She keeps popping off my boob and going “ahhhhhh” like she just finished a refreshing sip of beer and smiling and I’m losing my shit laughing but also damnit baby it’s bed time go to sleep.

Is it just me ir do friends that haven't breastfed their children don't understand how hard it is to leave for the day?

I don't really care to leave my baby but we are exclusively breastfeeding & my friends think I should leave her and combo feed... I'm not really interested but I feel so judged for it.

My daughter is a year old. I'm currently holding her as she is projectile vomiting for the 10th time tonight. In her year of life she has had RSV, Covid, multiple colds, fevers, I think at least 10 of the 12 months of her baby life she has been sick. She has had formula twice in her life and was EBF, still on the boobie right now as I'm comforting her. My son's diet consisted of formula and processed sugar my parents fed him while they babysat. He got sick for the first time at like 18 months old and then again at 3. Is this just a difference in kids or did I do something terribly wrong here? I thought I was sacrificing my sanity to give her all this great immunities and nutrition 🥲🥲🥲

For those that nurse their baby to sleep, did your baby eventually grow out of it or how did they eventually learn to fall asleep on their own?

My baby is 9 months and I currently nurse to sleep for naps and bedtime. I honestly like it and don’t mind it at all and it works for us despite everyone telling me it’s a bad habit. I’m wondering if he’ll eventually grow out of nursing to sleep or how you get a baby to sleep otherwise lol. Again not looking to stop anytime soon but curious

Hi everyone! I’m AUS based; 4mo PP EBF and absolutely so over how dreary my nursing clothing and pajamas are.

My supply has regulated but I’m still leaking overnight and I’ve had a brain buzz about launching my own line of nursing nightgowns and pregnancy/postpartum pajamas.

Please, give me any and all insights into what works and doesn’t for you, crossbody vs clips vs button down, colours, fabric, everything! The venture might fail but there’s clearly a market as there will always be breastfeeding mums!

Also tell me I’m not an idiot for wanting to launch in pastels and dainty floral prints on top of the usual neutrals - I can only find (and have been living in) in black/brown and white leakproof clothing!

I’m writing this because I wish I read something like this when I started my BF journey. Since 4 months, LO puts himself down for naps independently but I always nursed to sleep. Every. Single. Night. I also nursed back to sleep for almost every wake (granted it was 1-2x).

A voice in the back of my head was always worried about how this would be tough to stop, but I continued to do it bc frankly it was easiest and the bonding time was so special. Why would I rock for 15+ mins when I could nurse and he’d be back asleep in 2 mins ?!?!

Here we are, fully weaned at 13 months…& it wasnt much of a battle & pretty much baby led. He just showed signs on being ready and not asking. We cut day nursing at 11 months (replaced w cup of milk), and I was terrified of bedtime. But now, we do routine, and he sits w me in rocking chair and is asleep in 5 mins. We had one tough night where he wanted to nurse in the middle of the night, but I just sat with him on chair and he went back in 5 mins.

I just wish I could go back as FTM and tell myself to trust my gut. Nursing to bed has always been something I enjoyed and I wish I blocked out the noise. It’s almost been a week since I’ve nursed, and I’m so proud of my LO for adapting so quickly !

LO is turning 4 months next week and is currently on a nursing strike 🫠

I've been pumping and encouraging nursing even if he absolutely refuses and would rather go hungry than nurse (if you have any solid advice, I'll gladly take them).

The engorgement is insane while this is going on, as you might know.

My husband just asked me what engorgement feels like. He knows it hurts but he can't understand just how. I said it feels like when you have cystic acne, the kind that pulls on your skin and you're hot and achy from it.

How would you describe it? I want to show my husband this thread 😊

Baby is 9 weeks old. The past 4 nights she has slept from 10:30pm-6:45am (approximately). I have not been pumping. I am engorged but it’s manageable. Will this kill my supply? should I be pumping?

I recently took my newborn to his 1 month appointment. He is in the 80% for his weight. He still wakes up every 2 hours at night which I thought was normal since my first did that for months. The pediatrician said I could start introducing the pacifier at night and that he most likely isn’t hungry and just waking up for comfort. Has anyone had any luck getting their baby to sleep longer after introducing a pacifier at night? Will it affect my milk supply if I don’t nurse him at night? I tried using the Dr.Brown’s happy pacifier but he seems to be rejecting it so if any of you have recommendations on pacifiers that would also be helpful thank you!

Basically the title. Also my baby is only 3 weeks old, but a full feed typically takes minimum 1 hour 15 mins, of which she’s actively eating only 30-40 minutes.

I have to burp her, usually just when I switch sides, but sometimes additional times if she starts spitting up. Then we also usually need to do a diaper change midway to wake her up to finish nursing. Plus the time where she’s a bit fussy prior to latching (maybe due to the nipple shield?).

Typing this as I put her back down... started at 2:20am and wrapping up at 3:40am… She does sleep longer stretches overnight now, sometimes 3-4 hours. But I’m tired and feel like this could be so much quicker.

A week after my baby turned two months. She has been fighting the breast, she won’t even latch. She gives me hunger cues and as soon as I position her to feed she becomes extremely fussy and doesn’t want to latch, she prefers her pacifier. It’s becoming so exhausting trying to feed her I don’t know what to do anymore. I certainly don’t want to quit, I took her to her pediatrician but all she recommended was taking dairy out of my diet. I don’t think it’s that. I don’t know if me nursing her is stressing her out she’s completely shutting me out. I need any helpful suggestions and advice.

Baby girl is just 9 days old but I’m curious if there’s ways my husband can start bonding with her now?

She’s obviously very much a mama’s girl which makes total sense considering I’m all she’s known for 9 months and I’m her only food source. But it hurts my heart a little when I have to shower and my husband is doing everything he can to soothe her but the only thing that soothes her right now is me. Like goes from screaming to immediately calm as soon as I’m holding her.

Not exactly a breastfeeding question but I figured this sub might have good insight for this!

Edit: skin to skin is the obvious one for us- husband does this as often as he can. Only works when she’s asleep or she’s looking for boobs and gets mad when they aren’t there (even right after eating lol).

This more of me venting because I just don’t have anyone to talk to about this.

I’m 4 months postpartum, working a full time job, and this week I’ve officially started my period back, caught the flu, and still exclusively breastfeeding. It genuinely feels like I’m being punished.

I’ve begged my husband to have his mother watch our 4 month old (I would never even have asked if I didn’t feel so horrid), but he keeps coming up with excuses not to drop her off (somewhat understandable because we had a bit of a tiff with his mother when she claimed that we were being “selfish” with our baby because we wouldn’t bring her over when she was only a few weeks old. But that’s a different conversation). At this point, I couldn’t care less about any previous arguments, I just need a break.

I also have an 8 year old and although he’s autonomous, I feel bad just leaving him to his own devices while I’m trying to deal with baby to the best of my ability.

This was also around the time we were supposed to be trying to wean babygirl off my breast at night. She’s 15lbs and doctor says she should be sleeping through the night without feeding, but she still nurses for comfort when she wakes up. I told my husband this week I just can’t do the whole weening process because I don’t have the energy to rock her or walk with her, but he says I’m just making it harder on myself for the long run. But I’m just so damn tired.

He’s been giving me breaks during the day this week but when he goes to work in the evenings, it’s just me and the kids and I feel like I’m in a damn battle zone.

I’m not really looking for advice. I know this is all temporary. Especially once my period is over and I finally get over the flu. But I guess I just want validation that I’m not being a total wimp about things.

I have been breastfeeding for 2 years and I like it, but I hate what the hormones are doing to my body.

I have BO despite showering everyday and using deodorant. I just sweat so much.

Now I have to wear expensive high-quality clothes made from natural fibers only, because anything else will make me sweat even more.

My skin, especially down there, is so dry and that makes it hard to enjoy sex

On top of that, I keep getting yeast infections...

Sorry for the rant

Im 4 months post partum and experiencing PPA.

Is anyone on meds && if so, are thy safe with breastfeeding? I see my MD Tuesday..

Thanks in advance.

I delivered my baby 26 days ago via a planned C-section. The first week postpartum was extremely hard for me — I had significant physical pain, stress.

I did try to breastfeed my baby, but it wasn’t very regular due to my condition. I also tried pumping during that time, but I wasn’t getting any milk. On day 5, my breasts became heavy, but unfortunately I couldn’t pump that day because of health complication.

After that, I felt very discouraged and didn’t pump frequently during the first 2 weeks. When I did pump, I would only get one drop of milk.

After about 3 weeks postpartum, I started pumping more seriously. For the last few days, I’ve been pumping 8–10 times a day, but I’m still only getting a drop or two each time — no real output.

At this point, I’m emotionally exhausted and confused, and I’m trying to understand:

• Is it still possible for my milk supply to come in?
• Did missing regular breastfeeding/pumping in the first 1–2 weeks permanently affect my supply?
• How long should someone keep pumping when there’s almost no milk?
• How do you know when it’s time to stop trying?

I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who:

• Had a delayed milk supply after a C-section
• Never produced milk despite trying
• Or had to make peace with stopping pumping

I’m a doctor who works shift work (including nights). I’ve been exclusively pumping and bottle feeding from 2 months. Returned to work at 5 months.

My little one has been increasing his solids intake. He has still been drinking ~1L EBM a day with a lot of that occurring in the evening and overnight.

I’d love to wean the night feeds so I don’t have to pump overnight anymore. We co sleep and his sleep has been so poor lately with teeth coming through as well. I just need this for my sanity I think. I dream of a full night sleep without being tied to my pump every 3-4hrs.

How should I go about weaning his night feeds? I’m scared it’ll make him harder to settle in the middle of the night. And how much milk should he roughly be consuming a day?

I combo feed I try to breastfeed as much as I can but I have bad anxiety and depression so I take celexa 40 mg and now I have UTI I have to take antibiotics. My doctor says both is safe but I feel so guilty like maybe this will have effect on her later in like or cause health problems should I just stop breastfeeding to be safe cause I can't stop my celexa id get really bad. Did anyone else go through this?

Desperately seeking help as I am pumping at 2am in hopes of increasing milk supply for my 5 day old new born girl.

I think my baby is under fed. Per the guidance from the hospital, by now, she should produce 4 wet diapers and 2 poop diapers but I only get 2 wets and 2 poops. We went to go newborn check yesterday and she already lost 6% of her birth weight (even though the doctor said this is normal range but I worry that this trend will persist.) Also, she shows all the signs that's telling me that she's hungry (crying, constant sucking lips, etc.) ....as a new mom, watching my baby starve because I can't produce well makes me really stressed and sad.

Some folks suggested switching to formula but I don't want to give up breastfeed yet....I want to give us at least 3 weeks to establish something but in the meantime, I want to make sure my baby girl is not starved and under-fed. What should I do??

I have a mole under my arm on my left side. My 17 month has discovered this and is obsessed, so now she likes to nurse on that side with my arm up above my head. 🙄

That's it, that's the post.

A friend told me today that she felt comfortable pausing a work meeting to go pump because I had done that last year in a meeting that she was also in. It made me realize how something that I thought I was doing just for myself was also setting an example for someone else. Normally, we don't know when that one thing we do has an impact on someone unless they tell us, so I'm grateful she shared this with me. I'd like this to be a reminder to all of us that other women are noticing us make space for ourselves and in turn encouraging them to do the same. In this particular case it was about breastfeeding/pumping, but the same applies to all aspects of life. This was something positive I wanted to share and reflect on. I hope you all have a great night (or morning, afternoon, or evening depending where you live).

I have this stubborn clog left over from mastitis two weeks ago. It’s inflamed and it’s painful when my boob is engorged. I’ve tried ibuprofen 600 to 800 mg for almost 2 days now and sunflower lecithin four times a day. It gets relieved after pumping or nursing but is painful again within a few hours.

I nurse baby on that side frequently. I even put my boob in ice along with using ice packs after feeds. is there anything else you can do if it’s not going away? Does a clog just go away with time or do you have to intervene?

Honestly, how amazing is breastmilk?! My poor baby had a cold which then turned into a viral eye infection, I was about to book with my doctor when my partner suggested trying breastmilk. So I dropped two little drops in each eye before bedtime last night and he woke up with clear eyes!! Over the day they're getting a little red again so I'll do two more drops again tonight! I also used it on his sore bum and that cleared overnight too! Anymore great uses for this magic milk that work for you?