The Partner’s Role in Breastfeeding Success
Partner support can make breastfeeding feel more manageable. Learn how practical help, communication, encouragement, and skilled support can protect both breastfeeding and maternal well-being.
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The Bigger Picture of Breastfeeding
Why Boobs for Babies supports the whole mother, and what the research says about how pregnancy, birth, recovery, emotional health, and support all shape the way breastfeeding goes. The Short Version Breastfeeding is often treated as a skill that starts at birth and stands on its own. But pregnancy, birth, postpartum recovery, emotional health, and…
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Breastfeeding Basics: A Beginner’s Glossary
Breastfeeding Basics: A Beginner’s Glossary New to this? Start here. Short, straightforward explanations of the breastfeeding words and concepts you’re likely to run into first – with links to the full guides when you’re ready for more. If you’ve started reading about breastfeeding and keep hitting words like “latch,” “let-down,” and “milk transfer” without anyone…
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The First Week Breastfeeding Guide
The First Week Breastfeeding Guide Real science. Real support. Real mothers. That is exactly what the first week of breastfeeding needs. The first week with a new baby can feel beautiful, confusing, exhausting, emotional, and completely overwhelming – sometimes all in the same hour. Your baby may seem sleepy one minute and impossible to satisfy…
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Mastitis: What It Is, What Helps, and What the Old Advice Got Wrong
Mastitis: What It Is, What Helps, and What the Old Advice Got Wrong The 2022 guidelines flipped a lot of standard mastitis advice. Here’s what’s current, what’s changed, and what to do. If you’ve dealt with mastitis while breastfeeding before, or you’ve read older advice about it, you were probably told to nurse or pump…
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The Latch: Everything You Need to Know
What a good latch looks and feels like, how to get one, and what to do when it’s not working. If breastfeeding is a skill – and it is – then the latch is the foundation. Get this one thing right, and most of the other common breastfeeding difficulties either don’t appear or are much…
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Tongue Tie and Lip Tie: What Parents Need to Know.
How to recognize it, what to try first, and how to make an informed decision if it comes to a procedure. If your baby is struggling to latch, clicking during feedings, slipping off the breast, or not transferring milk effectively despite your best positioning efforts – tongue tie or lip tie may be part of…
