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Debbi Donovan is a Board Certified Lactation Consultant, as well as a retired La Leche League Leader. For more than a decade, Debbi counseled and taught classes to couples during the childbearing year, in addition to attending births as a professional labor assistant.



All Articles by Debbi Donovan:

Ibuprofen: Safe while nursing?
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I am nursing my three-month-old angel and would like to be able to take Ibuprofen. I took this medication before I got pregnant. Will...

I have heard that breastfeeding mothers lose weight easily, but that hasn't been true for me. I have a five-month-old son, and other than...

Do you have a sample menu of good foods for the breastfeeding mother to eat? ...

I recently gave birth and with the hard labor, pain killers and no help from the nurses nursing just didn't work out. I began...

My baby is seven weeks old and nurses every two to three hours during the day. He is a big baby and gaining weight...

We have a one-month-old baby. My wife has very sore breasts. There is no redness, and no inflammation, no illness or fever, so we...

I have very large breasts with large nipples and areolas and have difficulty nursing. I experienced bleeding and blistering right from the start with...

My six-month-old son is yet to sleep for more than two hours during any given night. I can't interest him in nursing very much...

My son's stools have turned green and he is gassy. While we were waiting for results of a stool sample I supplemented with soy...

I've successfully nursed my baby since birth -- he was exclusively on breastmilk until yesterday evening, when he started eating rice cereal mixed with...

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