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  • Pregnant and preparing to breastfeed: a guide to the Possums resources
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Pregnant and preparing to breastfeed: a guide to the Possums resources

Dr Pamela Douglas28th of Sep 202413th of May 2025

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Being ready - or as ready as you can ever be

"... Moving through a land of wonders wild and new." Introduction, Alice in Wonderland

"The journey to motherhood is an odyssey of epic proportions, and every woman who undertakes it a hero." Susan Maushart, The mask of motherhood 1997

There are some things you can't ever truly prepare for in life. Breastfeeding is one of them.

It's difficult when you're pregnant to think much beyond the birth, which is normal. But it's good to have effective help ready, by your side or at your fingertips or on your device, if you find that life has suddenly dropped you into the middle of … OMG, having a baby who needs to be fed and things aren't going smoothly!

Just the materials in the mini-program called When Baby Comes Home will be enough to prepare you for breastfeeding. It starts here.

Other resources which help you prepare for breastfeeding

Here are links some other Possums Breastfeeding & Lactation resources which help prepare for breastfeeding.

Being ready for a busy mind and discombobulating body shape changes

Does it help to express colostrum before the birth and when would you use it?

When you've had breast surgery or nipple piercings

Do you have an inverted nipple?

Prepare to be physically comfortable when you're first breastfeeding

What are the best kind of breastfeeding chair and cushions? When you're worried your nipples might be 'flat'

The size of your breasts doesn't predict how much milk you'll make

Why giving women lists of feeding cues can make breastfeeding go worse not better

How to help your breasts make plenty of milk

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Relate to the lived-in, hardworking female body (including your own) with profound tenderness and respect

This is a time of such tumultuous physical (and psychological) change - growing a baby, birthing a baby, feeding a baby from your breasts!

Humans have distinctive anatomic features, given to us by stable genetic codes crafted through millions of years of evolutionary history, created first by our ancestral vertebrates, then the primates.

Yet within the contraints of the basic human form, we are amazingly anatomically variable. Our bodies and breasts as women are incredibly diverse. You can find out more here.

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