Lactation Works With Pauleen

10/02/2026

09/02/2026

Top hands-free breast pumps in South Africa include the locally designed Gem Wearable Breast Pump, Imani, and popular imports like Momcozy. Elvis, Willow, Medela hands free pumps. (via Amazon/Takealot). These pumps offer portability, discreetness inside the bra, and no wires or tubes, providing convenience for multitasking mothers. Key features to look for are hospital-grade suction and multiple settings.

Wearable breast pumps are convenient but can sometimes reduce milk flow and supply. This is often due to issues like poor fit, weak suction, blocked parts, user mistakes, or even physical and mental factors.

08/02/2026

Sleepy babe at The Winter Olympics 2026

08/02/2026

Practicing gentle, responsive parenting with prompt consistent care, and matching parenting intervention to baby's need for calories, comfort, and closeness, is appropriate.
Pauleen Nelson IBCLC, Midwife

08/02/2026

Instinctive, responsive, attachment parenting, will ensure baby has optimal brain development, security. Co sleeping also ensures more sleep for mother and baby.
Pauleen Nelson IBCLC, Midwife

05/02/2026

Sometimes though, a mother is not able to provide the breastmilk her baby needs – and what alternative is used matters.

05/02/2026

04/02/2026

Does the temperature of expressed milk fed to a newborn matter? Can it be warm, room temperpature, or even cold? All are okay, according to this 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis. it found milk’s temperature had no clinically significant effect on babies’ body temperature, heart rate, or oxygen level. Want to know more? Free download here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/15568253251413231

28/01/2026

27/01/2026

Swimming is such a great form of excercise. Nika Diwa enjoying a cool plunge at 39 weeks pregnant.

20/01/2026

Mamma duck's soft, safe, warm back provides a perfect downy bed for her two sleeping chicks. So sweet!

17/01/2026

This action song is a favorite, thanks Alex.