Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

Hi, I’m 37 weeks and looking for any tips/advice on harvesting colostrum?

Anyone have big boobs and find that they leak through their breastpads at night, any recommendations for breastpads apart from Lansinoh ??

My little one is 15 weeks and has been exclusively breastfed. I’ve been trying to get her to take a bottle of expressed breast milk in the hope I can have some me time! I’ve tried NUK & MAM bottles to no avail! Is there any teets or tips on how you got your baby to take the bottle? She never took a dummy either.

Hi ladies, so my baby is EBF and she’s 7 weeks old. She’s had 2 bottles of my milk since she’s been born just to test that she will take them but lately she’s refusing. I use the MAM bottles at the moment. Has anyone else tried different bottles and found one to be better than the other? I have a few things comi...

Last night, literally over night, my milk supply came in and my boobs slowly got harder and baby started struggling to latch as easily as he was. He’s also been a lot more keen to be on the boob. Any tips for managing just how firm and painful they are right now? Or how I can get him to latch more successfully

For EBF ones - do you find that your boobs are softer than before? If I wait long enough they will get hard and full again but I find that now that LO is 1 month old I think my breasts are not as full feeling as they used to? I read online that it could be because our milk supply is adjusting?

Anyone dealt with postpartum night sweats? I wake up every morning drenched in sweat. My newborn is 9 days old and my midwife told me this was hormonal caused by my milk coming in. How did you deal with it and did you take anything to help?

My baby is in the NICU and still has quite a tiny mouth at just 35 weeks (he was due 28 December). I started trying to feed him which works really well but yesterday my nipple had this excrutiating prickly pain that hasn't gone away. I tried warm cloths. I'm not sure if its cause he wasn't latched properly. I starte...

How do you deal with feeding once baby’s teething and have teeth. My baby is just starting to teethe, and one of my biggest fears with breastfeeding is getting bit. How can I stop her from biting while shes teething and once she has teeth?

What could u do to sooth my boobs, the past 2 days I’ve been leaking really bad and my nipples are swollen and red

Baby born 17:20 we got home 01:30 this morning Aprox. Second baby but first time EBF. I don't know how long I want to breast feed for but I do want to at least try. BG had a good latch in hospital but I did get some blistering in left side since getting home I have also got blistering on right side. I'm doing my bes...

Hey yall, i have this amazing mom friend who asked me if I could pump for her so her baby can have milk... she's sick and can't let her baby feed on her, I said yes because she's just the best, BUT I haven't pumped since my 3yr old was 6months old.. yes my baby is still breastfeeding, please do not judge me. But ho...

How many months PP were you when your supply started to significantly drop? 7.5m PP my supply dropped when I was sick (diarrhea) for a few days and didn't really come back. 9m PP next week and it's at its lowest. Total of 20oz pumped today. Last several weeks I was able to get 30oz a day. I've just come to the conc...

Is it okay to take emergen-C while breastfeeding? I have a cold right now and it’s what I’m taking to help get rid of it

I’ve been so engorged lately trying to find all of the right information on how not to overproduce milk and relieve this pain. There’s so much information out there. It’s easy to do the wrong thing. Luckily I’ve been speaking to a bunch of lactation consultants, Feeling a lot better today. Hopefully it’s only up fro...

Hi! I have a 3mo and am really having trouble with pumping. He never latched in the beginning (even worked with a lactation consultant) and I decided to pump. Well, my LO had a Cows Milk Protein Allergy rash (and other symptoms) so I took some time off of pumping and we switched him to a different formula to supplem...

Hi, I usual pump between 34 and 44 ounces per day. I’ve been sick this back week (baby has bronchiolitis) and I’m in the follicular phase in my cycle, where I usually see a very small drop. Usually from 40+ to about 36/38. I have one pump left today and I have only pumped 24 ounces :( yesterday was 32 for the whole...

My 1 week old tends to choke on a bottle if the nipple is filled with too much milk (the nipple is a level 1). My husband is moves super slow to pat her back and it drives me crazy. He just looks at her and slowly puts her on his chest. Sometime I want to yell at him to move faster or just don’t allow him to feed h...

Little one is almost 10 months. He is strictly breast-fed. Bottles were introduced in the beginning, but stopped due to complications that we thought the bottles were causing. They were not introduced again, though after the complications were resolved. He will not take a pacifier or a bottle. He just chews on them....

Hi First time mum and trying so hard to express as much as possible, our little man is currently still in NICU due to C section at 33 weeks, initially my volume of milk was good, however the last 2 days there has been a reduction. Little man working hard with latching and suckling. Looking for any advice or guidan...