Community Posts, Tips & Support on Breastfeeding

Hi Just wondering is it normal to get your period on the 5th month after giving birth and 5th month bleeding was alright and 6th month was just only one day and now it is 7th month and I haven’t gotten my period yet. My baby is exclusively breastfed 🧡

Hello, I look 12 month mat leave. My goal is to continue breastfeeding until baby is closer to 2 years old. However I will be returning to work when my baby is 13 months old. Is there anyone who continued breastfeeding after returning back to work after 12 months? How did you manage? We have communal workspace at w...

I’m bf my 7wk old and I feel like my milk supply is decreasing. I’ve noticed when I’m not full my baby is struggling to feed. She whales and cries when I’m BF her it’s on and off. So Im trying to pump but the issue I’m having is that when I pump before feeding her. By time she wants a feed my milk flow is really slo...

My LG 8 weeks exclusively breastfed, (she’s only had a handful of formula/expressed milk in bottles) since yesterday has just refused to feed and to latch on. I’ve given her bottles since and she’s been fine but it’s driving me mad. I don’t want to lose my milk supply and making a bottle is just super annoying durin...

I want to get a lift and implant I have one toddler and I do want one more child should I wait ?

I’m 11 days postpartum and really struggling to breastfeed. I struggled with my first baby too but I made it 4 months before switching to formula. My first wouldn’t latch without a nipple shield because of having flatter nipples. With my second baby, she was able to latch in the hospital and I was thrilled but it wa...

I just pumped (12am) and got Only 60ml. My daughter fed on me about an hour and half, to two hours before. She breastfeeds all day and only takes one bottle of formula at night and can usually take 120-150ml. Last few days I’ve been worried about supply hence why I stated pumping. She’s 10 weeks and I only pumped th...

I have given up pumping- altogether because I simply cannot pump the few times a day that's required and it just used to depress me . However I remember someone telling me that a baby draws out more then a pump ever could. But then people also say that the more you pump the more supply you have? Which is it exactly...

My 7 month old has currently been asleep 6 hours! 🤩 my boobs are massive and I feel like I need to pump but don't want to in case baby wakes up! He only usually sleeps 2 hours at a time! Shall I pump and risk not having milk there if he wakes up soon? Or wait till he wakes up and my supply might drop? Or shall I…

How long can bmilk be in the fridge for before it needs freezing? I ran out of bmilk bags so is in a bottle in the fridge as that's all I have. Do I have time to grab bags tomorrow late morning after I pumped about 11pm today or is this pump a binning one?

I'm pumping 4 oz each session and that's honestly not enough for me. I need to up my supply so my partner can bottle feed when I'm not available to feed our baby on tap Any tips on how to increase my supply? I tried the lactation cookies and lactation drinks as well as power pumping but I don't think it's working

I’m breastfeeding and only using that to prevent pregnancy. Curious to know if that method has failed anyone?

Really struggling to introduce an evening formula bottle to baby. I’ve been exclusively breastfeeding until 4 weeks when we introduced a bottle. We tried MaM which she hated and now on Lansinoh which she’s marginally better with. Using Hipp Organic. But she literally screams and cries. We have tried warming it ...

Hi All, FTM here! I have been advised to pump as my baby struggles to latch on one breast. I am finding the night pumps quite hard with all the cleaning and sanitising parts every time on top of breastfeeding. Is anyone else combi feeding? How do you do at night?

Hey ladies, so my baby is due in 4 weeks. I’ve had a really awful pregnancy so originally didn’t want to BF but I went to an antenatal class and now am swaying towards it because of the benefits. I don’t however want to exclusively BF as want baby’s dad to be able to help with night time feeds, and for baby to be fe...

Has anyone started their period yet? I'm not on any contraceptive but I have stopped breastfeeding two weeks ago and period hasn't returned! Little one is 6 and half months 🫣

Any recommendations moving from breastfeeding to bottle feeding mix. Baby girl is 2 weeks old and hates allll bottles (and pacifiers) more concerned about finding a bottle. She was also 3 weeks early. She took a bottle at the hospital but has started to hate them at home and only wants the boob. Have tried 6 differe...

Not sure if I have a clogged milk duct or mastitis

So I haven't been able to be at the breast. I've been pumping not long after I gave birth. And for the last week or so, I fell into a delay and a dip into some ppd. I'm still leaking but not pumping out as much as I used to or enough in my standards to count. Did I screw up with not keeping regular pumping in the la...

Hey, my daughter is just over 6months and I wondered what everyone else’s routine with feeding foods / water / breastfeeding is like? X