Before Your Baby Is Born
- Setting Up for Success: Ten Tips to Prepare for Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding: 15 Ways New Dads can Help
- What to Bring with you to the Hospital
- What is Colostrum?
- Breastfeeding: The First Few Hours
- Breastfeeding: The First Three Days
- How your breasts will change during pregnancy and nursing
- Breastfeeding: What is a Latch?
- Breastfeeding: How to Position your Baby
- Breastfeeding: How to Hold your Breast
- Breastfeeding: How to Position Yourself
- Breastfeeding Holds: Cross-Cradle, Football Hold, Cradle, Side-Lying
- Breastfeeding: How to Know When Baby is Hungry (Rooting Reflex)
The First Six Weeks
- Breastfeeding: The First Six Weeks
- Breastfeeding and Nutrition: What should I eat while breastfeeding?
- Breastfeeding: Where to Find Support
- Breastfeeding: How to Latch
- Breastfeeding: What a Good Latch Feels Like
- Breastfeeding: How to Know if you Have a Good Deep Latch
- Care Plan: What to do if Your Baby Won’t Latch
- Care Plan: How to Use a Nipple Shield
- Breastfeeding: How Your Baby Gets the Milk Out of Your Breast
- Breastfeeding: How Often do I Breastfeed?
- Breastfeeding: How to Learn Baby's Feeding Cues
- Breastfeeding: How Long Should a Feeding Take?
- Care Plan: What if Early Breastfeeding is Not Going Perfectly?
- Breastfeeding: How do I Know Baby is Getting Enough at Each Feeding?
- Breastfeeding: How to Breastfeed a Sleepy Baby
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough at Each Feeding
- Breastfeeding: Waking Your Baby to Eat: When do I Stop?
- Breastfeeding: How to Know Baby is Getting Enough Overall - Diapers
- Breastfeeding: How to Know Baby is Getting Enough Overall - Weight Gain
- Breastfeeding: How to Know Baby is Getting Enough Overall - Infant Behavior
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough Overall
- Care Plan: Engorgement
- Care Plan: Sore Nipples
Finding Your Breastfeeding Rhythm
- Care Plan: How to Increase Your Milk Supply
- Increasing Your Milk Supply: What to Expect When Following the Care Plan
- Effective Feeding: What is it?
- Increasing Your Milk Supply: Why the Care Plan Will Work
- Effective Feeding: How to Identify Effective Feeding
- Effective Feeding: The Difference Between a Suck and a Swallow
- Effective Feeding: How to Ensure Effective Feeding
- Breastfeeding: Milk Flow - The Difference Between Breast and Bottle
- Breastfeeding: How Milk Supply Affects Your Flow Rate
- Care Plan: How to Fix Your Milk Flow and Increase Your Milk Supply
- Breastfeeding: Why Your Baby May Not Be Getting Enough
- Breastfeeding: What Am I Supplementing With?
- Plugged Ducts
- Mastitis
- Demystifying Cluster Feeding: What’s Normal...What’s Not
Common Challenges
- Getting Breastfeeding Support from Mom
- Care Plan: How to Increase Your Milk Supply
- Care Plan: What to do if Your Baby Won’t Latch
- Care Plan: Engorgement
- Care Plan: Sore Nipples
- Care Plan: How to Use a Nipple Shield
- What to Expect When Following the Care Plan to Increase Supply
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough at Each Feeding
- Care Plan: What to Do if Your Baby is Not Getting Enough Overall
- Why Your Baby May Not Be Getting Enough at the Breast
- Care Plan: Plugged Ducts
- Care Plan: Mastitis
- Care Plan: Yeast
- Care Plan: What if Early Breastfeeding is Not Going Perfectly?
Breastfeeding and the Working Mom
The Man Behind The Milk
Resource Library
Our Experts
Breastfeeding: Where to Find Support
Successful breastfeeding happens with support. Every baby and mother is unique and may require unique support. If you have any uncertainties about breastfeeding or are experiencing other difficulties, seek help immediately. There are many resources available to help answer all of your questions, big or small.
Moms who've "been there"
Many moms are open to share their experiences with you and to support you in your breastfeeding journey. Connecting with someone who's been there can be incredibly powerful in achieving breastfeeding success:
- Friends and Family: Ask your family and friends for their help and support. Someone you can relate to and whose breastfed previously may give you a boost when you need it.
- Breastfeeding Groups: join a Breastfeeding Group through the La Leche League, your Hospital, your friends or search for one online in your area. There are great sites to help you, such as meetup.
- Breastfeeding Blogs: Reading through the experiences of other moms is an informative way to gain knowledge on the challenges you may face, as well as receive a boost of emotional support.
- Twitter: Moms on twitter are easily accessible and responsive to answer questions. Follow us @bravadodesigns, and don't be shy, ask us directly and we'll send you in the right direction or connect you with someone else who can provide the answer you're looking for.
Other Resources for You
- BravadoDesigns.com: Browse through our collection of articles, organized by nursing stage or access them all via our Resource Library.
- Your Hospital/Midwife/Doula: Check with your hospital to find if there's a breastfeeding clinic or Lactation Consultant on staff, or ask your midwife or doula for the name of a local lactation consultant.
- La Leche League: Check out La Leche League online or call 1-800-LALECHE (U.S.) or 1-800-665-4324 (in Canada). Or visit some of the many websites devoted to breastfeeding.
Our Experts
