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Breastfeeding and coronavirus

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
• Is my baby getting enough milk?
• Amazing milk, best for everyone
• 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

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
• Bottles and other tools
• Breastfeeding and PCOS (story on LLLI site)

Milk supply issues

• My baby needs more milk
• Too much milk and oversupply
• Nursing supplementers
  
• Sharing Breastmilk
• Formula supplements

Milk expression and storage

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

Family Foods

• Starting solid food
• Toddlers and food

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

Issues

• 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 andbreastfeeding
• 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 Today (LLLI)

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Please note: The breastfeeding information on this website has been put together by La Leche League Leaders, who are accredited by La Leche League to provide breastfeeding information. Please note that Leaders have a wide knowledge and experience of breastfeeding but are not medically trained. If you have a medical query, or are concerned about your health or the health of your child please consult your doctor.

Information, references and links on this website are taken from La Leche League resources, unless stated otherwise. Please note that La Leche League GB does not endorse information from outside sources, extra information is provided for you to consider.

Information supplied is not intended as advice. You are in the best position to make a decision as to how the information offered will affect you and your baby.