Baby seems hungry  Hi Liz-

Claire is 3 days old and i have the feeling that my colostrum isn't filling her up. I'm up to almost 30 minutes on each breast and she still ...

Brestfeeding 4 week old can I get pregnant  Hi there, I have a 4 week old and I am exclusivly brestfeeding what are the chances of getting pregnant?

Answer from the lactation consultant

If ...

Bottle feeding when I return to work  Hello,

My daughter is 8 weeks old and I am returning to work next week. She is not happy taking a bottle of my breast milk and I wondered if you had ...

Is it too late to breastfeed my baby?  my baby is 2 months old and i feed her formula but now i want to breastfeed and i wanted to know if its possibe?? i hope it is. i tried latching her on ...

Finding a Lactation Consultant  When looking for a lactation consultant, what should I be looking for and what questions should I be asking her? Is there a questionnaire that I can download ...

breastfeeding for 1st time and son is 7 mos.  I was just wondering if you can breastfeed even though you have never did so or I was thinking maybe if i could pump and then give it to him in a bottle....

How long before hormones return to "normal" after weaning?  I'm in the process of weaning my son (it's been 48 hours since his last night feed) and wonder how long it takes for my hormones to go back to the levels ...

Breast milk supply getting low after having gallbladder removed  Hi I Just had my gallbladder removed two days ago and now that Ive been in so much pain and can't hold or put my baby on my stomach and I am noticing my ...

Possible to go back to breastfeeding?  I have a soon to be 7 month old who was put on the bottle against my wishes at 4 1/2 months. He (hopefully) will soon be home and I want to know if it ...

Bad latch?  Hi Liz,

My partner and I took your class recently at North Hills Hospital. I just delivered my baby girl last thursday and I am having some pain while ...

Why are my nipples sore?  I have been breastfeeding for a week now while my baby seems to be getting enough and latching on but My nipples have become very sore and are now painful ...

Blood in son's stool  My son started having blood in his stool around 2 mos. of age (this happened with my daughter too). He is exclusively breastfed. I was advised to cut ...

Refuses bottles  Hi Liz,
My baby is now 5 1/2 months old. Over the summer, my schedule has been such that I have not needed to use a bottle, as I am pretty much always ...

Nursing Strike  I have a 8 month old daughter and we are entering Day 4 of a nursing strike. I have done everything and nothing is breaking it. She did bite me causing ...

Breastfeeding and working  Hello,

I am a first time mother and I am breastfeeding my little one. My baby is 3 months now and I will begin working soon. I want to continue breastfeeding ...

Plugged Ducts or Mastitis  Hello,

I have a question regarding Mastitis and (or) plugged ducts.

When I was pregnant with my first child ( he is 2 now), I think I've experienced ...

Whether or not to supplement with formula  My son is 11 months old and I have been BF at home and pumping at work. For the last month, I have had supply issues off and on (he drinks more at daycare ...

Lumps in breasts  I have some lumps that are not painful in breast. Are these normal while breastfeeding?
Answer from the lactation consultant
I would not say they ...

shift work, sleeping through the night and engorgement  I have a very healthy (and chubby!) four month old that is exclusively breastfed. I have returned to work and am doing ok for the most part with pumping ...

Baby only nurses on one side  Hello,
I have a 3 week old little girl who was seemingly nursing well on both my left and right breast; however when my milk came in it was abundant ...

Breastfeeding a 10 month old  I have two concerns -

1. I want to make sure my baby is getting enough breastmilk since I understand that is the most important thing until one year....

Breast Pain/Nursing strike  I have an eleven week old girl whom I exclusively breast feed. For the past few weeks though she has been rejecting my breasts. It started after her two ...

birth control and breastfeeding  Is it safe to take birth control while breastfeeding? Does this include emergency contraceptive or plan b?
Answer from the lactation consultant
This ...

White poo  My daughter will be 4 months on 20/5. She recently seems to be peeing less and the last two weeks she has only put on 60-80g each week. Today she did a ...

Still have milk 2 years after weaning?  Hello,
My name is Nichole I just turned 30 on April 9th. I have 4 children a 13 year old boy who I breast fed for 8 months with the formula suplement ...

Supplements to boost your supply.  I'm really trying to get this breast feeding thing down. I'm a first time mother and my baby was in the hospital for the first 3 weeks which kind of had ...

Overactive Letdown  Hi,

I've given birth to a healthy boy 8 weeks ago. I've been struggling with breastfeeding a bit in the last two months because I have a overactive ...

2 week old won't sleep at night  My 2 1/2 week old has been doing very well breastfeeding since he was born and has already surpassed his birth weight by quite a bit. He eats every 2 1/...

how to increase milk production  I am 27yrs old mom, i have 3months old baby girl. from 1 1/2 month i have started top feed (lactogen). But now a days even if iam at home, my milk is not ...

LOW MILK SUPPLY  since two weeks ago my milk supply has been decreased and i don't know why and i took every thing i am pumping every 2 hours and i am drinking lots of ...

Fenugreek dosage for low milk supply  Hi, my baby is one month old and I feel the need to increase my milk supply. I know he is getting enough but when I go to pump, I can barely get an ounce....

Stressed mom= no breastmilk?   Hi my daughter, Emma is 6 months old and she was born 5 weeks premature. I had to pump for her first 2 months because she couldn't latch on. Then she was ...

Sleepy baby - does not want to nurse  Hi,

My baby is a very sleepy baby and I try to keep him up by undressing him however he still falls asleep. Lately he only wants one breast and feeds ...

breastfeeding issues - 2.5 month old  Hi,

I am the mother of a 2 and a half month old baby. Ever since I got pregnant I wanted to exclusively breastfeed my baby. However I was unaware of ...

Is newborns weight gain enough?  My baby girl weighed 9 lbs 12 oz full term. She went down to 9 lbs 4 oz at her lowest in the first week. At 3 weeks she was back to her birth weight....

Trouble with latch - sore nipples  Hello,

I am currently breastfeeding my two week old and I am running into a few problems. I am having a hard time with him latching on correctly. It ...

Overactive letdown or bad positioning?  My 2 week old sometimes has trouble nursing, most often at night. She will cry and seem to want to nurse but may not latch but just plays w/ the nipple ...

Nutritional Value of Breastnilk After a Year  Does breast milk lose its nutritional value after the first year of nursing?
Answer from the lactation consultant
Great question and Absolutely ...

Breastfeeding and Pumping  Let's say I go shopping for the day and I leave my baby home with my husband with pumped breast milk. What do I do with the milk supply that is coming ...

Breastfeeding after gall bladder surgery  My baby is 2 1/2 months old and breastfeeding is going great. My concern is, I had my gall bladder removed on 12/28 and have had diarrhea ever since. I ...

Not comfortable with baby nursing at the breast  I hate the way it feels to breastfeed but i want to do whats best for my baby...
is there anything i can do?
I have been pumping but I am afraid that ...

Back to Work: Feeding Routine  I would to know how to establish a feeding routine for my baby, as I have just gotten back to work today.

He is two months and a week old, and I have ...

5 month old reverse cycling  My EBF 5 month old has recently gone from sleeping 5-6 hours at night to now waking and nursing every 3 hours at night. I've been back to work for 2 months ...

Raw sore nipples  It started last week right at Christmas I would feed my daughther and it would feel like she was pinching me. I would pull her off any try again but it ...

Newborn wants to sleep through the night...  Hi and thank you for this resource!
I am now breastfeeding my second child who is a week and a couple days old. Its been different in the sense that he ...

Positions for small breasted women 

Do you have an opinion on the best nursing positions for small-breasted women? I have trouble with the side-lying position...it's like I don't have ...

Does breastfeeding have to be all or nothing? part 2  You suggestion made a lot of sense. I started trying it and we somewhat have schedule now. I nurse at 2 am, bottle at 6am, then nurse 9-10 am, bottle around ...

Lumpy breasts after weaning  Hi,
I weaned my 18 month old about 6 days ago and I still have lumpy hard areas in my breasts. I don't want to develop an infection so I wanted to see ...

Low Milk Supply, cont'd  I have had low supply from the start. Even with pumping and nursing around the clock for 15 weeks. I would pump and get less than an oz after 30 minutes....

Food Allergies and breastfeeding  I am currently breast feeding. I was told to stay away from eating all seafood (including fish) since my husband is allergic to fish and seafood and it ...

I have a cold is Benedryl Ok while breastfeeding?  My son is three weeks old and we already had a strike last week when he started refusing to nurse after being given a bottle.We are still getting back ...

Low Milk Supply  I am suffering from low milk supply. I started back to work last week and since then I have seen a drastic drop. I have restrictions getting to pump at ...

Does breastfeeding have to be all or nothing?  My 3rd baby was born on october 1st and is my first boy. I started to breastfeed him right away. After 2 weeks I went to see a lactation specialist in ...

Breast Pain  I have a 9 month old daughter that I have breastfed since birth. I am experiencing crazy pain after feedings - its intermittent, doesn't happen with every ...

Too many bottles? Sore nipples, low supply  I am a 37-year-old first-time mom of an 8 week old baby girl. I began breastfeeding immediately after delivering her and began to have what I think are ...

Why does my expressed milk look watery sometimes and thick sometimes?  Why dose my milk sometimes looks watered down and other times thick?

Answer from Liz, RN, IBCLC

The milk in your breasts varies in the amount ...

Thrush or what?  I was wondering if this sounds like thrush. I am now on day 10 of pumping and bottle feeding trying to get my nipples to heal as they were severely cracked ...