Is this your child's symptom?
- Breastfeeding questions
- Most questions are about baby and common feeding instructions; some questions are about the mother.
Topics Covered for Breast-Feeding
If your baby is healthy, skip the "What to Do" section. Go directly to the topic that relates to your question for advice:
- How often to feed to bring in the milk supply
- Length of feedings to bring in the milk supply
- Length of feedings after milk supply is in
- Signs of adequate milk supply (Do I have enough milk?)
- How to increase milk supply
- Supplemental formula
- When to introduce a bottle
- Extra water
- Severe engorgement (generalized swelling and pain) of both breasts
- Blocked milk ducts (1 or more tender lumps in the breast)
- Sore or cracked nipples
- Mother's medicines
- Mother's smoking or tobacco use
- Mother's diet
- Sick infants
- Sick mother (with illness)
- Normal stools during the first weeks of life
- Normal infrequent breast milk stools after 1 month of age
- Leaking breast milk
- Vitamin D for breastfed baby
- Storage of pumped milk
- Burping
- Milk letdown that causes pulling away, coughing or choking
- Cereals and other solids (baby foods)
- When to Call Your Doctor
Expert Reviewers:
Lisbeth Gabrielski, RN, and Marianne Neifert, M.D., Lactation specialists
When to Call for Breast-Feeding Questions
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