Breastfeeding

I feel like I'm supposed to enjoy it and I do like 25% to 59% of the time. And for the most part it's painless but it's just so time consuming and takes up most of my day and I know I'm privileged to be able to even breastfeed since I know so many women can't but I really don't like it whatsoever but the guilt of ev...

Has anyone else started to collect colostrum? I started about 4 days ago and have been getting around about 1ml / 1.5ml each day however today I was unable to collect anything, I had small drips and drabs of colostrum however not enough to collect. Just wondering how normal this is to have days with a high supply th...

I’m 30 weeks and noticed my nipple has slight wrinkles around in the shower. I squeezed them slightly and noticed a tiny droplet of yellow colostrum I believe forming Is that normal? Should it be produced this early?

Hiya guys, my little girl is 6 days old now, she has dropped nearly 15% of her birth weight! I was exclusively breast feeding but have now had to stop it her on a feeding plan of 60ml a day (mix of breast and formula) she still is only having about 20ml of a bottle and that’s taking over and hour to have as she just...

My little girl is 3 weeks old today and has been cluster feeding for the last two days which I know is normal. Just wondering how long this lasted for people?

Hey, has anyone else’s baby started refusing their milk after weaning? I’m talking every single bottle! She’s nearly 7.5 months, only just started having two meals a day and it doesn’t seem like she’s even having a lot for each meal but she won’t drink any milk. Even first thing in the morning when I’d expect her t...

Is it normal to only get 1ml out of each boob. I've tried pumping and it doesn't work for me. So I had express and have been for nearly 2 weeks but each time (doing it twice a day) I only get 1ml out of each boob.

Can I please have your breast pump recommendations? There is so many out there, it’s a little overwhelming 😅 I’d rather hear real recommendations!! Do I get a single or double? Manual or electric? Hands free or not? What are your fav things about your breast pump? Or things you don’t like about it? Are more…

Unfortunately my breastfeeding journey has to come to an end. My little boy is 7 weeks old and he's been put on dairy free formula. I'm devasted but it's what's best for him. What the quickest way to dry my milk up? I hate pumping and it just takes up so much time.

This has finally cracked it for us! It's the MAM learn to drink cup and we give a tiny bit of sugar free squash. We had semi-success with the Tommy Tippy free flow cup but she took to the MAM cup immediately! (We've tried about 6 different bottles all in all 🫠😂)

Hi my baby is two weeks and was born 8pounds2oz but dropped to 7pounds4oz hes latched on me for 40 minutes up to an hour and don’t cry for food but obv something is wrong if he is losing weight, when I try to pump with haakaa a can’t even get 10 ml , what do I do wrong that I cant even breastfeed my baby 😢

I am FTM, baby is 3 months and 1 week old. I am struggling with breastfeeding issues since beginning. Despite the pain i am exclusively breastfeeding baby girl. History is in first few weeks i had very bad deep stabbing pain in my breast. Which got relieved after doing antibiotics course suggested by GP. Then sta...

Are you still giving bottles of milk? If not, what do they drink out of? I want my boy to come off bottles, but he struggles with an open cup, we have the munchkin 360 cup he drinks out of for water but I’ve been told it’s not good to give that with milk in as it’s really hard to clean?

I stopped breastfeeding around 4 weeks ago because my baby wouldn’t take to to my breast anymore. She flat out refused no matter what I tried. I’ve been pumping on and off and getting 30mls here and there but I’ve seemed to completely run dry now but I’m trying my best to get the breastmilk flowing again by making a...

Anyone else really struggling with colostrum? I don’t feel like I can get in the zone and not a drop is coming out… then the fact that nothing is coming out is really kicking me out of the head space I need to be in. 😞

How many of you tandem feed your twins? I’m wondering if I need to get the mybrestfriend twin or if the single version of it I have from my son will be fine. I just don’t know how realistic it is to feed them both at the same time.