Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

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Starting solids, effect on breastfeeding?

Hey mamas, my 6 month old has been having a blast trying solid foods. She will try to eat anything and everything and nothing slows her down. Has anyone had a negative impact on breastfeeding after starting solids? My girl has had lots of "breastfeeding strikes" and gets mad about nursing a lot.

To pump or not to pump?

That is thy question 😂

No but seriously my breasts are so heavy and aching. I’m 5 months pregnant and my milk didn’t fully “dissolve” from my first pregnancy two years ago. I didn’t breast feed because I wasn’t able to produce much milk but something tells me it will be different this time around.

Anyone with 2 under 2 experienced this type of discomfort? Should I use the pump to see if anything comes out and if so, how long should I be on it?

Help 🥺

12 month review

I had my little ones review today and left feeling very deflated. Wondered if anyone else felt like this? I know everyone and every baby is completely different

So my little one is breastfed and they have told me to stop. That she should be getting all her nutrients from her food and to give her cows milk instead. To also cut out night feeds and offer water instead. (I know night feeds have to stop and I have to stop feeding eventually) but it all seems so abrupt! I thought breastfeeding was encouraged till 2…

She’s never been the best eater and likes to graze. They’ve told me to cut out all snacks and it just feels like I’m then going to let her be hungry… I follow nursery times of breakfast snack lunch snack when we’re home so I’m unsure

Don’t really know what the point of this post is but I just felt so deflated for the rest of the day🥲

Help baby won’t take a bottle

Exclusively breastfeeding , for the first couple weeks when husband was on paternity leave she would take a bottle and have some formula but once he went back to work it all kind of fell of me and we stopped with the bottles. We’ve tried three bottles now DR brown, tommee tippee and mam but she’ll just hysterically cry if they come near her any tips??

Breastfeeding and nursery

Exclusively breastfeeding mums, when your baby went to nursery at 10 months, how many oz's per bottle and how many bottles did you find you needed for a whole day vs half day at nursery?

My baby starts next week for half days to begin with but she has exclusively breastfed on demand up to this point

Weird but honest question

I will be having my first child in August and I am planning to breastfeed but, I’m concerned whether it will feel weird. I enjoy nipple play during intimacy so I’m not sure if that will shut off automatically when I breast feed or if I’ll have a weird feeling and want to be able to prepare my response to it because I’d have to reject the baby on my breast due to a weird/odd feeling that is supposed to be sexual to me. I don’t know how to explain it. I’m just worried it might have that same feeling and I don’t want to have that while breast feeding. Will this be true? Are there any alternatives? Or will I need to pump?

Cluster feeding day and night?

Anyone else's little going through a cluster feeding stage? Second baby is 4 weeks but premature. He's been scoffing food since he arrived early and gaining weight well. But now he's cluster feeding and contact napping only, all day and night. I'm exhausted.

Would love to know that I'm not alone in the trenches.

Breastfeeding and periods

How long til your periods came back? I've heard its when baby sleeps through the night or when u go back to work as wpuld be feeding alot less. Theo feeds fairly minimal now as in only feeds to sleep but still haven't got a period (not tht im complaining lol) he doesnt sleep through the night, I returned to work in September

Comfort milk

Hey, is anyone’s baby on comfort milk?

Milk supply

My supply dropped, In laws got us sick so much drama and stress. I was so sick I could barely make formula to feed my baby. Went from pumping 5ozs every couple of hours to now not even a couple drops. It's grief alone feeling like my body failed me and I failed my baby. 💔😞 starting up again is that even possible now? I feel so hopeless

Clingy baby not accepting the bottle

Baby is almost 7 months and will be starting nursery at 9 months while I go back to work 3 days a week.
The issue is she won’t accept a bottle( breastfed baby) we have been trying basically since November with multiple teats to no avail🙈 she will take one atm but not overly happy about it and isn’t reliably accepting it.
She is also really clingy and not too happy with anyone apart from me- even dad atm!
I’m so scared about nursery. I’ve been trying to prepare her but I’m lost for what to do! Any help?

I’ve sorted returning to work but I feel like I may have to just not go back until she’s 1 year old? How much notice do I need to give to do that? UK based…

Breast feeding - lump

Have any breastfeeding mums found any lumps in their boobs? I’ve found a lump in one of mine, I don’t think it’s a blocked milk duct as I can’t massage it out and it’s been there around 3 weeks now.

I’ve been to the doctors and she said she’s not worried it’s cancerous as I don’t meet enough of the risk factors to warrant a scan - young - no family history - non smoker, it seems bizarre to me that a lump wouldn’t be checked when it’s drilled into us to check for lumps, she said to come back in a month if it’s got any bigger but I’m really worried about it.

Would love any advise or if anyone has had anything similar or any ideas what it might be?

Thank you 🙏

EBF baby not putting weight on!!

My baby is 8 weeks, and I've been told my baby is dropping percentiles so we're going for regular weigh ins again and it's making me feel anxious. I feed on demand, let her comfort feed, offer both sides and try not to let it go more than 4 hours without a feed. I don't know what else I can do. The regular weigh ins make me feel like I'm being a terrible mum. Sometimes when she's asleep I'm forcing her to get up which really agitates her too.

Can anyone offer me any advice?

Ready to give up.

My ready to give up. My baby girl has not latched in over a week and I’ve been exclusively pumping because she has not latched. I’ve been offering her in my breast every time she’s hungry. She’s just not watching and if she does latch it’s for maybe a minute and then she’s screaming again we’ve had to supplement with formula since she was three days old because my supply never came in pumping is taking a lot out of me physically and mentally and I’m ready to just be done. My husband keeps trying to make me feel better, but honestly, you’re just making me feel worse. He’s found a couple TikTok’s to help me increase my milk supply, but it’s just more pumping and more pumping and I can’t anymore. I’ve been triple feeding since she was three days old and it’s been almost 8 weeks. I know I’m not a bad mom for stopping but I feel I should be able to push through because it’s only been seven weeks she’s been alive. I’ve talked to a lactation consultant that basically made me feel like I’m failing and I’m the problem. I don’t know where to go from here. Thank you for reading.

Need help!

My baby is about to turn 7 months old on the 13th so it’s time to upgrade his pacis! He is exclusively breastfed and has only ever used Dr. Browns happy pacis so I’m trying to see if other breastfed moms have used the Dr. Browns advantage 6-18m pacis and how they took them!

Milk for reflux

Mums that have had baby with reflux-

Should I try change my baby’s milk & if so best milk recommendations for baby with reflux please, gp has also given omeprazole🤍 5 weeks old -

How do I get my daughter to drink water?

She only wants milk with her food. Won’t drink water in anything. Bottle, open cup, straw cup. Won’t even drink milk from open cup or straw cup.

I’m I not good enough??

I’m a ftm and breastfeed. At the hospital I was in TEARS, because I didn’t know if my baby was getting enough. The Dr. came in and told us if she wasn’t getting enough to give her formula. Her dad JUMPED at it before Dr. got all of the words out. That made me fell like such a failure. Fast forward!! . She’s still falling asleep while eating. I had a family emergency and had to start giving her formula a few times a week.😞 I’ve explained to dad how I feel like a failure when I’m not able to feed my baby. When I’m home she doesn’t sleep as much became on and off the boob all day. When I’m gone he gives her a bottle and she’s out for hours . I’m running on 2 hrs of sleeps. He wants to feed her and let me get rest. I love that but it hurts my feeling because IM RIGHT HER. Am I not enough.

How many pumps per day?

I pumped 8x a day until 3 months then dropped to 7x a day with a little bit of a stretch at night but still pumping between 2-5 every night. My baby is 4 months old and everything I see says 5-6 pumps for that age. I’m a just enougher. He eats about 28oz a day and on average I make 30oz some days I don’t make as much as he eats and others I make a little more so it’s always worked out. I’m worried about not making enough but dropping a pump would make life so much easier. Any personal experience on this? I know I can add it back if needed but don’t want to drop if it’s a bad idea.

Hands free Breast pump?

What breast pumps are you guys using? Where are you ordering it from? Last time I ordered from Aeroflow and I got the Motif Luna. I ended up giving it away after I was done using it. This time around I want a hands free one.