Mama Talk

Breast Pump Safety

Personnel enriched with knowledge on infant modes of feeding and breastfeeding from the United States Food and Drug Administration commonly referred to as FDA, have compiled a set of follow ups that a mother whose choice of feeding is preferably the breast pumps. The guidelines are here for moms so as to give them a scope on how they can store their expressed breast milk for the infant’s lactation later on.The breastfeeding moms are advised against sharing the breastfeeding pumps as one among the major safety guidelines by the FDA. Read More

Breast Pump and Insurance

Feeding moms and the babies can now enjoy the luxury of knowing that insurance companies support both their feeding efforts and counseling. The ACA better known as the Affordable Care Act or simply the Obamacare requires the insuring companies to cover for health services with breastfeeding support being among the most looked on. For instance if a coverage commenced on August 1, 2012 or later and the company the breastfeeding mother is insured to is any “non-grandfathered” plan then the feeding support and equipment’s must be covered 100% with no cost sharing or forced payments. Read More

Appropriate Tips For Choosing The Best Electric Breast Pump

As much as most people might think that choosing a breast pump is easy it’s actually the contrary, choosing the breast pump is not as easy as people might think. Most moms who have used the pumps before would definitely agree, below is a breakdown of 5 important tips that should be considered by any interested mother before they actually choose the electrical pump.

Tip #1 – Consider the four W’s

The four W’s are:
• What – is its use for? Read More

Advantages Of Hospital Grade Breast Pumps

Advantages Of Hospital Grade Breast Pumps

Some of these pumps have great features that will provide an effective alternative to breastfeeding. These features are known to reduce the stressful moment a mother experiences when she is breastfeeding. Most women are working and they need to return to work after the official maternity leave is over. Working is an important element in the support of the family and this means that they will have to go back regardless of whether they are breastfeeding or not. Read More