When it comes to making parenting decisions, it’s not always clear cut what’s the best choice. How you feed your baby can feel like one of these gray areas. During your pregnancy, you may have read ...

Exclusive pumping is when you feed your baby with only pumped milk, rather than direct breastfeeding or nursing. In practice, you express (or squeeze out) milk from your breast using a pump and then ...

Much like breastfeeding or chestfeeding, pumping milk shouldn’t hurt. The pump’s job is to gently encourage a milk letdown, then continue suctioning to collect that milk. This process shouldn’t be ...

What the PUMP Act means for new parents — and who isn't covered. (Photo: Getty) As many new parents know, having to pump breast milk for a newborn can be incredibly taxing — and more so when you have ...

Kate Kelly is a Pittsburgh-based writer who specializes in health and parenting. She is passionate about empowering women with good health information. She was an editor at Parents, American Baby and ...

Tara Bannow covers hospitals, providers, and insurers. You can reach Tara on Signal at tarabannow.70. Even though Erin Booth was not thrilled about having to travel to Philadelphia for a conference at ...

The U.S. Department of Labor will work to alert employees to new breast milk pumping rights, the agency announced Thursday. Its efforts will include a focus on teachers, farmworkers and care workers, ...