Day 26 with your newborn
Feeding is allowed to evolve 🍼
How you feed your baby may not look exactly like you expected before birth. Plans can change when real life, real recovery, and a real baby arrive.
You are allowed to make feeding decisions based on your baby and your wellbeing, not only on what you imagined months ago.
How you might feel
How you might feel
Feeding can affect your body too: hunger, thirst, leaking, engorgement, hormonal dips, or tiredness after feeds are all common experiences.
Today's tip
Today's tip
If feeding is dominating your mental health, ask for support. You do not have to wait until you are desperate.
Coming up
Coming up
A feeding plan that protects both your baby and you is a good plan.
Checks and key dates around now
- Register the birthWithin 42 days in England and Wales
This is general information based on NHS guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your midwife, health visitor or GP about anything that worries you. If your baby has a high temperature, isn't feeding or is unusually sleepy, or you're worried about your own bleeding, pain or mood, get advice straight away from NHS 111 or your GP. In an emergency, call 999.