feeding 101

Your guide to all things feeding.

How to Know Your Baby is Getting Enough Breast Milk One of the biggest concerns for any new parent is “how do I know my baby is getting enough?” Read more

Foods to Avoid While Breastfeeding Just like so many other aspects of parenting, whether we ask for it or not we tend to receive a lot of conflicting advice out there about foods we should and should not eat while breastfeeding. Read more

5 Tips for a Breastfeeding Partner As a breastfeeding “partner” you may be wondering what your role will be since she is the one with the breasts Read more

Tips For Avoiding Nipple Preference What do you think of when you hear the term “nipple preference?” Read more

When to Introduce a Bottle When possible, wait to introduce a bottle until breastfeeding is going well... Read more

5 Tips for Healthy Bottle Feeding

Strive to make bottle-feeding a happy experience for your baby. Here are 5 tips that promote healthy bottle-feeding...

Why the Shape of Your Baby’s Pacifier Matters

When selecting a pacifier for your baby, here's what to consider first...

How to Have a Calm-Gulp Free Feeding Babies feed many times each day. As moms, we want this to be a happy experience for our babies. Helping your baby have a gulp-free feeding is one way to make the feeding calm. Read more

Standard vs. Wide—What’s the Difference? Many mothers, and even some breastfeeding helpers, assume that a baby will have a wide latch on a wide bottle and a less-than-wide latch on a standard bottle. But this isn’t true at all. Read more

Bye Bye Bottle! How to make the transition from bottle to cup Babies learn so much as they grow into toddlers. Just like crawling and walking, cup drinking is a skill that takes lots of practice and is learned over time. Read more

When to Move to the Next Flow of Nipple

There are two common views on the subject of when, or if, a baby needs to move to a faster flow of bottle nipple.