Kristie McNealy, MD

Providing breastmilk for your preemie or NICU baby can be stressful and time consuming. As a matter of fact, I’ve even found that breastfeeding a perfectly healthy term baby (who just happens to develop a million food allergies) can sometimes turn you life upside down. No matter what your circumstances are, finding the [...]

Mother’s of preemies are usually encouraged to pump their breast milk, so it can be given to their babies by feeding tube or bottle before they are mature enough to breastfeed on their own. Even women who were planning to formula feed are asked to consider pumping initially because their milk is “like medicine” [...]