Articles & Expert Guides on Breastfeeding

Medically-reviewed expert guides, tips, real-life stories, and articles on Breastfeeding

Can You Take Ashwagandha While Breastfeeding?

Tassia O'Callaghan

The Breast Pumps Loved by Modern Moms

Phoebe Corcoran

7 Breastfeeding Positions & How to Try Them

Peanut

How to Create Your Pumping and Breastfeeding Schedule

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Top Tips for Breastfeeding with Large Breasts

Peanut

Sunflower Lecithin and Breastfeeding: What We Know So Far

Deborah Vieyra

Clogged Milk Ducts? What You Need to Know

Peanut

Caffeine and Breastfeeding: What to Know

Peanut

Breastfeeding in Public: 4 Tips to Empower Your Journey

Guest Post: The Little Milk Bar

World Breastfeeding Week: When It is & How to Celebrate

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Breastfeeding Orgasm: Fully Explained

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Your Breasts after Breastfeeding: What’s normal?

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

Foremilk vs. Hindmilk: What’s the Difference?

Keshia Sophia Roelofs

31 Best Breastfeeding Tips for New Moms

Tassia Agatowski

What is the Best Breastfeeding Diet?

Deborah Vieyra

Breast Milk Storage Guidelines & Tips from Real Moms

Tassia Agatowski

6 Best Hands-Free Breast Pumps (& Your FAQs, Answered)

Tassia Agatowski

Pumping 101: Your Complete Guide to Breast Pumping

Tassia Agatowski

Your Exclusive Pumping Guide: Tips, Tricks & Schedules

Tassia Agatowski

When to Start Pumping: Too Soon? Too Late?

Tassia Agatowski

From the community

periods!!!

just wondering who has their period back??? I'm EBF and still nooo signs at all. the plan was to try for baby #2 at 6 months pp but here we are still nadaaaa. anyone got any weird tips on getting it back while still breastfeeding??? I don't think this boy will let me wean him anytime soon 😅

oversupply

hey! so i’m currently 4 weeks pp with my baby boy and ive chosen to exclusively pump breastmilk and bottle feed due to latching problems. my issue (or blessing i guess) is that i produce too much for my baby right now. i pump 4 times a day and get about 40-45oz a day and he eats about 5oz every 3-4 hours so i have excess. the bottom drawer of my freezer is full of bags of milk and i have no use for it. we’ve used some for baths but it feels like a bit of a waste. unfortunately i can’t donate it through the official donation process because i need a blood test to do that and they only take milk expressed after they’ve checked your blood so i wouldn’t be able to give them what i already have. not sure what to do about it because i would like it to go to someone that can get use out of it. any advice would be appreciated

8 month old breastfed baby

How often are people feeding their 8month olds?

Antibiotic effect on breastmilk

I have been taking amoxicillin for a week now and my EBF baby has seemed to be coincidentally having GI issues? Larger spit ups, visibly and audibly uncomfortable, straining to poop/pas gas, lots of mucous in stool etc etc. he’s happy but also very uncomfortable. Anyone else have this issue?? Yesterday was my last day so I’m hoping he feels better soon. I feel so bad 😢

Nipple pain when breastfeeding

My baby is 1month and a week now but my niples still hurt when I breast feed him. Especially when he latches on it. I thought I’m just sensitive to it so I started pumping as well to get my nipples used to the whole breastfeeding thing but I still get the pain each time my baby is latching on. Did this happen to anyone else, does it get better with time? And in the meantime what would you recommend for the pain that worked for you? I really want to breastfeed my baby but the pain is making it difficult for me. Please advise

10 days pp and under producing

I love my baby so much he’s so cute and it’s amazing but I’m so tired. I feel so bad because it’s obvious he gets a tummy ache or gassy when drinking formula. I have a new one coming in Monday that’s supposed to be better but rn I’m pumping 1oz on both sides so I need two pump sessions to make a bottle for him. I also haven’t been latching him cause it was really painful in the beginning cause he had a shallow latch and my nipples finally are healing. I did go to the breastfeeding clinic in my hospital and they helped fix him latch. Any advice on breastfeeding and building my supply?

Is this the end of the road?

It's been a tough 2 weeks for me and my little one. We battled potential constipation, poor nappy output, overly eager clamping latch, significant nipple damage (still not healed), cluster feeding that made my toes curl all whilst trying to keep on top of my other child and be there for my family. Support has been sought from the infant feeding team, a private lactation consultant and also used a crainial osteopathy. Fixed latch issues but the level and intensity of cluster feeding wasn't giving any space for healing. My mental health is poor and I'm suffering with anxiety as well as difficultly adjusting to a new life as a mom of 2, having a dog and a husband who does not manage any level of sleep deprivation well and is still working as he is self employed and that is our only income now. We also have renovation work going on in our house and everything feels chaotic. Yesterday I looked at my babies face and realized I've not even gotten to know her or enjoy her over the last 2 weeks as we have just been overcoming hurdle after hurdle with feeding. At that point I made the choice to switch to formula. It's given me some respite to do other things as baby slept more stretches yesterday but I've been pumping while I decide what to do next. I can happily pump regularly whilst at home but when going out to appointments that end up taking all day or considering going to see friends etc I feel overwhelmed. Also waking in the night and doing at power pump at 2am was exhausting as is all the sterilising in between pump sessions. I realised I haven't slept a longer than 3 hour stretch since my daughter was born. 2 weeks ago and before that I didn't sleep for 2 days having labour pains and struggled to sleep generally towards end of pregnancy. The heatwave also added a whole new layer of hell to our journey. I suppose I'm asking for kind words, reassurance and advice about how to proceed next? I plan to try pumping again today at 3 hourly intervals instead of 2. I'm going to feed my expressed milk through the day today and see how far I get with what I have. I'm also going to ask the health visitor to refer to perinatal mental health on Monday when she visits. Anything else I can do in my situation to save my sanity and my peace of mind in this motherhood journey?

For parents of multiples who have done EBF and formula

If you EBF one baby and used formula for your other baby what would you say about your bond or connection? My husband asked me tonight if I think I’ll be closer with our second that I’m EBF than my first where breastfeeding didn’t work and we switched to formula very early on

Breastfeeding in public

I am correctly 6 weeks pp and the closest I have got to breastfeeding in public is by car.
It’s inevitable I will have to feed whilst out but can just picture my full boob being on show to the world whilst I am getting him ready to latch. I am really anxious about it.

Any tips for this!

Anyone else, I feel like my milk production is at a standstill

I mostly EBF. We finished up the formula I had as backup that I only used while we were out in public. I pumped as well but now I’m trying to make sure she only gets breastmilk. Nursing and I have a bottle for her when she goes to the nursery at church twice a week. (I also often leave class to come nurse her as she refuses bottles very often and will just scream). But these days she nurses for a long time on one boob and falls asleep, but if I put her down she’ll scream and want the other boob so I just move her to the other boob when she unlatches anyway. She’ll nurse for 20 minutes or more and still act hungry. She’s at 6-7 oz with the bottle so it just doesn’t seem like I can satisfy her just nursing anymore. I used to nurse my son and then offer him a bottle and he’d drink some of it and be fine. I just didn’t want to always have to do that with her too. Why can’t I produce enough. I dried up 8 months pp with my son as he started refusing to nurse because I barely produced anything and was also 2 months pregnant with my daughter and had another drop in production bc of the pregnancy. This was supposed to be my chance to try again with breastfeeding. Today he was so unhappy. Screaming because she couldn’t get a lot out. I felt so awful, like I let her down. I thawed out a bottle of expressed milk and gave it to her after nursing for like 15 minutes. She drank 4 oz in addition to how much he had with me. Idk what else to do, do I pump constantly as well. I barely have time as I’m nursing every hour and a half to two hours.