Kelsey Fife Duarte

In the last post we talked about mommy wrist and the strain that repetitive holding and feeding puts on your wrists and thumbs. This post is about what's happening further up the chain. Because mommy wrist doesn't exist in isolation. It's part of a larger pattern of postpartum upper body tension that starts long before baby arrives. The Nursing Hunch: How It Starts Most of us are already hunching before we ever hold a baby. Hours at a computer. Looking down at a phone. Sitting in a car. The...

Nobody warned me about mommy wrist. I went to a lactation class before my son was born. They mentioned posture and the strain that feeding positions put on the upper back and shoulders. Good information. But mommy wrist was a completely different level of discomfort that I was not prepared for. There were days in early postpartum when I could barely hold my baby. When I mentioned it to other moms, so many of them had experienced the same thing. One family friend told me her wrists have never...

August is National Breastfeeding Month. This year's theme is RISE: Resilience, Interdependence, Self-Determination, Empowerment. All five of those words apply to every feeding journey, not just breastfeeding. Because however you feed your baby, it takes all of that. Every feeding journey is different. Some routes are chosen intentionally. Others are shaped by how the journey unfolds. And almost none of them go exactly as planned. The Spectrum Feeding a baby looks different for every family....