Advice & Tips / Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding Help
Support with common questions and concerns about breastfeeding. Establishing breastfeeding can be challenging but is ultimately rewarding for both mother and baby. Here is expert advice on breastfeeding and answers to your common questions. Or email us with your q’s
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Baby Rejecting Breast
Is your baby on a nursing strike? Is he fussing at the breast, refusing to latch properly, or rejecting breastfeeding outright? What to do?! If your little one is rejecting the breast and you want to continue breastfeeding, here are some ideas for how to keep persevere through a nursing strike.
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Breast Milk Supply
Worried about your milk supply? Not enough or too much milk for your baby? Is your baby super hungry and you want to try to make more milk? Or are your breasts engorged and you have too much milk? Practical, supportive advice and answers to common questions about breast milk supply and what to do if you want to increase your milk supply.
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Breastfeeding Videos
Our helpful breastfeeding videos will show you how to breastfeed with success. Sometimes seeing someone else breastfeed is the best way to understand how it all works! Our collection of breastfeeding videos will show you successful latching, infant feeding, and how to establish breastfeeding, as well as how to use a breast pump
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Lactation Consultants
Find a lactation consultant near you. Are you experiencing issues with feeding and want some expert advice, in real life? Our lactation consultant directory will help you to find a lactation consultant near you to provide compassionate, expert advice on every aspect of breastfeeding.
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Mastitis
What is mastitis, how do you know if you have it? When you have a breast infection like mastitis, it’s important to identify and seek treatment early. Here is what you need to know about identifying & preventing mastitis, soothing the soreness, and continuing breastfeeding while mastitis is being treated by a doctor.
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Nipple Care and Engorgement
How to protect and care for your nipples to ensure pain-free breastfeeding. Your nipples are the “gateway” to your baby’s food source. Here’s how to protect and care for your nipples before and during breastfeeding, especially in the early days when breastfeeding may be a little bit painful. The goal is to feed your baby without pain, and our tips will help you to do just that.
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Relactation
What to do if you want to restart breastfeeding, or induce lactation. If you’ve stopped breastfeeding and want to try to get started again, or you’re thinking of inducing lactation so you can feed an adopted baby, know that it can be done. With dedication and the right advice, you can re-establish breastfeeding and successfully relactate.
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Tandem Feeding
Breastfeeding twins and tandem-feeding a newborn and older sibling. Yes, you can breastfeed more than one baby at a time! Here is useful advice and information, or share your story with us
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Tube Feeding
If you’re tube feeding your baby we want to send you all the good vibes possible. Here are some articles and support from other parents that are tube feeding. Or if you have a story please share it with us
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