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I’ve seen a patient 20 times in the last 15 months through insurance covered visits and it has brought me so much joy to support this family for so long in this way ❤️

We can be this support system for you too! We now accept Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare, Cigna, Aetna, MGB, and Harvard Pilgrim.

Ask both your employer (or HR department) and your spouse’s if they “offer any employer sponsored benefits or stipends for postpartum support or doula services”.

These are usually offered through third parties like Carrot, Maven, or Progyny. And can provide significant financial assistance for essential birth and postpartum support for your family.

Estate planning isn’t just paperwork.

It’s parenting.

Just like using a car seat, or choosing a pediatrician, it’s about protecting your child and planning ahead.

Estate planning protects your family if the unexpected happens.

Not because you expect something to go wrong…but because you’re a parent, and that’s what parents do.

Ready to check this one off your list? Book a free info call with through the link in our bio.

I bet you never imagined how often you would be looking at p**p, thinking about p**p, or talking about p**p… until now, with your newborn 😅

Your Ask a Nurse question:
“My exclusively breastfed 8 week old has really watery p**p… is that normal?”

The answer is usually yes 🤍

Breastfed baby p**p is often
💛 Yellow or mustard colored
💩 Loose, watery, or seedy
✨ Sometimes explosive
😅 Sometimes after every feed

We often see looser and more frequent p**ps early on because breastmilk is incredibly easy to digest and, in fact, acts as a natural laxative.

Add in a little formula and p**ps may shift in color or consistency too. Regardless of how your baby is fed, yellows, greens, and browns are all generally part of the normal p**p rainbow 🌈

So what isn’t normal?

🚩 Blood in the stool
🚩 White, pale, chalky, or clay-colored p**p
🚩 Newborn p**p that goes back to black after those early meconium stools
🚩 Copious mucus PLUS fussiness, poor feeding, or poor weight gain
🚩 Signs of dehydration like fewer wet diapers

And while we’re here… frequency can vary wildly too 😅

Some breastfed newborns p**p after every feed 💥
Others may go several days without p**ping once they’re a little older.

It’s wild because some babies p**p 4–5 times a day while others p**p every 4–5 days… and both can be normal.

This is why we always say when it comes to newborn p**p, we look at the whole baby 👶

Ask yourself… is your baby:
✨ Eating well
✨ Peeing regularly
✨ Gaining weight
✨ Overall content after feeds

When it comes to newborn p**p, normal is a pretty wide range 😅

And if you’re ever unsure, you can always ask us on our Ask a Nurse board or message your pediatrician 🤍

FREE WORKSHOP on Body Image in Pregnancy and Postpartum this Friday, May 22nd at 1pm EST with our friends and Registered Dieticians from . Link in bio to register.

What helped you most with your postpartum bod? Here are 4️⃣ (plus one bonus) tips:

👗Buy new clothes! Your clothes are supposed to fit you, you aren’t supposed to fit in your clothes. I don’t know when it became acceptable to only purchase new clothes for your changing pregnant body and not your changing postpartum body, but im not here for that s**t! Buy clothes that make you feel good in your body!

💅🏻 In place of or in additional to recognizing the things you don’t like about your body, try and find the things you do like about your body or at least feel neutral about. For me, that’s always my hair (well before I lost it all PP 🤪), my nails, and my lips!

🪞Try and replace the negative self talk with something more positive but believable. It’s not feasible to replace “I hate my body” with “I love my body” but it might be feasible to replace it with “I appreciate what my body has given me”

👯‍♀️ Avoid surrounding yourself with people IRL or online that don’t make you feel good about your body and make you feel like you should look a certain way. That may mean setting boundaries or having difficult conversations with a tricky family member or friend. That may mean unfollowing certain accounts on social media or setting filters to avoid certain content. Then seek out people who have a more positive or realistic view of their body’s postpartum, or follow accounts of people who have the same body type as you.

And if all else fails, ask yourself and your loved ones to name the top 5 things you love most about yourself and they love most about you, and I guarantee you not one of those 5 things will be anything related to your appearance ❤️

Sleep > pumping …. If you’re baby is sleeping (IMO).