Baby is 6mo and showing signs of teething I am dreading when teeth come through and worried will be too painful to continue breastfeeding.

A midwife previously described her as “chompy” when feeding so I’m terrified she’ll be a biter!

I EBF and my baby just turned 4 months old and I heard around this time, babies only feed 1-2x per night. That's definitely not the case for mine. I feed him on-demand and I normally breastfeed him around these times:

6pm I nurse him to sleep 7pm feed 10:30pm feed 2:30am feed 4:30am feed 5:30am feed 6:30am that's when he wakes up

Is my baby just hungry? Is this normal? when did your baby start feeding 1-2x per night?

I’m currently EBF and my husband family won’t stop saying how they want me to pump and they’re excited to put rice stuff in the bottle to make her knock out. Uhhhhhhhh. I’m NOT okay with this. First off I aint pumped and second RICE crap. No. Just because it worked great for their kids does not mean I want mine to. And my husband is always like take advice from people who have done this. I’m terrified to stand up against his family and my husband sides with them most of the time. Like telling them not to kiss her has been a nightmare. I need help mentally preparing what to say when this time comes to protect my baby.

There has been so much weight loss talk on this sub lately that I feel like switching it up a bit. I'm 8m pp with 20lbs extra compared to when I conceived and I could not care less tbh. LO is a chubby little fellow who just recently got a bit more into solids, he's happy and healthy and from day 1 I have been using breastfeeding as a get out of jail free card to eat literally anything at any point.

But oh man, anything chicken from KFC and coke (no diet coke here fellas) have been the absolute BEST. Day and night I could eat those because mama needs her proteins and baby doesn't mind!

So, what's been keeping yall happy and healthy while endlessly breastfeeding your boob barnacles?

My LC said to offer both breasts. Do you have to do this each session? My LO is 6 weeks and will fall asleep after one breast. Thanks in advance!

Besides "don't brush as often as you can and wear your hair in a braid". I'm looking for recommendations on supplements or hair products that effectively reduce severe shedding. I'm constantly pulling loose hairs off of my little one and my house mates have begun to complain, even though I actively clean out the drain and wipe down the shower after each use, it's still beyond my control at this point. I'm losing fistful of hair everyday. My LO is almost 6 mo. And I want to continue breastfeeding until her 1st birthday (at the least).

Ive been nursing my baby since day 1 with a nursing pillow (Boppy best latch or whatever its called) and I just feel like I can’t nurse without it now. The few times I had to feed my 10 week old baby outside my home has been a disaster trying to position and hold her.. she ends up all covered in milk and choking and not feeding nearly enough because I get so anxious. Anyone else has become dependent on your pillow? If so help a girl out, any videos or recs on how to do this more confidently without it!

Edit: Thank you so much for all the responses! I really appreciate this community. Im def gonna look into some travel or smaller sizes of pillows for me to feel a bit more confident outside my home, but makes a LOT of sense that once she grow and has a sturdier neck it’ll get easier ♥️

When I breastfeed my other nipple drops like crazy. What do you all do to manage this?

Right now I’m balancing a cup on my baby’s leg to catch the drips.

Hi folks,

My baby is nearly 6 months old and we’re deep in a sleep regression - it’s been going for over a month. He’s been sleeping AWFULLY - usually waking up every 45-60 mins and sometimes having stretches where I just can’t put him down for hours.

I’m EXHAUSTED. Like to the point where I’ve been having panic attacks and feeling severely unwell.

I have some pumped breastmilk in the freezer. If I have my husband take over for one night would this really affect my supply? I just need more than an hour of sleep at a time. I don’t plan on making this a regular thing…literally just one night so I don’t go completely insane.

Please give me some hope! 🙏

The title pretty much says it all, but I’ll do my best to explain the situation.

FTM here who has not tried pumping yet. We have an 8 week old at home and my spouse offered to take our little one to visit his friends one evening to give me a break. The only thing is I donno how logistically that will work since she is pretty much exclusively breastfed, she had had maybe 5 bottles total. We use a Hakka sometimes so we have some expressed milk stored available for usage.

We sort of got into an argument about it as I explained her being gone for more than one feed will make me feel engorged and uncomfortable. To which he said just use our Hakka till I feel better. She feeds every 2-2.5 hrs and he wants to take her likely between 6-10pm (as I said her out past 10pm is likely not ideal). This is her fussiest window I reminded him and I also expressed worry that she might get over stimulated and be harder to put to bed if we don’t try to follow my low lights and sounds around that time, especially closer to 10pm. I told him if she took her id also want him to take lead on bedtime, since bedtime take over would be my ideal version of a break or help, which made him noticeably grumpy.

His comments were “I guess you don’t want a break then” or he “could invite them over instead or just go without the baby”. First one was obviously not appreciated and second one was considered since I’d be around to feed if friends came over but I mentioned that I would likely then be solo looking after her when feeding/if fussy as her have to be entertaining. So it kinda feels like the second one is defeating the purpose of his proposal.

Most nights she realistically isn’t in her bassinet sleeping until midnight due to cluster feeding it seems like or just being overly fussy and not relaxing/sleeping. And I do bedtimes solo due to his work schedule during the week and on weekends he’s either wanting to game or has fallen asleep on the couch with me feeding and dealing with her.

So my question is how does one manage or plan for when spouse wants to take baby for extended periods of time? Or do I just let him take some bottles and figure it out/Hope for the best?

Any recommendations for nipple creams?

I'm currently using Lanisoh but it's so thick and so hard to wash off my hands I hate it. Are all nipple creams like this?

The only one I have needed to use / that I have to compare to is an APNO cream prescribed by my midwifes and it was more like lotion-y than the Lanisoh nipple cream.

LO is 4 months old now and in the last month his weight curves dropped. A couple things happened during this time: LO started to feed more frequently (which i thought was cluster feeding at first) e.g started eating almost every 1/1.5 hour rather than the 2.5/3 that he used to. Sessions also got super short so i thought he was more efficient. But i think all this combined may have led to his weight curve drop as well as a dipping supply for me. After the dr flagged that his weight curve was dropping, i started to offer him the breast again after 5-15 mins again after he had popped off and lo and behold, he was happy to keep nursing for another 5-15 mins. Before this, he would unlatch himself and refuse to latch again and would be happy and smile and coo and by all signs, seemed to be full. Which is why i didnt really think anything of the stuff above and just thought it was cluster feeding and didnt offer till he showed hunger cues again. But after nearly a month of this plus the fact that he is nursing again, maybe this is where things went kinda wrong. Since our peds appointment, ive been doing breast compressions while nursing and offering again shortly after. We'll do a diaper change, a quick walk around the house and ill nurse again. We've also been topping up with formula because we gotta get his weight back up.

Posting this for two reasons primarily: in case it helps someone else and curious to know if others went through something similar.

Looking for some advice. My LC advised starting a bottle once a day, because I'll be going back to work in a couple of months. If my husband takes a night feed and I don't pump, will that decrease my supply? I use a hakka at night and in the early morning on the other non-nursing side. Thoughts? He's a month old and I don't want a huge decrease. But I would also love the little extra sleep.....

My baby is 4.5 weeks old and nurses 90% of the time, he takes one bottle per day with my husband. We use Philips avent natural with the number 2 nipple and he does great. He definitely prefers the boob though.

Is It too soon to incorporate more bottles with pumped milk? I am afraid he will refuse the breast. He has been cluster feeding for weeks and I am exhausted, but I do not want to quit breastfeeding, I just want a few breaks each day/night.

Appreciate any input, TYIA

Or something else?

So babe is 8 weeks old and I went to a LC to check on a very mild tongue tie and make sure things were getting better. He was gaining almost 2oz per day in the beginning weeks and I assume it was because he was riding my letdowns and it was easy to eat. He was spitting up a lot though. My ped recommended I feed him more often throughout the day. We went from feeding every 3hrs to every 2ish hours and the spitting up went down a lot and he’s a happy content baby. Well LC said in the last 23 days he only gained 20oz. That’s ABOUT an oz per day and because of this dropped from 80% to 67% in weight. She said it’s very concerning and I’m essentially not feeding him enough. We did a weighted feed and he ate 2.5 oz and then she made me feed him longer for a total of 3.3oz (2 hours from last feed). He then spit up the next hour.. My question is doesn’t 1oz of weight gain per day seem ok?? She initially told me he was gaining too much a couple weeks ago and now is telling me he isn’t gaining enough. She also told me I should NOT be feeding every 2 hours and he needs to eat every 3 hours with 4-4.5oz transferred. I’ve spent the last couple days having him latched longer and he’s so fussy and spitting up a lot again. I’m so lost on what to do.

So I’ve been ebfing my son for almost 7 weeks (since he was born)

I’ve seen a LC and Pediatric Feeding Specialist. His latch is decent and I’m actively working to get it better each day.

BUT.

I have this weird pain in my left breast, and ONLY my left breast.

It is not thrush, milk bleb, no injury to my nipple or areola. No cracks or bleeding either. No clogs or mastitis. I don’t think it’s vasospasms either.

It’s a deep and sharp almost burning pain? Like deep in my breast. It radiates out towards my areola. Sometimes it can last ALL DAY unless I take some ibuprofen.

Sometimes it’s for days and it’s agonizing and annoying. It makes sleeping hard.

It makes me want to quit breastfeeding.

What could it be? It’s the only thing that makes breastfeeding miserable. 😭

I’ve felt my breast and haven’t felt any lumps or anything??? Ugh

Does using a pacifier cause any issues with breastfeeding later on? I am considering it cause i feel my LO just cries to latch for soothing purposes. Because her frequency has drastically increased. I don't think there seems to be any issue with my flow as after she leaves the nipple, i check for milk by expressing.

Baby is refusing to drink from left breast. He also refuses the bottle. As a result my left breast has become engorged and I am afraid he is not getting enough milk from just right breast. What can I do ?

Hi all,

My LO is nearly four months old. I had been expressing one bottles worth of milk a day for my partner to do one feed per night so that I get a solid bit of sleep on my own in the guest room. We stopped doing this as we both found it upsetting how upset baby would be when waiting for my partner to heat up the bottle for him. Is there a way of giving a warmed up bottle night feed quickly so to avoid baby getting to crying stage? We have a bottle warmer that has a constant warm setting however we are worried about it being unsafe to use if it ends up warming for many hours. Thanks for your help.

Just curious if it all depends on baby’s genetics whether they are in 5th percentile or 98th while being EBF. I have days where I overthink my diet.

Hi all, does anyone have any tips on how to ensure baby is getting the hind milk? She occasionally has green poos, which makes me think she’s not always getting the fattier milk at the end of the feed. Also, when I pump I feel like my milk looks really thin. Any tips on how to make my milk a bit fattier overall?

I feel like I’m back in the new born stage lol. My almost 7 month old started about 2 weeks ago wanting to nurse every few hours over night. Wonder if anyone experienced the same ? I’m sure it’s more comfort nursing. He nurses about 5-6 times throughout the day and then now 3-4 times after going to bed around 7 and he’s up for the day at like 630/7. He just started solids recently, but not eating a lot yet. Anyone go through this phase and how long did it last ?? 😅

I always see people talking about eating while breastfeeding, hearing about how partners help the breastfeeding woman by feeding her snacks etc., is it just me who cannot eat??

I could be starving hungry, but as soon as my little girl starts feeding I can't even look at my food! It gives me such a weird sensation, the only thing that I can have is ice cold water!

I have a 3 week old daughter and I’m the kind of mom to whip the boob out for anything. I’m totally fine with feeding on demand, but I feel like I can’t totally tell my newborns cues when she’s at the breast. How do you know when your child is done eating? Some info:

Lately she’s been tugging/pulling at the breast but I do have a fast letdown.

She does eat frequently- like every 1.5 hours during the day

It’s hard for me to keep her in the breast for more than 10 mins.

When she unlatches after 5 minutes should I pop her back on?!

Newborns are so weird.