Lactation Works With Pauleen

28/09/2025

Mamma's creamy expressed breastmilk, dad is doing a great job! What a cutie pie baby!

28/09/2025

Choline an important ingredient found in breastmilk.
Lactation Consultants of Southern- & Africa

Your milk contains choline. This nutrient is essential to brain function including thinking and memory, to our muscles moving well, and to mood regulation.

We also need choline to form the membranes around our cells.

Our bodies do make choline, but not in sufficient quantities. Some foods contain it, such as eggs, but during our babies’ first 6 months of life and until solids are introduced, our milk provides the choline necessary to their development.

Nice one Mama.

Human milk, tailor-made for tiny humans.

28/09/2025

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.

27/09/2025

I almost didn’t post this photo.

Not because I don’t love it, but because it isn’t the “perfect newborn” picture the internet prepares you for.

No filters.
No bows.
No smooth, airbrushed cheeks.

Just real life.
Soft morning light.
A sleepy little face.
And those tiny bumps that had me Googling at 3 a.m. like a brand-new mom who still forgets to breathe sometimes.

I used to think newborn photos were supposed to look a certain way—flawless skin, closed eyes, no milk dribbles, no little scratches from paper-thin nails.

But this?
This is what it really looks like to be brand new to the world.

A wrinkled onesie.
A fist tucked against their chest.
A face that’s still figuring out how to be here.
Tiny noises that sound like secrets.

I stared at this picture and felt that old pull to crop, to smooth, to “fix.”

And then I remembered what these little bumps actually are:
Proof that life just arrived.
Proof that we’re in the thick of the newborn days—drowsy feedings, warm sheets, skin-to-skin, and time moving both too slow and too fast at once.

One day, their skin will clear.
One day, I’ll sleep through the night again.
One day, I’ll scroll back to this exact photo and ache for the version of me who didn’t know how quickly it would all change.

So I’m posting the picture I almost deleted.
The one that shows the truth.

The beauty is here, exactly as it is.
In the furrowed brow.
In the barely-open mouth.
In the way their whole body relaxes when they hear my voice.

I don’t want to remember a polished version of these days.
I want to remember the real ones.

The little bumps.
The little breaths.
The little miracle who made me a softer, slower, braver kind of person overnight.

Welcome to the world, baby.
You’re perfect—exactly like this. ❤️

26/09/2025

Lovely kiddie songs. Thankyou

26/09/2025

26/09/2025

Comfort, calories, closeness, connection, convenience.

When most people picture breastfeeding, they imagine a tiny newborn: curled up, fragile, and brand new to the world. What they don’t often picture is this, an older child, seeking the same comfort, the same connection, the same reassurance that only their mother can give.

Breastfeeding doesn’t suddenly lose its value once the baby turns one. Or two. Or three. It shifts. It changes. It becomes less about calories and more about comfort. Less about survival and more about security. It’s a safe place, a reset button, a way to slow down in a world that moves far too fast for little hearts.

For some babies, breastfeeding ends at one. For others, the journey continues into toddlerhood and beyond. Neither path is “better.” Both are normal. Both are valid. Both are beautiful.

What matters most is the bond being built in these quiet moments, the way a child knows deep down that they are safe, loved, and wanted. That is the true gift of breastfeeding. It isn’t just milk. It’s comfort. It’s connection. It’s love, made visible. 💕

So if you’ve ever been asked “You’re still nursing?”, remember this: there is no expiration date on comfort, on closeness, or on love.

25/09/2025

24/09/2025

Beautiful baby sitying upright, tummy to mummy, legs drawn up in a froggy position. Mum is comfortably laid back, with her shoulders back and her pelvis forward. Baby is happily feeding at the breasturant, using a ni**le shield with good effect. Note mum supports baby around his collar below baby's ears, her hand is resting on baby's back, this keeps baby's head extended slightly and it helps to achieve a deeper latch.