Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

I have a lansinoh breast pump I need a size 17 flange but they only offer a size 21 as the smallest

Tell me how y’all store your colostrum! Just pumped for the first time and got 3mL!!

I have almost inverted nipples and my baby was born with a tongue tie. Any tips on getting him to latch?

I have a 22 month old and a 5 month old and whilst grabbing the baby bottle I accidentally grabbed the wrong one so that my youngest had some sips of cow milk instead of her formula. She normally has cow milk based formula. I think she felt a weird taste and didn’t drink much of it, and as soon as I noticed and cha...

I am finally 28 weeks and in my 3rd trimester! Since about 23 weeks I’ve had some colostrum leaking out of my left nipple but it’s still only leaking from my left. Anyone have anything similar know if this is normal? I hope my right side will be able to lactate when baby comes!! Thanks in advance! 🤣🥰

What are you giving your 12 month old for milk? Anything? Whole milk? Nothing at all?

Hi Has anyone experienced cluster feeding at around 15 weeks? My son has fed for over an hour consecutively and I’m concerned as he hasn’t done this since he was a newborn. He is EBF. He has been doing wet and mixed nappies today. He has his 12 week immunisations recently and it’s all gone down hill since! Sleep reg...

I am an anxious mother and my head takes over at times.. my baby boy is 6 weeks and he has been breastfed and then topped up with formula since he was 3 days old. Little context behind this - we were still in hospital and they weighed him and advised he had lost 9.2% so I was made to feed every 3 hours and pump so t...

I’d like to be free roaming with it, but that’s my main priority! It’s such a saturated market, I’d love some recommendations 🤪🤣

My little girl absolutely lovessss her food now that she’s being weaned BUT now I feel like she’s completely gone off her milk? She’s probably drank 2 full bottles (8oz) all day today but demolished her purées etc. Has anyone else had this problem? Or is it the heat 😩

I am on antibiotics for mastitis and having to pump and dump for the next 8 days (saving the milk for baths though) I tried to continue breastfeeding but both myself and my 8 week old nurseling ended up with a rash from the antibiotic they prescribed me. 😭 I feel so depressed not being able to breastfeed anymore,…

As in sucking it from your own nipple

Do you find that you’re producing more milk on one side? For me my left produces more.

So with the weather getting hotter, I am getting slightly sweater with the heat. I do shower regularly, but my breasts today have been slightly damp and I don’t know if it’s cause I leaned in the bra or my sweat. Do I need to wipe down my nipple before a feed? With bottles they get sterilised, so how come I don’t ...

Has any other breastfeeding mums periods not returned yet? I'm combi feeding but he is obly breastfeeding at night. Some days with nursery there's 12 hours between feeds maybe more? I kind of hoped it would have returned by now as want to try for baby number 2 as it took a year to concieve first time. I'm not using...

Is your LO still waking overnight to feed? Mine is, just wondering whether others are managing to get 11/12hrs straight like I see some parents getting 🫠😅

Please help , my daughter is almost 2 and I know she shouldn't really be having a baby bottle to have milk in morning and bed . But I have tried ones with straws and she only sipps at it and took over an hour to drink it . So would it be bad to get one of these bottles. Family members are telling me she already be ...

I’ve been breastfeeding for 8 months and I plan to do so until my baby is a year old. My right breast has always significantly produced less milk and my left one produces way more. My baby also prefers the left side and always has. My breasts are two different sizes and it’s noticeable. I know I should pump on my ot...

How on earth do you stop breast feeding a bottle refusal baby? I want to move into cows milk and have tried every bottle and cup under the sun, she won’t take it. Been trying for months now - no luck

My lg is exclusively breastfed and this my first time getting to 5 months. She is starting to teeth and I donno if shes biting me while eating or what but leaving good dry red marks on my nipples. Is this happening to you and what are you doing to help!?