Motherhood Stories

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...

Brooke's Story: Juggling motherhood with business

Hello Brooke! It’s so great to catch up. I know that this past year has been quite challenging in terms of Indi’s growth spurts, ending your breastfeeding journey, starting daycare...

Celebrating Milkbar Mama's this Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a time to honour and celebrate the extraordinary love, sacrifice, and devotion that mothers embody. Motherhood knows no boundaries, and it encompasses a beautiful tapestry of diverse...

Courtney's Story: Challenges, persistence, determination and love

In this Milkbar Mama interview I speak with Courtney about her different experience feeding her 2 sons, and the importance of support and normalising breastfeeding.

Sian's Story: The joys and challenges of breastfeeding for the first time

In this Milkbar Mama interview I speak with Sian as she reflects on the joys and challenges of breastfeeding her first child, Hazel.

Emily's Story: Breastfeeding and the importance of a supportive village

In this Milkbar Mama interview I spoke with Emily, a lovely first-time-mother who feels so thankful for the village she had supporting her through her breastfeeding and motherhood journey.

Marizela's Story: Breastfeeding for the first time

In this Milkbar Mama I chat with Marizela about her experience and preparation for breastfeeding for the first time.

Danielle's Story: Reflections on exclusive pumping and looking forward

In this Milkbar Mama interview we catch up with Danielle who runs an Instagram page and support network for exclusively pumping mums in Australia called @to.the.pump.and.back. We also catch up...

Grace's Story: Breastfeeding, Nursing and The Mother Hood Project

In this Milkbar Mama interview we speak with Grace, a Melbourne based nurse and mum of 2 beautiful girls; Maeve who just turned 1 and Audrey who is soon to turn...

Chadé's Story: Birth and Breastfeeding During COVID

There are a bunch of challenges that we accept when it comes to pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. Up until 2020 however, a pandemic which would literally shut down the world,...

Mary Kate's Story: Breastfeeding after a tough labour and birth

As a Child and Family Health Nurse and the second youngest of a large family all of whom were breastfed, Mary-Kate always intended to breastfeed her first child. A very...

Laura's Story: From struggling to success with baby #4

Welcome back to our 'Milkbar Mamas' series where we speak to women all over Australia about how breastfeeding unfolded for them because nothing #normalisesbreastfeeding more than writing, speaking and sharing...

Kristen's story: Breastfeeding Through ALL The Challenges

Alex's story: Breastfeeding For The First Time

Here at Milkbar we LOVE sharing breastfeeding stories and hearing from our online community about their own experiences. Which is why we're starting a brand new series of blogs where...

PANDA Week - My experience with PND, Anxiety and Postpartum OCD

The transition to parenthood, even when it's something that you want more than anything, can be rocky. While many anticipate the intensity, the sleep deprivation, and the time it takes...

Motherhood: One Year Later

New Year is often the time to take stock of your life, make resolutions for the coming twelve months and celebrate the past year. I was shopping for decorations today,...

The Birth of a Mother

Every mother’s experience of pregnancy, birth, feeding and parenthood is completely different and there is such a vast range of ‘normal’. We aim to support all mums across all their experiences,...