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You may be wondering how often you need to breastfeed your new baby, and whether your baby’s feeding frequency or length of feedings indicate an issue where you need some guidance.

In my opinion, the answer is a big fat ‘sometimes.’ Here’s why:

It’s a weird experience living in an age where where are obsessed with quantification—we can measure nearly everything in our lives—and then hearing we should just trust our breasts to produce what our babies need. We don’t come with milliliter markers on our breasts, and that can feel hard. It can make us very uncertain about how we’re doing with feeding.

And in some cases, parents are right to be concerned about the baby’s intake.

You’re breastfeeding, and it’s your baby’s baptism celebration, or your birthday, or a random Tuesday evening when you’ve managed to meet up with friends. Can you safely have an alcoholic beverage? Do you need to pump and dump?

To give you an overall sense of how I would help you, when you come in for any kind of initial breastfeeding appointment, we take several thorough steps: