The Lactation Club For Moms

12/26/2025

Happy Kwanzaa to all who celebrate.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from the LC’s at Summerville Hospital 🎄🎄🎄🎄

There are a lot of things money can buy this season.
Big gifts. Fancy wrapping. Things that sparkle for a moment.

And then there is what you give.

Something no store sells.
Something no price tag can touch.

You are providing the one thing that cannot be bought, borrowed, or replaced.
Milk made specifically for your baby. Not a generic version. Not a close second. The exact thing their body asked for.

Your breast milk changes with their needs.
It adapts when they are sick.
It comforts when the world feels too loud.
It nourishes in a way nothing else can replicate.

There is no competition here.
No comparison.
No upgrade.

This is not about being better than anyone else.
It is about recognizing the quiet power of what your body is doing.

While the world rushes for more, you are already giving the most valuable thing there is.

And your baby knows it. 🤱✨

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas Eve🎄🎄🎄

Happy holidays! 🎁🎅

12/22/2025

We are having group today in 256 from
11-1.

12/15/2025

“Baby It’s Cold Outside” The heats on rm 256 for support group today! Met Shannon from 11-1.🎄🎄🎄

12/08/2025

Happy Monday. We will meet today in rm 255 for group! See you there.

12/04/2025

If you needed the reminder:
You don’t need a “perfect” diet to make perfect milk.
Your body knows exactly what to do. 💛

12/03/2025

Amazing!

When your baby gets sick your body responds in a way that is honestly incredible. Within hours the composition of your milk shifts to match what your baby is fighting. Antibodies begin to rise, especially IgA, which coats the baby’s gut and helps block the exact germs causing their symptoms. White blood cells multiply and flood your milk, creating a concentrated immune response designed to attack viruses and bacteria directly.

Human milk oligosaccharides also change. These special sugars support healthy gut bacteria and make it harder for harmful microbes to attach and spread. Your milk increases anti inflammatory factors too, which help soothe your baby’s tissues and reduce irritation while they recover.

This is why sick day milk often looks thicker or more yellow. The immune content is higher. The protection is stronger. The milk becomes more like colostrum again, rich and purposeful, made specifically for the illness in front of your baby that day.

Your body is not guessing. It is responding with accuracy and intention. Sick milk is real and it is powerful. 💛🤱🏼

12/03/2025

There are many reasons why your baby would wake more often to feed at night. Regardless of what you find online or from well meaning family and friends, there is no specific, developmental weight or age when a child no longer needs to feed overnight. There is no scientific or medical standard or recommendations for when a baby no longer needs nutrition at night. Society also says babies shouldn’t need tended to at night time and that we should teach them, often from a ridiculously early age, not to need us at night. In reality, we are not in control and neither are our babies. We’re in a mutual relationship where we are learning what our babies need and when they need it. Reasons why babies wake to feed over night:
💡Growth spurts
💡Developmental leap
💡You were gone at work and they missed you or want breast milk straight from the breast
💡Teething
💡They were distracted during the day because the world is an amazing place to learn in and they’re making up for calories over night
💡Sickness
💡They had a bad dream or are scared without you
💡Because they’re human

Per current research, 78% of babies wake up at least once a night and 60% of waking to feed until 1 year (Brown, 2015). That’s NORMAL. Between 12-18 months your toddler may still occasionally wake to feed. Or they may just need an adult to help them transition back to sleep. It’s not until 24 months that the human baby has matured enough to not consistently need an adult to help them transition back to sleep over night and should be getting all of their calories during day time hours.

12/01/2025

Join Shannon today from 11-1 in rm 256! See you then.🎄🎄

11/30/2025

Love this!🌸

I swear the most common question parents ask me is:
“Why does my baby nap for two hours on me… but only 20 minutes in the bassinet?”

Oh my nap trapped friend, you’re not imagining it. Your baby isn’t broken. And you’re definitely not doing anything wrong.

When your little one falls asleep on your chest, everything stays exactly the same the whole time they snooze. Your warmth, your scent, the rise and fall of your breathing, the gentle holding. So when they hit that first light-sleep transition around the 20–30 minute mark, their brain basically says, “Yep, still safe, still cozy,” and they just melt into the next sleep cycle. That’s why those contact naps feel like magic.

But when they fall asleep on you… and wake up somewhere else? Totally different story.

Imagine falling asleep in your bed and waking up on the kitchen floor. You’d sit up real fast too. Babies do the same. They wake confused, looking for the thing (the person) that helped them fall asleep in the first place. Their little bodies don’t register the bassinet as the place they drifted off, so it doesn’t automatically feel safe enough to resettle.

And here’s the truth we don’t talk about enough:
Babies sleep better on humans because humans regulate their nervous systems.
Your heartbeat steadies theirs. Your breathing helps pace theirs. Your warmth and presence lower their stress hormones. You are literally their external regulator.

As they grow, their own nervous system matures. Their heart rate, breathing, and stress responses start to regulate from within. That’s when naps begin to lengthen away from your body. It’s not a training issue. It’s a development thing.

So if your baby naps better on you right now, it’s because their body knows exactly where safety is. And as they mature, sleep will naturally become easier in other places too.

11/28/2025

All of the Lactation Ladies at HCA Summerville Hospital hope your Thanksgiving with your little one was fabulous with lots of precious memories made!