Here’s what science tells us about the hormonal pathways behind breastfeeding’s protective effect.

Science now confirms what many mothers sense intuitively: the gut and the breast are deeply connected...

Breastfeeding isn't simply about babies. It's actually a four-way race between your body, your sleep, your stress, and your support..

We’re often told milk supply is a “supply and demand” system, nurse often, and supply will follow. That’s true. But it’s incomplete...

Women who breastfeed tend to have a lower lifetime risk of breast cancer. But the biology behind this protection isn’t straightforward...

Breastfeeding not only helps stabilise these postpartum hormonal swings, but the very hormonal environment it creates is thought to protect mothers long-term, including against breast cancer.

We spend so much time talking about what breastfeeding women should eat or drink, but so little about what they put on their skin. Yet the evidence is clear...

When I was breastfeeding, one truth hit me harder than I expected: my body wasn’t just feeding my baby, it was filtering, transforming, and upgrading everything I ate into her first nutrition..

Every breastfeeding mother, across every culture, has faced the same whispered fear: am I making enough milk? And for millennia, the answer was sought not in clinics but in kitchens and gardens.

Supporting exclusive breastfeeding isn’t just about encouraging women to continue; it’s about making sure their bodies are nourished enough to thrive while doing it.

Breastfeeding is often described as natural, instinctive, even effortless, yet in reality, for many women, it is anything but.

When I first began breastfeeding, I was dealing with the opposite of what so many mothers fear...