Category Archives: Advice & Tips

Parenting can be hard work, and pregnant mums and new mothers sometimes need a little bit of extra help from other mums who know what they’re going through. Breastmates has created a special resource section filled with tried and tested parenting tips, common-sense advice on pregnancy and motherhood, unbiased help with infant feeding, and expert answers to your most important questions. Being a mum is the most important job you’ll ever do, and Breastmates cares about helping you to enjoy being a mum without the stress.

Switching Breast and Bottle

Combining breastfeeding and bottle feeding is not always an easy task, baby's get fussy. Here

Returning to Work and Expressing

How to return to work and continue feeding baby, expressing and formula feeding. A few

Daily Routine for Bottle Feeding

Suggested daily routine for preparing bottles of formula. store them in the fridge ready for

What Teat Size to Choose for Bottle Feeding?

How to know what size teat to use when Bottle Feeding. What flowrate teat to

Night Time Weaning

When will baby start to sleep through the night? How long do i have to

How to Wean a Breastfed Baby

Weaning a breast-fed baby can be the ‘end of an era’, this article helps answer

How Long did you Breastfeed

A survey of mothers asking when they planned to wean their baby. Some great answers

Finger Food and Snacks

Snack food and finger food for toddlers.

Eight Month Baby Refusing Breast

Eight month old baby refuses breastfeeding but mum wants to continue. Expressing, bottle feeding, find

Dropping the Last Feed

Stopping breastfeeding and dropping the number of feeds, how to stop? A mother told us