Breastfeeding Information

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Getting breastfeeding started

• Birth & breastfeeding
• Caesarean birth & breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding your baby – quick read
• Beginning breastfeeding
• Positioning & attachment
• Comfortable breastfeeding – quick read 
• Skin to skin
• Getting breastfeeding on track after a difficult start – the “three keeps”
• Twins and more
• Is my baby getting enough milk?
• Amazing milk
• Signs of effective feeding in the early days
• Support for transgender & non-binary parents

Life with a new baby

• Safer sleep and the breastfed baby
• Adjusting to motherhood
• Supporting a breastfeeding mother
• Out and about with your breastfed baby
• Rhythms and routines
• Dummies and breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding a premature baby
• Feeding a late preterm baby
• Fussy evenings with a newborn
• Breastfeeding at night

Common Concerns

• Allergies & Food Intolerances
• Antenatal expression of colostrum
• Engorged breasts – avoiding and treating
• Sleepy baby – why and what to do
• Jaundice in healthy newborns
• Mastitis
• Nipple confusion?
• Nipple pain
• Nipple shields
• Inverted nipples
• Tongue Tie
• The unhappy breastfed baby
• My baby won’t breastfeed
• When a mother is unwell
• Thrush and breastfeeding
  
• Reflux
• Nursing strikes
• What-happens-at-four-months
• Help! My baby bit me
• Teething
• Dealing with criticism
• What’s in a nappy?
• I think my baby’s got colic
• Breastfeeding and PCOS (story on LLLI site)

Milk Supply and Combi-Feeding

• How Milk Production works
• How to increase your milk supply
• My baby needs more milk
• Using donor milk and formula to support breastfeeding
• Bottles and other tools
• Nursing supplementers
• Weaning from supplements
• Oversupply
• Sharing Breastmilk

Milk Expression and Storage

• Expressing and storing milk
• Hand expression of breastmilk
• Exclusively expressing breastmilk for your baby
• Expressed milk and airlines

Family Foods

• Starting solid food
• Toddlers and food
• Breastfeeding and a mother’s diet: myths and facts

Working and separation

• Working and breastfeeding
• Workday practicalities
• When mum can’t be there
• If you leave your baby
• Legal rights on returning to paid employment

Breastfeeding an older baby

• Still nursing?
• Thinking of weaning
  
• Breastfeeding beyond a year
• Pregnant and breastfeeding?
• Tandem nursing
• After Weaning – What next?

Can I breastfeed if…?

• I smoke
• I want to drink alcohol
• I’ve got diabetes
• I’m doing jury service
• I’m called as a court witness

Other Topics

• Breastfeeding and autism
• When you’re unhappy about the care you and your baby received
• Breastfeeding and contact cases
• Breastfeeding at a swimming pool
• Breastfeeding beyond infancy
• When breastfeeding ends suddenly
• Relactation & induced lactation
  
• Breastfeeding in public spaces
• Breastfeeding and taking exams
• Breastfeeding in emergency situations
  
• Breastfeeding and dental health
  
• Holidays, celebrations and breastfeeding
• Five ways to help when breastfeeding doesn’t go as expected
• Smoking, vaping, cannabis and breastfeeding
  
• When you don’t enjoy breastfeeding
  
• When breastfeeding isn’t working
• Breastfeeding and coronavirus
• Covid-19 vaccines and breastfeeding