How babies breastfeed: the biomechanics of infant suck (video & animation)

It's normal for babies to fall asleep with a breastfeed

Babies often fall asleep with a breastfeed, day and night. This is biologically normal, and makes baby sleep easy.

Some parents or carers don’t breastfeed directly, but feed their baby expressed breast milk with a bottle. Some parents or carers feed their baby with a bottle using formula. There are ways in which parents and carers using bottles are also able to get in sync with their baby’s evolutionary needs. You can find out about supporting your young baby's sleep ecosystem as best you can using bottle feeds here.

Breastfeeding doesn't only bring your little one the extraordinary nutritional and myriad other bioactive protections which come with drinking in the living tissue of your milk. Breastfeeding is a form of sensory motor...