The first few drops are GOLD pls do let your newborn latch on cos that's colostrum.

I tried breastcrawl as soon as I delivered my baby. Basically that's how you put your baby near your breast to let him or her get used to the smell and be able to find his or her way to mommy's nipple. Once he's there it ll be his instinct to latch on. This will encourage direct feeding.

Don't worry that your baby won't feel enough even though there's no milk. Colostrum should be sufficient to provide him or her with nutrition. Before you go on labour your breasts are already filled with colostrum (to prepare your journey to breastfeeding). You can try squeeze it out from your nipple around 37 weeks. It's yellowish and not milky at all.

When you're in the hospital, you can opt for fully BF or mix with formula. If you choose the later, it only means you get to rest more to recuperate. Nurses would feed by using syringes so that won't create nipple confusion or stop your bb from wanting breast milk. In whatever situation you won't have to bring your breast pump. I'd say direct feeding is the best kind of feeding.

Direct feeding (in the right way) will cause less wind and will create the special bonding between mommy and baby. Some experienced forumers here suggested direct feeding for the first few months and only use a breast pump when mommy starts working. Last but not least, direct feeding will stimulate your milk supply

Thanks to a few forumers here like Syd G and Jilliam who suggested breastcrawling or breastcrawl, I did it and was able to BF my LO for longer than I expected.

New mommies can try it straight after labour. It's really a precious moment

Dear experienced mummies n daddies, I really need some help n advice here.

I have a baby boy of about 3 weeks old and I've been striving to feed him exclusively with breast milk. However I do encounter some problems along the way so I'm hoping to get some advice here.

1. I let LO DL during daytime however I was too exhausted for the night feeding so what I did was pump enough during day time and confinement lady will feed LO using bottle. However, to do that, it means I will BF for 30-40 mins then when LO is done I rest a bit and continue to pump. Js a while after finish pumping it's almost time for the next feed. This is quite tiring and I'm literally doing nothing else! Is there any better way to store up breast milk for night feeding?

2. Somehow my LO is rejecting my left breast and only want to suckle on the right. Therefore my left breast is stimulated much less and is producing less milk. Anyway to make LO suckle on left as well? Everytime I put him to the left he suckle a bit and will reject and keep crying until I have no choice but position him to the right again.

3. Do I need to burp LO if he DL? Some articles that I read requires burping but the hospital lactation consultant said that BF babies do not need to be burped.

Thanks all!

Hi to all mummy expert in breastfeeding here, can I know if can breastfeed a newborn in aircond? Does a newborn gets stomach bloated of this?

Baby not naked should be ok gua

She's not naked and is wrapped tightly with lampin.
But my sis told me cannot and I also stop feeding her in air cond room, so I want to confirm this.

I'm not so sure where she's coming from but it's more comfy to nurse in cold room as breastfeeding can make both mommy and baby sweat a lot.

Newborns can be fussy for a many reasons - too hot, too old, too noisy, too quiet, too bright and the list goes on... they dont know how to handle the world so they do what they do best - cry

i m thinking......to start drinking fenugreek water after my delivery.....hope doing like this will boost my supply.....kinda scare i dun have enough milk...and MIL oredi said, 1st baby no much milk.......

That's not true in my case.

My toddler is 26m, still bf-ing and I have a few bottles of ebm in the freezer because she doesnt take frozen milk anymore.. 

Tats y i wanna start to boost milk supply as early as possible... so tat can show her i got enough supply..

By the way, maybe u can try milk spa for ur toddler, since u got extra n she doesn't take it: )

So sayang to do milk spa

I prefer to donate. But then it's more feasible to donate to babies about the same age. Most toddlers dont drink ebm anymore.. how how ..aih