Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. Happy Holidays! Thanksgiving flew by, and now we are truly in the holiday season! We actually put up our tree and decorations before Thanksgiving because I just felt like we needed the holiday spirit a little early this year. With the holidays comes all of the amazing holiday food and desserts! There are so many amazing dessert recipes that are super healthy, and they taste amazing! I wanted to compile some of the best healthy dessert recipes I’ve found on Pinterest. These recipes will help you keep the pounds away, while also giving you something amazing to indulge in. Uber decadent holiday desserts you’d never know are healthy: Healthy Homemade…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. After breastfeeding four babies, I discovered the best lactation supplement on the market, and it is the only supplement I drink for milk supply. Since drinking this lactation supplement, my milk supply has come in faster (way faster, read this!), and I’ve had so much milk for my fourth baby. Let me tell you, this lactation supplement isn’t just a supplement, but an overall nutritional boost that will nourish your body, help you lose weight, and it tastes amazing! If you’ve been following me on Instagram or reading my blog for a while, you probably already know the drink I’ve been drinking to keep my milk supply up, as I…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. I am about 8 days postpartum now, and I was so happy to see my milk start coming in about 4 days postpartum. Breastfeeding in the first couple of days can feel useless because it doesn’t seem like anything is coming out. The newborn keeps sucking and practising latching, for what appears to be nothing. With each baby, I was always anxiously waiting for my milk to come in. With my fourth baby, it came in by about 4 days postpartum, which was a bit faster than my other three. I thought it would be helpful if I went over my steps in the hospital and at home that was…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. Weight loss right after birth is a big topic here, so I wanted to give an update on my weight loss after baby #4. I hadn’t weighed myself on the day of birth, but I know I was just over 156 lbs. At my last appointment I weighed in just over 156 lbs, and I hadn’t been gaining much weight at the end, so I am guessing I was about there or a bit more at the time of delivery. Knowing my body, even though I haven’t weighed myself yet, I have lost about 12 lbs, which is a lot of the extra baby weight I gained. I am almost…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. I am just over a week postpartum now, with my fourth baby, and I’ve been mentally keeping track of all my breastfeeding tips and tricks this week, which have really helped me with my milk supply and adjusting to breastfeeding again. Your first week with a newborn is a lot of either remembering how to breastfeed, or learning to breastfeed. In order to make breastfeeding as successful as possible, here is what I suggest: Take advantage of a lactation consultant or help: The hospital always offers a lactation consultant, and I highly recommend taking any helpful tips they have! I remember with my second baby, we were working on latching…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. Pumpkin spice is one of the best things about fall and winter. I personally love the new Starbucks pumpkin cold brew drink because it is still warm here in Florida. I also have a baby coming in October, so I will be all over the pumpkin spice lactation recipes! Realistically, you can make any recipe lactation recipe by adding lactation-boosting ingredients. I just add a scoop of Milk Dust to various recipes. Milk Dust bakes well, and adds sweetness, so you can use less sugar or sweetener, and it adds protein! Win-win. Here are some more ingredients you can easily add to recipes, to make them lactation recipes: 1 scoop…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. I’m super excited to put this costume round-up together because I will have a newborn baby this Halloween! The concept that I will be trick-or-treating with a tiny one isn’t new to me. My middle one was just over 4 weeks old on Halloween, and my third was 10 days old. I’m lucky, my fourth baby will be just over 2 weeks old. I’m already getting excited about costume ideas for myself and the new little one, so I wanted to put together what I think are some of the BEST ideas on Pinterest. Princess Peach and Toad (this is a big winner with my boys because they can be…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. Who doesn’t love a warm muffin in the fall and winter?! I put together some amazing, yummy lactation recipes that are all on the healthier side. These muffins will nourish your body and milk supply. Most of the recipes are filled with superfoods like spinach, pumpkin, oatmeal, cocoa powder, blueberries, pecans and apples! My favourite is the Milk Dust spinach ones because they are LOW IN CARBS AND SUGAR, full of protein, and work the best for increasing milk supply. If you love a sweet, quick snack, you will also love the new Milk Dust Bars, which literally taste like dessert, without any of the sugar! And, they have all…
Lactation soups for breastfeeding moms are a great way to keep both you and your baby healthy. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely through postpartum, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. I put together a list of 10 amazing lactation soups that offer lots of nutrients. The key to eating foods to boost your milk supply is to choose foods that offer a lot of nutrients for your body. This is also the main concept of my program, and my 10-day reset plan. By ensuring your body has all the nutrients it needs, it can function optimally, and produce lots of milk! Make sure to grab my free, 10-day breastfeeding diet plan, and make some of these healthy soup recipes to keep that supply up! You will also want to read: Crock Pot Breastfeeding Recipes For Healthy Milk Supply +…
Keeping both you and your baby healthy while breastfeeding requires a proper meal plan and some guidance. If you would like a step-by-step program to help you lose weight safely, check out all our courses, programs, challenges, & recipe book. New mommies need lots of gear for breastfeeding, healing, surviving, keeping the baby happy and more. New mommies also don’t need any excess gear and trinkets that aren’t totally useful. This is where picking the right gifts is super important. You want to give them something that will make their lives easier. Simple as that. This gift list is full of gifts that will actually be USEFUL to mama while breastfeeding and caring for a new baby, while also making their lives much easier. A new mommy gift doesn’t get much better than that! Let’s get into the top 11 gifts for new and breastfeeding mommies: Soothe Shirt: These are…