Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

Can anyone recommend cups they use for milk for their toddler? Struggling to stop mine having a bottle before bed!

Whats the best electric breast pump to buy? TIA

Now that babies are getting to the 6/7 month mark and are starting solids, how many times does your little one feed on the boob still?

What milk is everyone’s baby’s on? Got to change mine from Aptamil advised by health visitor due to my newborn keep bringing sick

What is your schedule? I’m trying to do both bits it’s been tough with doing on demand Bf and pumping. My goal is to demand feed in the early mornings & pump in the evening and get a stash

I’m almost 4 months postpartum and I’ve only had 1 period… Is that normal or not? I don’t breastfeed or do anything different than I did before I had a baby…. It’s almost like it disappeared! But I start to cramp and I think I’m going to start then I never do!

Can I breastfeed my 10 month old even though I have food poisoning??

Any other moms in this groups that are still breastfeeding their 2+ year olds?

I am desperately looking for maternity bras. I’m 16 weeks pregnant and literally nothing fits. Something comfortable and that will securely hold the girls. They don’t have to be nursing bras just something affordable and again comfortable :) thank you

Do you all have set schedule on when you feed or breastfeed your baby? My mom is constantly telling me that I need to make schedule and breastfeed baby every 3-4 hours. I can not do that since I am feeding her on demand and usually every 1.5-2 hours and she is only 3.5 months old. I am curious to see what others thi...

I’m 3 days PP and milk has come in… breasts were rock solid, I’ve expressed and fed baby by breast too but I feel the milk is just going straight through her, every time she feeds she needs to be changed immediately and when a fresh nappy is on she’s going again… is this normal? Or is she having stomach issues with ...

Ok so my baby is 2 months old and I’ve been exclusively pumping since birth. I’m a SAHM and usually give my baby freshly pumped milk, and will freeze all the extra milk at the end of the day. Since I am an over supplier, I’ve been able to build a good large freezer stash so far. I have about 1200 ounces of milk in m...

Please help, I want to breast feed my baby she’s almost 6 weeks but I feel as though I just don’t have milk. Whenever I’m pumping I’m getting 1 ounce per boob and it’s really frustrating me. I’m more than happy to give her breast milk in the bottle but I can’t even do that. She is latching and drinking fine and seem...

Can someone please give me some tips on how to stop I have been EBF my little girl for almost 11 months now, she’s never taken a bottle, I have tried in a sippy cup and she will take one sip then wont drink anymore. She started going nursery 3 times a week a couple weeks ago and I thought this would be my opportu...

Anyone using any hayfever tablets/solutions and been told it’s safe for breastfeeding by docs? If so, what have they recommended? My eyes are super itchy.

Anyone breastfeeding and still using nipple shields? If so how’s weaning off them going out are you not trying yet? Or has anyone used them for a prolonged amount of time and successfully got rid of them? (I’m not talking weeks i mean months) Was told by the lactation consultant at 9 days it would take a long tim...

Hey Moms! Any mom’s want to have a support chat to talk about the struggles of breastfeeding, pumping, & formula?

Can anyone recommend a dummy brand that is good for breastfed babies? I want to introduce one for napping during the day as he is using my boob to soothe himself to sleep and won’t sleep any other way. Have tried mam but he just seems to spit them out

Baby is 11 days old and has been feeding pretty much hourly for the last few hours. Trying to remind myself that cluster feeding is normal but it’s so hard to trust your body sometimes isn’t it! Especially when we’ve had a few weigh losses at the start. Anyone else in the cluster feed trenches!?

Hey guys , I’m 25 weeks now with twin girls . And I have a 19 month old too . With my 19 month old my supply started to drop a lot near 5 months and then we put her on formula due to having to do ivf meds trying for the twins . Curious though , how many of you had enough milk supply to breast feed both your twins ?