FARGO — Friends Kayla Vogele and Amy Sinclair just gave birth to two little girls, Noah and Sawyer. Both moms have made it through their first few months of breastfeeding. It's something new for Vogele.
"Just to kind of know what to expect, I did one of the lactation classes through Sanford," Vogele said. This journey was not so new for Sinclair. "So this is my second round breastfeeding, and I can say that both experiences have been very different for me.
With my first, I struggled with a little bit of a lower supply," Sinclair said. That's when lactation services at Sanford saved the day. "They kind of helped guide me through that, and then we ended up breastfeeding all the way up to 14 months with her.
And so with Noah being my second, this round has been just a little bit more seamless," Sinclair said. Both of their followup appointments led them to Baby Cafe — a group that meets twice a week to get help from lactation consultants for free at Fargo Cass Public Health. The meetings are Mondays from 9 a.
m. to noon and Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m.
"They can reach us and weigh their baby before and after a feeding, and have a community of women supporting them as well," said Jackee Haak, Director of Sanford Family Birth Center. "For me, it was a lot of reassurance. Like one week she would be eating every two hours, and then the next week, she would want to sleep more.
And then I'd come in and ask, and they'd be like, yep, that's totally normal. Or if we had a latch issue o.