Breast Pumping Articles & Tips

       Dozens of articles on breast pumping, breast milk and more

New Articles

• How Often and How Much Should I Feed My Baby?
  Many new moms become anxious about how much and how often they should be feeding their baby. By using the guidelines, you can easily feed your baby without any worries.
  
  

Important Guides

• Caring For Your Breast Milk
  These breast milk guidelines will help you understand how durable your breast milk is and how perfect it is just for your baby.
  
  
• Weaning from Breast
  Weaning baby from breast can be both a physical and emotional challenge for you and your baby. Use some of these tips to help wean your baby a little easier for both of you.
  
  
• Breastfeeding Options
  Getting breast milk to your baby once meant having your baby at your side 24/7, but today moms are returning to work while still providing breast milk for baby.
  
  
• Breastfeeding Before the Baby Comes
  Breastfeeding takes preparation and taking the time preparing to breastfeed during pregnancy is the best time to make sure you are ready when baby comes
  
  
• Engorgement Symptoms and Treatments
  Are you looking for breast engorgement relief? Try some of these treatments to help relieve some of the pain.
  
  
• “Fore” and “Hind” Milk Facts and Considerations
  Foremilk is good for baby, but making sure that baby also receives the much more nutrious hindmilk will satisfy baby more.
  
  
• Which Breast Pump is Right for You
  
  
  
• Pumping Breast Milk For Your Supertwins
  
  
  
• Keep that Milk Coming – Increasing Your Milk Supply
  
  
  
• A Successful Pumping Session from Beginning to End
  
  
  
• Products that Make Pumping More Convenient
  
  
  
• How to Choose a Suitable Breast Pump
  
  
  
• Pumping on the Road
  
  
  
• Pumping For the Premature or Sick Baby
  
  
  
• Returning to Work, the Benefits of Pumping and the Breastfeeding Plan
  
  
  
• The Guide to Handling and Storing Your Pumped Breast Milk
  
  
  
• Breast Pumping and Antidepressants
  
  
  
• Milk Bank Donors Give the Gift of 'Liquid Gold'
  
  
  
• Bobby’s Dairy: Nursing a Baby with Chylothorax
  
  
  
• Prescription Drugs: Should They Be Used To Increase Breast Milk Supply?
  
  
  
• Breast Pumping: The Alternative Feeding Option
  
  

Breast Milk

• Lactation and How It Works
  Lactation can be mystifying, but find out what is behind breast milk production that can help you increase your breast milk.
  
  
• Smart Families Value Breastmilk
  
  
• Is My Precious Breast Milk Spoiled?
  
  
• Is that baby formula good for my baby?
  
  
• Pink Breast Milk – Can there be blood in pumped breast milk?
  
  
• Stocking Up On Your Precious Breast Milk
  
  
• Warming Your Breast Milk
  
  
• Is breast milk better for my baby?
  
  
• Is My Breast Milk Getting My Baby Drunk?
  
  

Breast Pumping

• What Are Your Breast Pumping Needs - Choosing a Breast Pump That Is Right for You?
  Finding the right breast pump for your needs is based on your reason for breast pumping.
  
  
• We Want You to “Touch Yourself”
  
  
• Using a Breast Pump To Stop Engorgement
  
  
• How Do I Stop My Breast Milk?
  
  
• Can I Breast Pump Before Baby Is Born?
  
  
• Cleaning the Breast Pump – what is that beige stuff?
  
  
• Didn’t I just finish – breast pumping sessions
  
  
• Get Organized and See Just How Easy These Breast Pumping Sessions Can Be!
  
  
• How soon can I begin to exclusively breast pump?
  
  
• It’s Only 10 – 15 Minutes – Take Some Time To Relax
  
  
• What kind of schedule should I expect to have when beginning to exclusively pump?
  
  
• Ouch! Sore Nipples
  
  
• Engorged Breasts! What can I do?
  
  
• Why Is Mold In My Tubing?
  
  
• Why is the breast milk collecting in my tubing?
  
  

Increase Breast Milk

• Giving Up Breast Pumping at Night Can Be Decreasing Your Breast Milk Supply
  A hormone called Feedback Inhibitor determines that if less breast milk is being used, then less will be produced.
  


• More Milk Plus Vegetarian Capsules are Amazing, BUT . . .
  
  
• Is Herbal Tea to Increase Breast Milk Safe
  
  
• Low Milk Supply
  
  
• 10 Ways to Increase Milk Supply
  
  
• Decongestants and Medication - The Effects On Your Breast Milk
  
  
• Fenugreek – Does It Help You Pump More Breast Milk?
  
  
• Reducing Your Calories May Reduce Your Breast Milk Supply
  
  
• WATER – One of The Best Ways To increase Breast Milk Supply
  
  
• Ways To Get Water Into Your Day – EVERYDAY!
  
  

Breast Pump Extras

• Hands Free Breast Pumping Bra
  
  
• Night Time Feeding Favorites
  
  

General

• Care and Feeding of a New Mom
  Postpartum and Breastmilk Mom - What you put in your mouth makes a difference to both you and your new baby.
  
  
• New Mom’s 5 Biggest Concerns
  We have created an article that answers some of our mom’s most important questions.
  
  
• New Attitude about Family Finances, the Holidays and the Rocky Economy
  How do parents cope with financial stress, especially with the holiday season just around the corner?
  
  
• Listening to Mothers Initiative
  
  
• Breastfeeding and Nutrition
  
  
• Bonding – Can It Be Done When You Are Pumping?
  
  
• Is Your Breast Pump Covered By Insurance
  
  
• The 5 S’s – Swaddling, Side/Stomach, Shhhh, Swinging and Sucking
  
  
• To Rent a Breast Pump or Not To Rent, That Is the Question
  


• Ways to Bond with Your Baby: A Co-sleeper Crib (Part 2)
  
  
• Ways to Bond with Your Baby: Bathing with Your Little One (Part 1)
  
  
• Ways to Bond with Your Baby: Quiet Rocking Time (Part 3)
  
  
• What Is Your Baby Saying?
  
  
• Why am I getting fatter? – The effects of eating and breast pumping
  
  
• Producing Breast Milk and Returning To Work
  
  
• Donating Your Extra Breast Milk Can Help Save Lives