Here I’m answering how I maintained milk supply while training for a marathon and in general keeping milk supply with heavy exercise. Recently I ran the Rock ‘n Roll Marathon in Savannah, Georgia, at 7 months (+3 weeks!) postpartum while exclusively breastfeeding. I’ve gotten a lot of questions about maintaining milk supply while exercising 5-6 days …
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Baby-Led Weaning | Six Month Baby Feeding Update, Sample Baby Meal Ideas & Schedule
In this blog post I discuss baby-led weaning and updates in feeding since my first blog post about introducing solids here. Today Baby T turns 7 months old! I’ve been posting a fair amount about her eating on my IG stories and was asked to give an update of where we are now. A lot …
Personal Diet Labels: Why Does Everybody Have to “Be” Something?
Labeling ourselves by what we eat is all the rage. How did we get here? I’ve been a dietitian for 4 years and formally studying nutrition for 11 years. Backtrack further to the first “food rules” I followed as a 12 year old gymnast and later my first official low-carb diet in ninth grade. We’re …
The Whole30 Program: Whole30 Diet Review from a Dietitian
As I’ve been making my way through diet reviews, I thought I’d circle back to the Whole30 diet since it’s been a pretty long-standing, popular diet. Whole30 Diet Review What is Whole30? Whole30 is a 30-day, elimination diet that emphasizes whole, unprocessed foods. That said, it arbitrarily (sorry) eliminates a number of highly nutritious, whole, …
Tips for Pumping While Traveling
Being a nursing mama while traveling isn’t easy, but it’s doable! Here are my top tips for maintaining milk supply and pumping while traveling, prepping beforehand and bringing your milk home. Pin it here. At three months old, I took my first work trip away from Baby T. Actually I took two trips within the same …
Canned Foods… Are They All That Bad?
Canned fruits and veggies may get a bad rap, but they have surprising nutrition facts and are a simple way to include more produce in your diet. I just got back from Sacramento, California (my first time!) where I toured a peach orchard, tomato field and each of their canneries. It was so enlightening! I …
