Breastfeeding hints and tips

• Bring your baby to your breast, not your breast to your baby.
• Remember your baby’s feeding position: chin to breast and nose to nipple.
• Eat and drink plenty and regularly.
• Accept all offers of help in the early weeks so you can devote yourself to establishing breastfeeding.
• Avoid sore nipples by making sure your baby latches on properly.
• Top-up feeds shouldn’t be necessary.
• Be confident in your ability to feed your baby. You can do it.
• Expressing and storing some breast milk can give you more flexibility and freedom.
• Enjoy this special warmth, closeness and bonding time with your baby – even if it does seem to take up all your time at first!
• Feeding on demand ensures a good supply of breast milk.
• It’s very rare not to have enough milk.
• Your milk is a unique and perfect food – after all, nature intends babies to be fed this way.
• Going back to work doesn’t have to mean the end of breastfeeding.

Always seek prompt medical attention if :

• Your baby seems unusually sleepy and /or refuses feeds
• Your baby seems unusually unsettled and is crying more than usual.
• You feel flu-like, hot, cold, aching or generally unwell.
• You have any redness, tenderness or lumpiness in your breasts.

“Every day you breastfeed is a day well spent, so pat yourself on the back and carry on”