Done Naturally Lactation Co.

03/19/2026

DN family, how long have I been saying this very same things a colleague is saying?! 🥰

LALactation

03/19/2026

Done Naturally Family, how long have I been saying this?!!!! Great colleague agrees (of course!) 💕

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVwytzhgaJB/?igsh=NGh1bjV1OWJ2NXBl

03/19/2026

Well done ✅

All of us families appreciate it so much!!!

03/15/2026

Emily Crady Shepard writes an article and her intro:

“The newborn witching hour can make any mom feel like she's doing something wrong. But often, nothing is wrong at all.
(Emily shares how) weeks of evening fussiness led to a powerful reminder in the article from a lactation expert (ME!) Summer Jade Friedmann Done Naturally Lactation Co.

“Babies don't need fixing.
They need connection.
Skin-to-skin.
Babywearing.
Feeding on demand.
Sometimes the answer is simply showing up, again and again.”

Read the full story on the Bonsie Bonding blog ⬇️

A mom of three shares her experience with the newborn witching hour and the expert breastfeeding support from IBCLC Summer Friedmann of Done Naturally that helped her find peace and confidence.

03/09/2026

Just like I thought. Not a great idea. From Dr Thomas Hale’s Infant Risk Center at Texas Tech. He’s our medication guru and author of our favorite reference book, Medications & Mother’s Milk - comes out new every 2 years!

Link here for my YouTube about GLP1s I recorded back in April 2023. https://youtu.be/kRzCgX1zj20?si=0hOtKb6MVfXXwwys

InfantRisk Center

📣 New Article Alert!
Curious about tirzepatide and breastfeeding? 🤱 Our latest article breaks down what the current evidence says about tirzepatide transfer into breast milk.

👉 Read more here: https://infantrisk.com/content/what-breastfeeding-moms-need-know-about-tirzepatide

Whether you’re considering tirzepatide for diabetes, weight management, or metabolic health while breastfeeding, get evidence-based guidance to help you make informed decisions with your healthcare provider. 💛

03/04/2026

Happy IBCLC Day!

It all started with my first in 2002, when I received horrible care from an IBCLC in the NICU. That can’t be the kind of support women have available, I thought. I went on to have a wonderful breastfeeding experience with my son despite her neglect and negligence.

The fire had been ignited in me and I pivoted my entire career. I had to be a part of the solution for women. I couldn’t ignore it.

Four years later I became an accredited La Leche League Leader, providing phone/email support and leading support groups for families in the community.

Four more years later I passed my board exam for IBCLC and started in the hospitals providing care in Labor/Delivery, Postpartum and NICU units.

Ten years later I started a YouTube channel and left the hospital. Focusing on my private practice, I began seeing families in their homes and doing video calls all over the world! (most recently Bulgaria!)

I have been so lucky to be surrounded by really incredible healthcare professionals who have shaped me into the IBCLC I am today.

I treasure all of my families. You trust me with your precious hearts, time and babes. Working with you brings me the most joy. I know some of you have seen those tears well up in my eyes. 🥹

I can’t say it enough … how fun it is to see you grow as a family; grow as a mother and father, have more children, bigger kids, teens and even some college bound. It’s. The. Best.

These gorgeous faces are only a few of the many beautiful faces I’ve worked with over the last 20 years.

Thank you for bringing me into your lives and thank you to that awful IBCLC… she sparked a really good thing. 😘

03/02/2026

This is my Luna Raye. Just turned 21. My only blue eyed son. My only blonde. So far the tallest of my 3 princes, closer to 6’5 than 6’4. My first baby born underwater with a swift 3 hour + 25 minute labor. Nursed through my pregnancy with my next son, and tandem with his baby bro, weaning around 3.25 years.

He’ll be a Senior at KU in the Fall, a leader in his fraternity and honor roll recipient. His first accounting internship starts this Summer that he nailed with his major proactive & bold skills. This boy that thinks ahead and has carefully curated plans years out.

Where did my little tow-head, chubby cheeked, climbing trees boy go? He’s still in there. 🥹 Just hidden in that grown man body and mind.

It’s a surreal thing, this phase of motherhood I’m in. Working with you mamas, your stories, journeys and tribulations are still so similar and freshly in my mind as my own … but how can it have been that long ago? How is my oldest, Tevan, almost the age (24), the same age I was when I was pregnant for the first time?!!!

Happy Birthday Moon. 🌙 You are a bright light in this world and everyone you touch sparkles. I love you Moon Beam.

02/12/2026

Celebrating these warriors!

They often suffer in silence.

They may feel quietly uncomfortable as they see others posting about their successes, having reached or even surpassed their goals.

They have fought thru tears, joys and challenges and the very layered emotions that come along.
They may have made the decision to stop, it may have been a series of events leading to that decision or something in their life (medical, social or emotional) triggered the process of ending.

These women need to be celebrated, honored and heard!

They deserve a platform to share their story. So here I am giving them a HUGE HUG and letting them know I hear you, I support you, honor you and celebrate you and your journey.

You have a very special corner in my heart.

Share your story or celebrate yourself with a comment below!

02/11/2026

Do you hear:

Don’t do.
Ooooh avoid.
You have to.
You can’t.
Fu***ng ridiculous!

You don’t have to be a different person or live a different lifestyle to successfully breastfeed. (pump)

Anyone and everyone can live their life as they always have while breastfeeding and not feel pressured to do things differently than you always have.

Worldwide everyone lives their life differently.
Why would it make sense to live in a box or be restrained by a certain way of life in order to breastfeed?

This ridiculous mindset is yet another barrier to breastfeeding.

Common myths I hear:

You can’t exercise or it will lower your supply
You have to drink TONS of water
You can’t drink alcohol.
You have to eat so healthy.
You can’t smoke ci******es. (does that one surprise you?)
You can never leave your baby.
You have to co-sleep, bed-share.
You can’t get a tattoo.
You have to drink cow milk (omg why is this one still around)
You have to eat so much food.
You can’t eat spicy food.
You can’t eat gaseous food.
You’ll can’t lose weight.
You can’t use facial and eye creams.
You can’t get botox.
Your medication isn’t compatible.
You can’t go tanning.
You can’t sit in a hot tub. (Yup heard that one)
You can’t drink caffeine.
Your breasts will never be the same. (newsflash that’s true whether you bf or not. Hello gravity and age)

The list is too long and it’s all BULL S**T.
My take home message for families is: Just be you. Do you. Don’t change a thing. Don’t be “a breastfeeding mom”. Be a mom who just so happens to be breastfeeding. Be your normal you.

02/09/2026

This is my all time favorite fact!

Human milk is ALIVE!

It is a power-packed liquid!
It is designed to BUILD an immune system and be
THE MOST OPTIMAL FIGHTING
immune system.

As I’m always heard saying, “every drop counts”.

There isn’t an amount that is too small. Every Drop makes a difference.

Human milk is literally like a farm-to-table seasonally, fresh restaurant. The make-up of human milk is constantly changing in response to the surroundings and the baby’s age.

Whatever seasonal bugs are flittering around, the milk has specific fighters to go to war with them, so to speak.

The new growth baby is doing needs new milk!
That means what’s inside the milk changes! YUP!
The protein, the sugar, the fat, all the ingredients shift to give the baby the PERFECT food for that moment.

Lemme also say, that does NOT mean that milk from a different time (or donor milk) is not appropriate. Human milk from any time is always appropriate. It’s just more specific at that actual time.

No other food, or formula, evolves to meet new growth or illness needs.

So don’t overthink this folks and please don’t worry that milk from early postpartum won’t give the baby what they need at 6 months.

BUT during illness, the best milk you can give your baby is the current milk you are making.

Remember we want those specifically trained warriors fighting.

So...my point... Every (DAMN) Drop Counts!
Give your baby all the fighting power you can and be PROUD of every drop.

end note:

*Please let me be clear, this is NOT a formula bashing post. This is me sharing factual information. Formula has its place and many families I work with use formula and my job is to help them reach their feeding goals.

02/06/2026

This is so very basic folks!

This needs to be on repeat and keep looping because people still don’t get it.

This is science, biology, physiological and not arguable.

Milk is made because we take it out.

Plain and simple.

Products that a company’s marketing department wants you buy so they make $$$ ... Dont trust them. They gain from your vulnerable state and how important milk making is to you.

STOP funding them.

Our breasts need frequent stimulation which removes milk in order to continue to make the milk.

Do we need Amazon delivery of a capsule, a cookie, a specially made drink, or whatever the F?

NO. Full stop.

How long have people been breastfeeding?
{Ahem since the beginning of time}

And suddenly NOW people need products in order to make milk or to make more milk?

What did folks do before people “sold $hit”?!
I’ll tell you what they did.

They trusted the process. They were surrounded by other women who supported them and knew. They kept nursing. Frequently. If pumping, they pumped. Frequently.

They did what we know works.

Save your precious $ and just do the thing your breasts need. Get the milk out and they will make more for you. Milk Removal = More Milk

If you think you have an under supply, before you do anything, call and meet with an IBCLC.

02/05/2026

It’s not just about being interested in food and watching what you do or reaching for your food.
That does NOT mean their digestive system is ready for solids at all.

Those are EARLY signs but still means WAIT.

What can you do until all the readiness signs are there?

Keep them involved at the table. Give them something to play with that relates to food.
Utensils, measuring cups, spatulas etc

The American Academy of Pediatrics and The World Health Organization and The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine ALL agree. No foods before 6 months.

Babies need the simple digestion of only human milk to keep them safest for the first 6 months.

Then as they are more ready we see these 5 things developing!

• I can sit up myself. So it’s safe to feed me food.

• have mastered the pincer grasp so I can pick up my food and feed myself. Like all other mammals, the young do not eat food until they can manipulate it themselves.

• Often I have a tooth too!

• I can crawl!

Human milk is the primary source of nutrition for the ENTIRE first year of life.

Foods are fun! They can explore in a low pressure setting. They learn how to get food down without sucking. New textures!

No need to worry how much they eat or don’t.
Just offer nutritious foods and let them be in charge of what they take in. Eventually they’ll be massive food eaters and your grocery bill will go UP!

KEEP breastfeeding and pumping just as often too, don’t change that up!

Remember foods are not a replacement for human milk. They are complementary.