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Some babies need some help developing into better breastfeeders, especially after a traumatic birth. If your baby is having body tension or tightness that is affecting breastfeeding we can help!
Every mom has her own particular idea of her breastfeeding journey. Whether that is nursing at the breast, pumping milk and giving her baby bottles, or giving a mixture of breastmilk and formula, each journey is unique and with its own challenges. We can help with pumping, breast massage therapy, and breastfeeding, in whichever combination you choose.
Life happens. Work life, baby growing and developing and changing, moving, traveling, and all the while you have to manage breastfeeding and breast milk production along the way. We can help with your every growing and changing needs for the first year of baby’s life. Whether it is clogged breast milk ducts when you return to work, or mastitis symptoms, or figuring out a pumping schedule as a busy, modern, working mother. We’re here for you.
I started Mahainaona Pediatrics initially as a general pediatric clinic in 2017, but eventually evolved to focus on breastfeeding medicine. I believe that the health of a child starts in the womb, and with the health of its mother. We can’t separate the two, even though that is what medicine tries to do. Medicine tries to pigeon-hole individuals based on their age, or stage of life, or sex (i.e. pediatrics, internal medicine, OB/GYN, geriatrics as examples), or their organ systems (i.e. cardiology, pulmonology, rheumatology, orthopedics). But this is a made up system, and one that nature did not intend. A mother and child are completely aligned, and the health of mother directly impacts the health of the child. This has always been, since the beginning of us as humans. Therefore, in order to impact the health of a child, fully and holistically, as a pediatrician, is to impact breastfeeding. What the mother feeds herself, feeds her child in so many ways, not only nutritionally, but it sets the baby’s immune system and metabolic health system for life. It also impacts both the mom and the baby psychologically, in so many complex ways. Through breastfeeding, we are having the greatest impact on the lifelong health of a child, socially, emotionally, nutritionally, hormonally, neurologically, immunologically….it goes on and on.
So, because my mission as a pediatrician is to positively impact the future health of our keiki in Hawai’i, I must start with breastfeeding.
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