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Breastfeeding Information
Laid Back Breastfeeding
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Working and Breastfeeding
Includes information on pumping
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Safe Sleep Leaflet
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Click on the headings below to get online information
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
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…?
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
