Breastfeeding Hacks: Read The Best Tips For Baby Feeding

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Breastfeeding is rewarding but can be incredibly tough (I’ve been there!) so read these breastfeeding hacks to hopefully make your journey easier.

The Best Breastfeeding acks:

So here’s a round-up of the best breastfeeding hacks. Make sure you also read all my posts on breastfeeding, life hacks for parents and ten tips for breastfeeding support.

Be Prepared To Feed

When you sit down to breastfeed, always have the TV remote, a charged phone, a drink and a snack within reach. You might be there for hours (I still have nightmares about the time Loose Women came on and the remote was all the way across the room)

Use The Downtime

While it can seem frustrating when the baby wants to feed, a lot, again, breastfeeding is good downtime for everything from blogging to pinning; read some of my breastfeeding and social media tips from last year

Seek Out Other Breastfeeding Mums

It can be quite isolating to be awake feeding in the dark at 2am (and 4am, 5am and so on). Look for other mums on Twitter on #3amfc or #nightfeed. Save your favourite TV programmes to watch on iPlayer or Netflix. Read our latest TalkMum Night Feed Nine

Make Normal Clothes Breastfeeding Friendly

Suffering a sartorial crisis? Make normal clothes breastfeeding-friendly by wearing a vest underneath. Pull your top up, and the vest down. This means you don’t show much boob and you don’t flash your post-baby belly.

Plus it keeps you warm if you have a winter baby (read my posts on stylish summer breastfeeding dresses, winter breastfeeding dresses, breastfeeding party dresses and the my best breastfeeding bras)

Invest In The Best Pump

Going back to work, still breastfeeding and not sure how it’ll…well, work? Read this post on expressing in the workplace and read my guide to the best breast pumps

Use Reusables

If you use breastpads, have you thought about reusable ones made of fabric that you can just throw in the washing machine? They are quite bulky for during the day, so I tended to use at night or when I was around the house

Make sure you always put washable breastpads in a net bag to wash though (here’s why!)

Good Support Is Vital

Good support is necessary, both from the people around you and the physical support that props you up when you feed. I used two pillows – a v-shaped one for behind my back, and a c-shaped pillow around my waist. There’s loads of different ones, find ones that work for you

Make Breastfeeding Work

The final breastfeeding hack – the c-shaped breastfeeding pillows that go around your waist also make good laptop rests, strangely enough!

If you liked my post on breastfeeding hacks, make sure you also read my posts on

Why you shouldn’t be embarrassed about public breastfeeding,

Things they *never* tell you about babies but DEFINITELY should

And the truth about being a mum of two