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From the community

Recent discussions

For the breastfeeding moms

What drink should I choose instead of soda? I’ve been drinking a lot of soda and sometimes water, but I want something bubbly to drink while breastfeeding. I don’t like seltzer water or flavored versions. Please help me find a drink.

Breastfeeding past 12 months

Guys im getting irritated. Ive been ebf now 8 months and my mum keeps saying in diff ways that “oh ur mummys gonna wean you off the breast soon” when shes 12 months.

And today shes telling me you cant breastfeed past 12 months.

And when i said i am going to and want to reach at least 2 years. Shes not saying “oh so u wanna breastfeed till 5”

Like what?

And then she’s saying because i still have baby weight i should go on manjaro. But obvs cant do that while breastfeeding.

So cant you still loose weight while breastfeeding past 12 months through diet and exercise?

Is anyone else’s family saying this about breastfeeding past 12 months? My mums just making me feel like im doing something wrong.

Is it not normal? I feel just annoyed because this is my baby and if im good with still breastfeeding her and if she still wants to breastfeed why should i stop.

How does breastfeeding past 12 months look like ?

Thank you! My rants over💗💗

EBF Babies

For those that are still exclusively breastfeeding, how many times during the day is your baby having milk?

Pumping at night

Right now I'm waking up my 5 week old to feed every 3 hours, but I'm hearing if she's her birth weight or more by her next appointment then I won't have to. She's exclusively breastfed and I really want to keep up my supply. Do I need to pump at night every 3 hours to keep my supply? Also I know feeding and supply needs change as she grows. Any helpful apps here? Thanks

Momcozy breast pump

Has anyone used the Momcozy V1 pro electric breast pump? I am wanting to express as long as I can before going on formula. Not used an electric pump before but heard good reviews.

Pregnant

Has anyone brestfed there first baby when pregnant and is it okay to keep breastfeeding as my little one is 14 months old and his still been breastfeeding and I just found out I am pregnant is it OK to keep breastfeeding

Changing bottles ?

Hey mamas!

So my daughter is almost 13 months old and we have transitioned from formula to cows milk. She has milk in the morning and before bed. But we are still currently using her MAM baby bottles. (She’s drank from Mam bottle since birth) my question is should we be switching to a “sippy” bottle ideally still mam.

I’ve put a picture at what I think is the one to move to? Or is should it be an actual sippy cup. Does anyone know or have any recommendations

For water during the day we use a straw cup.
I just know something about their developing teeth that they shouldn’t really continue drinking from a baby bottle.

Thank you!

Boob vampire

Anyone’s else’s baby bitting off your nipples when breastfeeding, especially during bedtime feeds? It’s so bad that my boobs stop milk supply which causes my baby to cry and causes me to cry, as my baby bites even harder. I don’t know what to do, as baby only 8.5 months old

Question regarding breastmilk supply / pumping

Im 10 days pp, have been exclusively breastfeeding but expressed a handful of times in the last few days as we wanted to have a few bottles on hand for my husband to feed baby EBM. I feel like I am an oversupplier as in the nighttime my boobs become engorged even when baby feeds, so I’m forced to express first thing in the morning for a few mins to make them less hard and swollen.

I’m able to express about 3-4oz in 5-10 min pump which I feel is a bit excessive.

Does anyone have any tips on dealing with this? I don’t want to end up with a massive supply but also do need to give baby bottles occasionally (as I have appointments etc I can’t take baby to).

Breastfeeding twins

I BF my first and loved it but found it v hard keeping up with pumping, bottle cleaning etc as I didn’t have enough milk to exclusively bf.

So I’m thinking about not even starting this time, to help save me mentally and physically. How did ppl cope bf twins?

Colostrum Collection Kit

Can anyone recommend the best colostrum collection kit? Preferably one that’s not silly price please☺️

refusing bottle

my breastfed 3 month old baby has just been told that she needs to go onto formula due to her not gaining enough weight, however we’ve been trying to introduce a bottle but she will just not take it at all, any advice or suggestions would be HUGELY appreciated, thankyou x

My daughter hates milk 😩

Luckily, she loves food and eats well but it has always been such a struggle to get her to drink. She’s not allergic, never sick or anything but she only ever drinks 2/3oz max of a bottle.

I have been to doctors and contacted the HV numerous times and they just say not to worry cos she is a good weight and content and has wet nappies but I find the fact she hates milk and only has a total of around 10oz every 24 hours very stressful

Breast feeding

Hi, I plan to pump and feed from a bottle when baby is here because I failed with breast feeding with my last baby but my question is what do I do when baby is first born? I know milk can take a few days to come in, do you use formula until then? I can’t remember with it being so long ago x

I really need help please

Have been breastfeeding for 10 and a half months but I'm the past few months she just always seems to latch wrong and I have painful deep cuts on both nipples, plus when she comes off my nipple is all mishaped and I have vasospasm on the end. Because of the pain of the cuts I just assumed that's what's hurting and don't realise until she came off that it was the latch aswell. And to keep using my finger to take her off to check, just hurts so much too 😭
I use cream allll the time, and she's not even feeding as often now so I'm unsure why they won't heal, and are so dry, when I have managed to heal one before.
I did use nipple shields but she wasn't emptying my boobs properly and they were getting very hard so didn't want to risk mastitis.

My issue is that I wanted to go until atleast 1 (not the end of the world, but sad to have to end it like this and not when it's painfree like it used to be), but the main issue is that she feeds to sleep and uses it to go back to sleep in the night and nothing else works 😭 so what do I do 😞

Nursing bras

Hi! Any advise for good nursing bras? I am willing to get something stomg as I am now at 29w a 38B or 38C. Thanks

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