacturing of nutrition for another human being.

Research on postpartum depletion, a condition increasingly recognized by practitioners working in maternal health, points directly to the sustained nutritional and biological demands of breastfeeding on a body that is simultaneously recovering from pregnancy and birth. Many mothers are not struggling because they are weak or overwhelmed by emotion alone. Their bodies are genuinely running on less than they need to function.

She does not need to be told to push through. She needs to be fed, rested, supported and told the truth about what her body is doing.

05/01/2026