Breastfeeding Community Get advice and support from thousands of patients like you

Welcome to our Breastfeeding community. Breastfeeding is the feeding of an infant or young child with milk directly from human breasts, not from a bottle or other container. Babies have a reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk. It is possible for most mothers to nourish their infant (or infants in the case of twins and multiple births) by breastfeeding for the first six months, if not longer, without the supplement of infant formula milk or solid food. There are many advantages to breastfeeding over milk supplements or substitutes and this community will allow you to discuss this. ... Read more about Breastfeeding [close]