Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

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CMPA

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!

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Milk provided at City Hospital

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...

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Stopping breastfeeding

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...

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Breastfeeding

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..

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Breast pumps

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?

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Pump recommendations

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!

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Congestion tablets while breastfeeding

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

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Cluster feeding 🥱😬

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…

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Weight loss vs breast feeding

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...

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silver nipple covers

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.

Incognito
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Bottles

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...

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Pain during Breastfeeding

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...

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Milk Production

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

Incognito
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Cows milk

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

Incognito
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Won’t latch anymore

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.

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Cluster feeding

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

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Does everyone’s baby have a preference of boob?

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...

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Expressed milk

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.

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Bottles and pacifiers

Breastfeeding mamas what bottles and pacifiers did you prefer??

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In need of breast milk

Anybody got extra for my almost 2 months old daughter I’m not producing enough.. please and thank you

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