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Pain When Breastfeeding Your Newborn? A Nigerian Doctor Explains What Is Wrong and How to Fix It

Breastfeeding is often described as natural and beautiful. But many mothers quietly go through severe pain while trying to feed their babies. Some cry through feeds. Some begin to fear their baby’s cries because they know the pain is coming again. Others feel guilty for struggling. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. Painful

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I Don’t Think I Have Enough Milk” — What’s Actually True and What to Do About It

I hear versions of these statements constantly from mothers in clinic, in my DMs, in comments on my posts. And I want to address this directly, because a lot of what Nigerian mothers believe about low milk supply is simply not accurate. And those beliefs are causing women to stop breastfeeding before it is necessary.