Did you know you should be measured and fitted for a flange size prior to pumping. This ensures you have the correct fit to help yield the most amount of milk. Inadequate flange sizes can cause trauma and impact milk supply. It is also advised to use a hospital grade pump when expressing which in the long term, saves you time and money. Pumping should not hurt. Women think that if they turn the settings up that this will make more milk. This is not the case and can cause tra

Yes, you heard right, the challenges of breastfeeding..... Everyone assumes that breastfeeding will be easy because its natural and we were built to do this, unfortunately this isn't the case for some women. Some problems are easy little fixes, like changing positions or getting a deeper latch which in the majority of cases is the problem. However, some more challenging things are vasospasm, engorgement, oversupply, low supply, trying to avoid recurrent mastitis which can le

Ideally dummies and bottles should be introduced after 6 weeks to fully establish breastfeeding. This allows your body to build and maintain the volume of breastmilk it is going to make, doesn't interfere with that bonding and feeding time in the first precious weeks of life and also doesn't confuse bub with different sucking skills in that time period, as babies use different facial muscles to feed on a bottle compared to the breast. Sometimes if a dummy is introduced early

Breastfeeding should always be done on demand. You CANNOT overfeed a breastfed baby, so boob boob boob! In the first few months of life, breastfeed babies should feed a minimum of 6 times in a 24hr period but can feed as many as 12-14 times a day. It is different for each dyad and completely normal! Some women will have a larger storage capacity than others, which in turn means the babies will get more milk at a feed compared to a woman who has a smaller storage capacity, bot