HomeGrown Lactation

09/09/2026

09/03/2026

🗓️ Mark your calendars!

Lactation Support Group (•)(•)

~ support ~ community ~ weighted feeding ~ breastfeeding/pumping help ~

📍Access Chiropractic- Altoona IA

✨ Free and siblings welcome! 🤎

08/31/2026

🌏 World Breastfeeding Month • Day 31 🤱🏼🤱🏽🤱🏿🤱🏻

HAPPY FINAL DAY OF WORLD BREASTFEEDING MONTH! ✨

What better way to celebrate World Breastfeeding Month than a group breastfeeding session! This photoshoot was a dream come true of mine and we couldn’t have been more honored to stand next to some of our HomeGrown Lactation families! 🥹

Thank you to the mommas and babes who came out to celebrate with us and making our FIRST Annual Group Breastfeeding photoshoot a huge success and dream come true! ✨

Also — a huge thank you to Calli Tuggle Photography - newborn / Family / senior Photography for photographing this session for us! We couldn’t have asked for a better photographer. 🫶🏽 This truly was an empowering experience!

08/30/2026

🌏 World Breastfeeding Day 30 🤱🏼

Premature babies need a little extra—and mama’s milk rises to the occasion. 🤍
Milk made after a premature birth can have differences in proteins, immune components, and other bioactive factors compared with milk made after a full-term birth.
It’s one of the incredible ways a mother’s body supports her baby’s unique beginning. ✨
To every mama pumping, nursing, supplementing, or doing whatever it takes for her tiny baby: you are doing something amazing.

08/29/2026

🌏 World Breastfeeding Month Day 29 🤱🏽

Your body is doing some pretty incredible work. 🤍

Making breast milk uses roughly 25–30% of your body’s energy—even more than the brain’s share of energy use, which is around 20%!

So yes, breastfeeding can leave you hungry, thirsty, tired, and in need of extra fuel. Your body is literally working around the clock to make nourishment for your baby. ✨
Give yourself permission to eat, drink, rest, and ask for help.

Feeding your baby is work—and your body deserves support, too. 🤎

08/28/2026

🌏 World Breastfeeding Month Day 28 🤱🏻

Your baby doesn’t have to “empty” your breast to get a full feed. 🤍

On average, babies remove about 67% of the milk available during a feeding.

The rest? Your breasts are constantly making more milk—because a breast is never truly empty. ✨

So if your baby comes off the breast happy and satisfied, trust your baby and your body. You don’t need to chase an empty breast. You need a baby who is growing, feeding, and thriving.

And remember: your breasts are a milk-making system, not a bottle with a bottom. 🤎

08/27/2026

🌏 World Breastfeeding Day 27 🤱🏽
Breast milk isn’t just food. 🤍
It’s a living, biologically active fluid that changes and interacts with your baby’s growing body—supporting their gut, immune system, and development along the way.
Pretty amazing, right?
Your body isn’t just making milk. It’s making something uniquely designed for your baby. ✨

08/26/2026

🌏 World Breastfeeding Day 26 🤱🏼

Taking a bottle is a learned skill. 🍼🤍

Just like breastfeeding, babies have to learn how to bottle-feed—it doesn’t always happen perfectly on the first try.
Give your baby time to figure it out, and give yourself some grace along the way.
Slow down. Stay patient. Trust your baby.
You’re both learning together. 🤍

08/25/2026

🌏 World Breastfeeding Month • Day 25 🤱🏿

Black Breastfeeding Week • Aug 25-31

Today, we celebrate Black breastfeeding mothers. 🤎

We celebrate the mothers who have nursed through beautiful moments, difficult moments, sleepless nights, pumping sessions, challenges, triumphs, and everything in between.

We celebrate the mothers who breastfed for days, months, or years.
The mothers who exclusively breastfed, pumped, combo-fed, donated milk, or found a feeding journey that worked for their family.

Every journey deserves to be seen. Every story deserves to be celebrated.

And that’s why representation matters.

When families see themselves reflected in lactation consultants, healthcare providers, birth workers, educators, and breastfeeding campaigns, it can help create a sense of belonging, trust, and connection.

But representation isn’t simply about seeing someone who looks like you.

It’s about creating spaces where your culture is respected, your experiences are valued, your questions are welcomed, and you feel safe asking for help.

Black families deserve a breastfeeding community where they feel seen, supported, respected, and celebrated. 🖤

Today, we honor the Black mothers who are feeding their babies, the families supporting them, and the Black lactation professionals, birth workers, educators, and advocates who continue to make breastfeeding spaces more inclusive.

🖤 Black breastfeeding matters.
🖤 Representation matters.
🖤 Inclusive support matters.

And when we make room for every family’s story, we make the breastfeeding community stronger for everyone. 🤎

Happy Black Breastfeeding Week! 🖤🤱🏾

https://blackbreastfeedingweek.org

08/25/2026

Breast milk is so much more than nutrition. 🤍

Every drop contains living white blood cells, millions of antibodies, stem cells, and the perfect combination of proteins, fats, and sugars designed to nourish and protect your baby! 🤱🏽

It’s food. It’s protection. It’s biology at work. ✨