Lexie Proudwillow Doula

I'm back and ready to take bookings from the end of January be disability consultancy, antenatal support, attending birth or postnatal care. Despite it's politics I've missed my work.

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OK: science post!

It can be hard to explain this simply, but basically there is an ingredient in breastmilk called FIL. (Feedback Inhibitor of Lactation. Inhibitor means it inhibits, stops or discourages lactation)

As the breast fills up with milk, FIL gets bossy AF and tells the milk production to slow down.
So the fuller your b**b, the SLOWER milk is being made.

ALSO, fat kind of clings to your milk ducts, so when your breast feels as flat as a pancake after 2 hours of cluster feeding and your baby is pulling on and off like they haven't eaten for weeks they are actually pulling out that really high fat milk. So it is fine and beneficial even if they aren't getting really high volumes of it.

THEN because the breast is really soft and FIL isn't really hanging around at this point, the breast speeds up production so you have lots more milk later.

Clever isn't it?

March of mummies is on 29th October demand better childcare, maternity pay, paternity leave and so on to support families.
This is organised by Pregnant Then Screwed on instagram and it will happen in several cities.

We all struggle as caregivers and we need to show up and demand better opportunities for us all and our families. We're hoping to be there in Birmingham Chamberlain Square
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/march-of-the-mummies-2022-birmingham-tickets-313439093767

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