Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

Will they enlarge and feel full again? They only felt full and swollen for a day.

What are your breast pump recommendations? Ideally I need a double one that makes it easy to still move around and do jobs as I’m always on the go!

Breastfeeding and CMPA? What are you guys eating? Have you found any good dairy alternatives for yourselves? I’m struggling as my diet is already very limited (extremely fussy)🤣 so I don’t eat meat or anything, could really use the help!

Hi all! So I’m planning on formula feeding my baby (due Jan) and I was just wondering if you have to take milk in or if they provide at least some brands? I’m planning on using SMA or SMA little steps, however my friend who had her son says they provided bottles of milk for her, but I’m hearing others had to take th...

I’m wanting to stop breastfeeding as I just feel done with it now and I feel I’ll be happier not breastfeeding. I’ve started to replace one feed with a bottle of formula as my baby didn’t seem to like the frozen breast milk but he doesn’t take it very well from a bottle weather that be breast milk or formula. How lo...

So I’m EBF and I’m only 11 days in. And I’m leaking a lot especially at night, I got one of those breastmilk collectors which helps a lot during the day. But I have to change sheets pretty much every morning, just wondering if there’s a tip until it gets better..

Help FTM and so lost!! Do I need to get a manual and automatic breast pump?? I was planning to get the momcozy m5 but I’ve seen a lot of people say they have 2 different ones. Is a manual necessary?

I appreciate everyone is different but can you share your recommendations for breast pumps? I’m EBF but want to introduce a bottle at 6/8 weeks so thinking I could get a pump now in the Black Friday sales. There seems to be so many to choose from!

Hi Im currently have a cold and I'm breastfeeding I just wondered if anyone knew what you can take to help this?

Breastfeeding mamas, just wanted to check in on you because this cluster feeding is hard 😅 We’re on day 11 and been cluster feeding from around 4/6pm to midnight for the last 5 days! Please can anyone reassure me that they come out of this stage and become regular again! 😂 Weight gain is amazing for a BF baby…

I’m combined feeding my baby with actually now more breast feeding than formula . I’ve worked so hard with the breast feeding as I’ve not found it easy hence combined feeding but I’m feeling so unconfident about how I look. I feel like I need to eat lots of calories for the breast feeding to work well but not sure i...

are they worth it? and do they really help? With my first i used the gel packs as I was sore from pumping and feeding. Wondering if the nipple covers are better or just stick to the gel packs.

My plan (of course I’m open to whatever happens ) is to breastfeed exclusively especially in the beginning until we’re confident in baby’s ability to then have me pump/ be able to use my husband for bottle feeds. But how many bottles to you guys think I need even in the beginning if we plan to exclusively breastfeed...

I am 6 months into pp and my baby used nipple shield to latch when she was born. I got used to it and bf was going smoothly. For past 2-3 weeks my baby doesn't want nipple shield and would remove it. But now i am having severe pain for few seconds (which feels like eternity) whenever she latches. Its like my initial...

What are yall pumping out at about a week post partum?

Has your baby moved to cows milk at 18months? Do you do skimmed or semi skimmed milk? Million dollar question: how do you safely warm a milk bottle in the microwave? Thank you

My son is breastfed. He all of a sudden just stopped wanting to latch. He arches his back & starts crying every time I try. Does anyone know why he’s doing this? He will take a bottle too, so I’ve been using my stash to feed him. My mama heart hurts though because I love breastfeeding him.

Cluster feeding is…. Hell!!! That’s all. That’s the post. You are all doing great!!! We got this 💕

My baby has a preference of which side she’ll drink from. I’ve notice when on the right boob, she tends to gag quite a bit and will either get frustrated refuse it completely or keep trying till she doesn’t gag anymore. When she refuses I just give her the left side and she’s completely fine, no gagging no struggles...

How long does it take your baby to finish a bottle of expressed breast milk? We introduced a bottle to our 5 week old earlier and he drank 3oz in about 5 minutes. Is it normal for them to drink so quickly? Bottle was pace fed with a size 0 teat.