Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

I’m so confused, my LG is almost 5 months and EBF since she was 2 months old. I only ever offered her one breast and let her empty that out as that was what I was told. Recently, the health visitor told me I should be offering the other breast too. Really conflicting advice, she is putting on weight/nappies are fine...

My daughter is 14 months old. About a week ago she fell off the chair and her gums started bleeding. The bleeding settled in a couple of hours but she had pain that she could not eat anything solid for 2 days and could not breastfeed too. Although I am already giving her milk apart from breast milk. But now she has ...

With my other 2 kids I didn’t buy any because i wanted to breastfeed but they never latched and i ended up pumping and also giving formula. This time around i really want to breastfeed and i hope she latches. This time around i know that the milk takes days after c sections to come down so i want to be patient for i...

I’m 3 months pp and my milk supply has dramatically changed in the last week. I’m still pumping the exact same as I was, my life style hasn’t changed in anyway, I haven’t changed my diet, I cannot pin point what’s happened 😭 I was pumping 120ml a pump last Saturday and today I’m pumping 30ml a pump if I’m lucky.…

Not been feeling well last couple of days and realised it’s tonsillitis this morning. My little one is 3 weeks old and I’m exclusively breastfeeding. Has anyone else had it, and have you been prescribed antibiotics?? Keen to kick it ASAP as it’s making the nights 10 times worse than they already are - I’m exhausted...

Any baby porridge out there that contains no dairy milk?

Just over 4 months and I guess we’ve hit the stage where she’s noticing more and wanting to look around. Specifically on the right boob she latches for a couple seconds, looks up at me smiling, latches again, and that cycle goes on. On the left she keeps pulling off and almost taking my nipple with her! It’s frustra...

Breastfeeding is literally taking the biggest toll on my mental health and honestly I don’t think my husband truly gets how draining it is, like I feel so tired of being a mom. My daughter is currently cluster feeding and I’m literally feeding her more then I’m sleeping cause even when she’s sleep there’s so much ar...

Hi, I’m still breastfeeding my one and a half year old. Last week he bit and pulled one of my nipples, he never does that, and it hurt a lot. After that it started to hurt a little more every time I breastfed. To the point that a few days ago it became painful to breastfeed in that one breast. Since is not getting b...

Is anyone else still breastfeeding? I really wanna stop but just procrastinating.

Hey in the last couple of days my little boy has been refusing to nurse from me. He’s just shy of 16 weeks and we’ve never had this problem before. I think he’s teething as he’s gnawing on his hands a lot as well as dribbling loads. Is there anything I can do? It’s getting quite frustrating. This is the only thing I...

I recently had a baby and I have a wedding in May of next year. I’m feeling very stressed about losing enough weight to feel good about myself(30-40lbs). I know what has worked for me in the past but I’m afraid it may compromise my milk supply. Does anyone have any programs or tips to lose weight but still keep a su...

How many nursing bras do you own? I currently only have 4 from Asda. Should I get more? And which ones do you recommend that aren’t too expensive?

HELP!! Im pretty sure my baby has a shallow latch. We have to use a nipple shield to nurse bc I have flat nipples, but my nips are sooo sore and damaged. I thought using a nipple shield prevented pain? The first 20 seconds or so of feeding hurts SO bad I mean screaming kicking pain. Does this sound like a shallow la...

Hi guys, my little one is 8 months next week. She’s got a cold but is completely off her bottle and food, I thought it was due to her having a blocked nose. But she takes breasts, she currently combi fed. I’m scared it’s an aversion. Is this common when babies have colds? She’s literally skipped two feeds today and...

How to stop? 😭😭😭🥲🥲🥲 he screeeams if I don’t bf. He refuses cow’s milk. Tried mixing it with bm, tried adding honey. Tried cold and tried hot. :) on top of that he cries for it at night time. If you are going to be rude in comments, please just abstain from commenting.

I’m an exclusive pumper my breasts are way to big to breast feed and the baby screams frantically whenever we try I usually pump enough throughout the day, sometimes even a little extra But now the baby is cluster feeding like crazy, Taking 5-7 oz usually he takes 3 And I can’t pump enough to keep up demand 😭…

Hi ladies, any advice on how to deal with leaky boobs on a night. I breastfeed during the day and my partner usually gets up to bottle feed on a night as i dont seem to wake up first 🙈😅 but when i do wake up my top is quite wet 🙈 Ive tried vests/crop tops/bras all with breastpads in and i just seem to leak,…

Okay so I am taking antibiotics for my c section infected wound which is not bad we caught it on time. I had a CT scan on Wednesday and I had to pump and dumb for 24hrs then next day I noticed my milk supply’s went down by 5oz. Recently I have been making only 5oz every 3to 4hrs. My breast are sore my nipple is kind...

Still eating plenty and drinking plenty. Used to get 120-150ml per pump and it’s just dropped right off. Anyone got any ideas why or how to fix it? X