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Pumps and pumping

What colours can my breastmilk be?

Red and yellow and pink and green… 🌈 What?! Have you ever pumped some colourful breast milk? Pumping and nursing mothers have all experienced the golden age of colostrum in the...

What colours can my breastmilk be?

Red and yellow and pink and green… 🌈 What?! Have you ever pumped some colourful breast milk? Pumping and nursing mothers have all experienced the golden age of colostrum in the...

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6 popular pumping hacks - tested by us!

Googling ways to increase milk output is a common pastime for many pumping mothers. There are plentiful supposed pumping hacks out there, and it’s normal to wonder if one of...

6 popular pumping hacks - tested by us!

Googling ways to increase milk output is a common pastime for many pumping mothers. There are plentiful supposed pumping hacks out there, and it’s normal to wonder if one of...

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5 pumping apps you need to know about

Do you want some help in keeping track of your pumping schedule? Or an easy place to log your output? There’s an app for that! Like most things in our...

5 pumping apps you need to know about

Do you want some help in keeping track of your pumping schedule? Or an easy place to log your output? There’s an app for that! Like most things in our...

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Fact or suss? Busting those breast milk myths.

From the moment you shared the news of your pregnancy, you were no doubt inundated with an abundance of helpful advice. There sure is a lot of information out there...

Fact or suss? Busting those breast milk myths.

From the moment you shared the news of your pregnancy, you were no doubt inundated with an abundance of helpful advice. There sure is a lot of information out there...

Pumping Schedules for Returning to Work

Heading back to work is possibly the biggest disrupter to your feeding journey. It really is a huge topic, worthy of its own book (or two), but here are the...

Pumping Schedules for Returning to Work

Heading back to work is possibly the biggest disrupter to your feeding journey. It really is a huge topic, worthy of its own book (or two), but here are the...

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How to build your own pumping schedule (and why...

Your body goes through enormous change to produce milk, especially immediately after birth as you initiate lactation and build your volume. As you settle into a feeding pattern, your baby...

How to build your own pumping schedule (and why...

Your body goes through enormous change to produce milk, especially immediately after birth as you initiate lactation and build your volume. As you settle into a feeding pattern, your baby...