Durham Lactation

I am currently on maternity leave and am not seeing patients. If you would like to have your baby assessed for a tongue or lip tie, you can find me at Holman Family Dental Care- Shaina Holman, DDS, PhD, otherwise, check out my videos for help meeting your infant feeding goals.
photo credit: Heart in Hands Documentary Photography & Doula Services

Great article about my favorite nerdy topic: car seat safety! Where did you learn to properly use your car seats?

You May Be Using Your Child’s Car Seat Incorrectly Many people misuse their car seats so they are not getting the protection they expect.

Join me tonight at 8pm EST for a live Q&A with my essential registry items for breastfeeding and all your questions.

Set Yourself Up for Successful Feeding - Instagram Live Q & A - Gugu Guru Blog We're doing a Set Yourself Up for Successful Feeding Instagram live Q& A with our resident IBCLC, Victoria Facelli and you're invited!

Ayden Cox at Harvest Moon Bodywork and Birth Services has limited spots in a free class on infant massage for parents: grab them while they are available and look forward to more classes coming from her soon.

Email me at [email protected] to find out more! Open to all the babies 6 weeks-6 months.

Can we talk about how great this card is? I love for all their family building cards. Celebrate you meeting your goals!

So many parents are told to "pump and dump" or wean when they need surgery. This is a great graphic reminder that most anesthesia is safe for breastfeeding.

Share this graphic far and wide!!

New blog post today about feeling like enough when how you feed your baby isn't going as you planned.
“You are enough. You are so enough.
It is unbelievable how enough you are,” Sierra Boggess

"We hear it over and over again: “I tried to breastfeed but…” We hear parents feeling like they have to excuse themselves for doing what was best for themselves or their babies. We hear them justify to someone why they aren’t enough.

But you are enough, no matter how your baby is fed.

I want you to write it on your mirror. I want you to put it on a big post-it on your pumping bag. I want you to write it on the top of the formula can. I want you to say it to yourself at every late night wake up."

This week on the blog, we're sharing more about our goals-based infant feeding practice, and how, Dear Parents, you are SO enough.

Read more: http://www.emeralddoulas.com/blog/youareenough

it's that time of year: happy snow day

Keeping Snowpocolypse from becoming Milkpocalypse: How to protect your freezer stash in a power outage ... Oh, North Carolina. That little snow flake emoji showed up in our forecast this week, just days after enjoying the sunshine through open windows. While the Emerald Birth and Postpartum Doulas are gassing up their 4x4 Jeeps (oh yea, the Emerald Doulas have a snow plan, y’all) ... our IBCLC and Infa...

I have 2 cardinal rules for learning to nurse your baby. Tune in at 11 am EST this Friday for a facebook live all about Rule #1: Treat yourself like royalty. Everyone Comes to you.

"What a good problem to have." and other lies about over supply. Check out my guest blog at sleepless mom.

Dealing With Breast Milk Oversupply There are two things I want moms with breast milk oversupply to know: you are not complaining about nothing. There are things you can do to help.