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5 Fascinating Facts About Breast Milk | Kindred Bravely

5 Fascinating Facts About Breast Milk

Did you know your breast milk not only changes from month to month but also throughout the day? Learn more fascinating facts about breast milk and its many benefits, including all about...

5 Fascinating Facts About Breast Milk

Did you know your breast milk not only changes from month to month but also throughout the day? Learn more fascinating facts about breast milk and its many benefits, including all about breast milk's flavor, nutrients, immune factors, and more!

How to Prevent and Treat Clogged Milk Ducts and Mastitis | Kindred Bravely

How to Prevent and Treat Clogged Milk Ducts and Mastitis

Guest post by Shantel Harlin, BSN, RN, IBCLC

Many women experience clogged milk ducts at some point in their breastfeeding journey. If addressed quickly, a clogged duct can be resolved relatively easily without medical intervention. However, some clogged...

How to Prevent and Treat Clogged Milk Ducts and Mastitis

Guest post by Shantel Harlin, BSN, RN, IBCLC

Many women experience clogged milk ducts at some point in their breastfeeding journey. If addressed quickly, a clogged duct can be resolved relatively easily without medical intervention. However, some clogged ducts can turn into mastitis. In this piece, I’ll explain...

Must-Know Tips for Breastfeeding a Sick Baby | Kindred Bravely

Must-Know Tips for Breastfeeding a Sick Baby

Breast milk provides excellent overall protection from sickness, but many babies still come down with some sort of cold, virus, or infection within the first year of life. During an...

Must-Know Tips for Breastfeeding a Sick Baby

Breast milk provides excellent overall protection from sickness, but many babies still come down with some sort of cold, virus, or infection within the first year of life. During an illness, it’s possible your child will be fussier at the...

What to Wear to a Wedding When You’re Pregnant or Nursing | Kindred Bravely

What to Wear to a Wedding When You’re Pregnant or Nursing

Wedding bells ring all year long for family, friends, and colleagues, so wedding invitations can arrive at any time—even when you’re pregnant or nursing. Special occasions allow you to reconnect...

What to Wear to a Wedding When You’re Pregnant or Nursing

Wedding bells ring all year long for family, friends, and colleagues, so wedding invitations can arrive at any time—even when you’re pregnant or nursing. Special occasions allow you to reconnect with loved ones and make memories, but it may feel...

Best Nursing Tops for Breastfeeding in 2023 | Kindred Bravely

Best Nursing Tops for Breastfeeding in 2023

When you’re on the hunt for stylish nursing tops or nursing T-shirts that you can wear every day, it’s important to look for features and designs that make nursing access quick...

Best Nursing Tops for Breastfeeding in 2023

When you’re on the hunt for stylish nursing tops or nursing T-shirts that you can wear every day, it’s important to look for features and designs that make nursing access quick and easy when it’s feeding time.

Best Nursing Sleep Bras 2023 | Kindred Bravely

Best Nursing Sleep Bras 2023

Caring for a bundle of joy is an experience like no other. It’s also more work than most everyone expects. Round-the-clock, on-demand nursing is great for your little one. But...

Best Nursing Sleep Bras 2023

Caring for a bundle of joy is an experience like no other. It’s also more work than most everyone expects. Round-the-clock, on-demand nursing is great for your little one. But just as with diaper changes, you get called on at...

Cuddle Weather Capsule Collection for Nursing Moms | Kindred Bravely

Cuddle Weather Capsule Collection for Nursing Moms

Guest post by Stephanie Gosnell

When I was pregnant with my first son, nursing clothes weren’t even on my radar. Now, more than 17 months into breastfeeding my second son, nursing-friendly clothing has become my...

Cuddle Weather Capsule Collection for Nursing Moms

Guest post by Stephanie Gosnell

When I was pregnant with my first son, nursing clothes weren’t even on my radar. Now, more than 17 months into breastfeeding my second son, nursing-friendly clothing has become my breast friend (pun intended)! With the weather getting colder, I...

Nursing-Friendly Postpartum Loungewear | Kindred Bravely

Nursing-Friendly Postpartum Loungewear

My postpartum recovery experience was tough. I felt useless lying in bed for the first few weeks, which is hard for an achiever, type-A personality like me. Don’t get me...

Nursing-Friendly Postpartum Loungewear

My postpartum recovery experience was tough. I felt useless lying in bed for the first few weeks, which is hard for an achiever, type-A personality like me. Don’t get me wrong: I was in newborn bliss hanging out with my...

From Medicine to Motherhood: A Black Doctor's Breastfeeding Experience | Kindred Bravely

From Medicine to Motherhood: A Black Doctor's Breastfeeding Experience

Guest post by Dr. Kameelah Gateau

My breastfeeding journey started 30 years before I became a mother when my mother, a Registered Nurse and lactation specialist, would tirelessly alternate breastfeeding my younger twin brothers. As a toddler,...

From Medicine to Motherhood: A Black Doctor's Breastfeeding Experience

Guest post by Dr. Kameelah Gateau

My breastfeeding journey started 30 years before I became a mother when my mother, a Registered Nurse and lactation specialist, would tirelessly alternate breastfeeding my younger twin brothers. As a toddler, I had no idea the historical context and significance this...

Black Breastfeeding Week | Kindred Bravely

Black Breastfeeding Week

Guest post by Ashley Green

In 2011, the United States Breastfeeding Committee established August as National Breastfeeding Month to celebrate breastfeeding and address its unique challenges. In 2014, Kimberly Seals Allers, Kiddada Green, and Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka founded...

Black Breastfeeding Week

Guest post by Ashley Green

In 2011, the United States Breastfeeding Committee established August as National Breastfeeding Month to celebrate breastfeeding and address its unique challenges. In 2014, Kimberly Seals Allers, Kiddada Green, and Anayah Sangodele-Ayoka founded Black Breastfeeding Week, which takes place during the last week...

My Weekend Getaway Packing List <br> for the Nursing Mom | Kindred Bravely

My Weekend Getaway Packing List for the Nursing Mom

Guest post by Stephanie Gosnell

The past year has been interesting, to say the least, and if you’re like me, you need a vacation! What better place to rest and relax than the beach? As a...

My Weekend Getaway Packing List for the Nursing Mom

Guest post by Stephanie Gosnell

The past year has been interesting, to say the least, and if you’re like me, you need a vacation! What better place to rest and relax than the beach? As a breastfeeding mom, I have a lot to prepare for a...

Nursing Bras - Your Ultimate Guide 2023 | Kindred Bravely

Nursing Bras - Your Ultimate Guide 2023

Guest post by Jessie Wiener

Although it may be tempting to make do with what you already have, a comfortable nursing bra works with your body, not against it, helping you to enjoy nursing your...

Nursing Bras - Your Ultimate Guide 2023

Guest post by Jessie Wiener

Although it may be tempting to make do with what you already have, a comfortable nursing bra works with your body, not against it, helping you to enjoy nursing your baby even more. Nursing Bras - Your Ultimate Guide will tell you...