Postpartum

Moving from rushed traditional medical care to in-depth, personalized pediatric care

How extra time with your doctor leads to more detailed, attentive, and empathetic care.

Appreciating our lactation consultants - honoring my personal LC and friend. How she helped me become the breastfeeding medicine doctor I am today.

A reflection on recent events and those to come.

Let’s be real. When you were pregnant with your first child (or if you are currently pregnant), did anyone sit you down and prepare you for what postpartum would truly be like?

Most of us are familiar with the concept of mommy guilt. That feeling of “I’m a terrible mom,” “I’m not good enough,” or “I failed my kids”. Sometimes it takes the shape of comparing ourselves to an idealized version of a mother, or to our peers, who always seem to have it together and are effortlessly mothering without faults.

When both my babies caused me pain with latching and had issues with excessive weight loss as newborns, I knew something was wrong. But what?

As a pediatrician, I was taught that “breast is best” and that to secure a good future for my child, I had to exclusively breastfeed...