Breastfeeding

Pumping Breast Milk: When and How Much Breast Milk Should You Pump?

Whether you’re breastfeeding, pumping or formula feeding, it takes time to figure out when and how much to feed your baby. If you're thinking about pumping or feeling a little...

breastfeeding

Pumping Breast Milk: When and How Much Breast Milk Should You Pump?

Whether you’re breastfeeding, pumping or formula feeding, it takes time to figure out when and how much to feed your baby. If you're thinking about pumping or feeling a little...

First aid for your boobs! Your guide to breast and nipple care

If you have been Breastfeeding for a while now, or are getting all your research in before baby arrives, you've likely heard of or experienced a number of common breastfeeding...

The First 24 Hours After Birth: What You Need to Know

You've had your baby! Hooray! However your birth unfolded, it's likely you're a combination of exhausted/exhilarated/sore/bewildered/in shock/excited/confused (and about a thousand other emotions!) While the actual 'birth' part it over,...

Surviving the Festive Season as a Breastfeeding Mum

While the predominant 'S' word of the festive season may be the big man in the red suit, there's another 'S' word that crops up regularly; stress. Yes, the holidays...

5 Expert Tips For Breastfeeding After a C-Section

Establishing breastfeeding after birth can take time, support and a whole heap of patience. For c-section mamas however, there may be a number of extra challenges to tackle. Fear not...

How to Manage an Oversupply of Breastmilk

Letdown with the strength of a firehose? Engorged boobies that seem to fill up in front of your eyes? Sounds like you may be dealing with an oversupply of breastmilk. Let's take...

Can Breastfeeding REALLY Cause Tooth Decay?

Breastfeeding and tooth decay. It's a controversial topic, especially for mamas who feed their little one to sleep or overnight and may have been told that doing so can lead...

5 AWESOME uses for Breastmilk (other than feeding your baby)

There’s a WHOLE heap of reasons why breastmilk is sometimes referred to as ‘liquid gold’. A living, constantly evolving fluid, breastmilk is jam packed with goodness that adapts to meet...

Lactation cookies and tea: do they help increase breastmilk supply?

When is a cookie not JUST a cookie? When it’s a bona-fide boobie filling lactation cookie, that’s when! As any mother will tell you, worrying about your breastmilk supply is...

That’s Not A Boob: Introducing a Bottle

Some babies (let's call them 'magical unicorns') will happily switch between breast and bottle with nary a whimper. So long as the milk is a-flowing, they'll be happy campers. We...

When Do You Wean?

I’m having very mixed emotions. I didn’t think I’d wean my daughter until she was 18 months old. I assumed it would be a smooth and natural progression that would...

Breastfeeding in Public: Life as an Exhibitionist

I think more people have seen my breasts in the last nine months than in my entire life previously. Here's what life is like when you're breastfeeding here, there and...