Vaccines
All vaccines aside from smallpox and yellow fever prior to the infant age of 9 months are safe in breastfeeding. The Covid-19 Vaccine is also safe in lactation.
Resources for Vaccines
Complete Topic List
- A Word About the Terminology “IGT”
- Abscess
- Acanthosis Nigricans
- Accessory Breast Tissue
- Adenoma
- Alcohol or Marijuana and Breastfeeding
- Anatomic Variants
- Antibiotics for Mastitis
- Apps
- As you Embark on this Journey, BE PRESENT
- Axillary breast tissue
- Babies Who Start To Sleep More At Night
- Birth Control and Breastfeeding
- Biting
- Blebs
- Bloody Discharge
- Bloody Milk
- Bottle Nipples
- Bowel Movement Challenges
- Bras
- BRCA and Breastfeeding
- Breasts
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Basics
- Breast Basics After 1 Year
- Breast Cancer and Breastfeeding
- Breast Cancer during Pregnancy
- Breast Cancer while Breastfeeding
- Breast Conditions Not Unique to Pregnancy and Lactation
- Breast Conditions Unique to Pregnancy and Lactation
- Breast Growth
- Breast Growth and Engorgement
- Breast Lump
- Breast Masses and Conditions
- Breast Reductions
- Breast Surgery or Breast Biopsy
- Breastfeeding and Previous Breast Cancer Treatment
- Breastfeeding Stools and Oversupply
- Breastfeeding Supply List
- Breastfeeding While Pregnant or Undergoing IVF
- Breastmilk Content and Volume
- Breastmilk Content, Volume Recommendations, and Infant Weight Gain
- Breastmilk Research
- Burns on Breast
- Burping
- Cancer Screening during Pregnancy and Lactation
- CAUTION: Nipple Shields
- Choking and Gasping at Breast
- Chronic Disease or New Onset Illness Impacting Milk Production
- Cleft Palate, Down Syndrome, Other Congenital Conditions
- Clicking
- Cluster Feeding
- Colic
- Colostrum
- Colostrum in Pregnancy
- Complementary Foods
- Conceiving and/or Pregnancy While Breastfeeding
- Cries the Minute We Put Baby Down
- Cries While Feeding
- Cysts
- Dermatitis (eczema)
- Developmental Leaps
- Diaper Rash
- Difficulty Walking
- Distractible Baby
- DMERs and Nipple Nerve Pain
- Donor Milk
- Dream Feeding
- Early Solids
- Ectodermal Dysplasia
- Engorgement
- Engorgement, Breast Lymphedema, and Pain
- Engorgement, Mastitis, and Everything Related
- Environmental Exposures
- Environmental Toxins
- Exclusive Pumping
- Exercise, Weight Loss, and Nutrition
- Exhaustion
- Extra Nipples
- “Fat Globules” In Milk
- Fat Necrosis
- “Flat” Nipples
- Feeding at the Breast should NOT BE TIMED
- Feeding by Age and Stage
- Feeding Cues
- Feeding Questions
- Feeds Become More Comfort Oriented and Infants Distractable
- Fibroadenoma
- Flow Sensitive Baby
- Flus, Colds, COVID
- Formula or Donor Milk Supplementation
- Four-Month Developmental Leap
- Freezer Stashes
- Fungal Infections
- Fussy Baby
- Galactocele
- Gassy Baby, More at Night
- Gender Affirming Surgery
- General Considerations
- General Infant Concerns
- Getting Your Period
- Gigantomastia
- Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts
- Granulomatous Mastitis
- Growth Curves
- Growth Spurts
- Hair Loss Postpartum
- Hamartoma
- Hand Expression
- Health History and Medications
- Hidradenitis Suppurativa
- “High Lipase” Milk
- “Hindmilk and Foremilk Imbalance” and Baby Weight Gain
- Home Scales
- Hospital Or Birthing Center
- Hyperlactation (Oversupply) and Breastfeeding Stools
- Hyperkeratosis (“Warty Nipple”)
- Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis (IGM or GM)
- If You Feel Silly Doing It…
- If You Have an Older Child at Home
- Increasing Production
- Induced Lactation
- Infant Allergies
- Infant Needing Surgery
- Infant Questions
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer Versus Engorgement
- Injectables and Herbs
- “Insufficient Glandular Tissue”
- Inverted Nipples
- Iron
- Is Baby Getting Enough?
- Jaundice
- Keloid Scars
- Keloids and Breastfeeding
- Labor
- Lactating Adenoma
- Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM
- Lactogenesis I: You May Notice Colostrum Production
- Lactiferous Sinuses
- Latch
- Latch and Position
- Leiomyoma
- Letdowns
- Likes to Be Held
- “Lipstick” Nipple Shape
- Long Feeds
- Lopsided Breasts
- Loud Baby/Baby Noise
- Low Supply
- “Low Supply”: Continued Early Supplementation
- Lymph Nodes
- Lymphedema
- Male Breast Cancer
- Massage
- Mastitis
- Maternal Health and Illness
- Maternal Questions
- Milk after weaning
- “Milk Coming In” and Engorgement
- Milk Fistula
- Milk Stasis
- Mondor’s Disease
- Montgomery Glands
- Mood and Anxiety Disorders in Pregnancy
- Mythbusters
- Nevi (Moles) and Seborrheic Keratoses
- Next Steps: 3-6 Weeks
- Nipple adenoma
- Nipple Areolar Complex (NAC) Procedures
- Nipple Breast Masses and More
- Nipple Color Changes During Breastfeeding
- Nipple Crust
- Nipple Discharge
- Nipple Eversion
- Nipple Masses and Conditions
- Nipple Pain during Breast Feeding
- Nipple Piercing and Tattooing
- Nipple Reduction
- Nipple Shape
- Nipple Shape and Size
- Nipple Shield
- Nipple Sizers and other Gadgets
- Nipple Wound Care
- Nipples
- Nursing Strike
- Older Siblings
- Oncolactation
- One Year Plus
- Oral Contraceptives/IUD
- Other Chronic Diseases
- Paget’S Disease
- Pain
- Periductal Mastitis
- Persistent Pelvic Pain and/or Incontinence
- Pets
- Phlegmon
- Placental Encapsulation
- Plastic Surgery
- “Plugs”
- Plugging
- Poland Syndrome
- Pooping
- Position and Latch: It’s All About the POSITION!
- Postpartum Mom
- Pregnancy and Birth
- Prenatal Breastfeeding Education
- Prenatal Breastfeeding Support
- Probiotics
- Prominent Lymph Nodes
- Psoriasis
- Pulling Off Breast
- Pumping
- Pumping for Engorgement
- Pumping for 24 Hours
- PUPPP and HIVES
- Rashes
- Refusing a Bottle
- Relationships and Sex
- Review Resources For The “4th Trimester”
- Rooting
- Seek Prenatal Breastfeeding Support
- Self-Weaning
- Sick or Hospitalized Infant
- 6 Weeks to 6 Months
- Sleep
- Sleep Training
- Sleepy Baby
- Short Feeds
- Silicone Rupture and Silicone Injections
- Six Months to One Year
- Sleep Regression
- Sleep Training
- Sleepy Baby
- Skin Tags
- Skin to Skin
- SNS (Supplemental Nursing System)
- Spitting up Blood & Bloody Diapers
- Still Looking Pregnant
- Stop Bottle Nipples
- Subacute Mastitis
- Substances of Abuse
- Supernumerary Nipples
- Supplemental Nursing System (“SNS”)
- Surgery and Breastfeeding
- Surgery on Breast or Chest Wall/Lungs/Heart
- Surgical Procedures while Breastfeeding
- Surrogacy
- Surrogacy and Donor Milk
- Sweating
- Swelling Under Arm (Axillary Breast Tissue)
- Syringe Feeding
- Tandem Breastfeeding
- Tattoos
- 10-10-10
- The “4th Trimester”
- They feel soft, do I have enough milk?
- Thrush
- Timing of Feeds
- Tounge Tie (ankyloglossia)
- Trash the Pump and Dump
- Triple Feeding
- Tubular Breast
- Using Mom as Pacifier
- Vaccines
- Vaginal Dryness
- Vaginal Dryness and Night Sweats During Lactation
- Vasospasm
- Viral Infections
- Water for Babies
- Weaning
- Weaning a Baby
- Weaning from Pump
- Weight Gain
- Weight Loss
- Weight Loss and Need for Donor Milk or Formula
- Wet and Poopy Diapers
- What is this weird/bad feeling with my letdown (DMERS)
- Will Baby Sleep Longer If He Takes More Milk in a Bottle?
- Wrist and Neck Pain
- Yeast