Getting a baby who is mostly bottle feeding back to the breast can take time and a strategic approach. Read this article to learn more

This is something I am hearing more and more – ‘the midwives in the hospital said I had to express, but there was no issue with baby...

Most parents understand the benefits of breastfeeding and want to do it, but unfortunately it may not be as well support as it should be. Breastfeeding needs to be learnt, but doing it as soon as the baby is born is like picking up a musical instrument for the first time on the day of a major concert. This leaves new parents feeling overwhelmed and like they are doing something wrong.

A lot of mothers think that if breastfeeding does not just happen for them they are broken. But breastfeeding is a learnt skill, like swimm

Updated 9th November 2024 I wrote a version of this article when I started this business 8 years ago as a way to explain the differences...

Having a new baby can be very exciting but can also be daunting and exhausting.  They might be small, but they require full time care –...

Foremilk and hindmilk - the terms may strike fear in many parents. But is it really something to be so concerned about?

When I was exclusively expressing for my daughter in 2014 I spent countless hours scrolling through Facebook, Amazon, and Google trying...

Originally published 12th January 2023; last updated 29th November 2025 As a mother, I can understand the anxiety an unsettled or crying baby can cause – before having my daughter, crying babies did not phase me much - I had worked in NICU for 7 years, and with babies in other settings prior to that, os I thought I was pretty well 'immune' - but when she was born, I would almost burst into tears of my own any time she cried. A human baby's cry is designed to be one of the m

At about 16 weeks gestation, your body starts making colostrum - learn more about expressing this colostrum antenatally (ie before birth)