Also known as combo feeding or supplemental feeding. One of Swehl’s four ways to feed your baby, Mixed Feeding means using both breast milk and formula during the feeding journey. Mixed Feeding has the added bonus of keeping the magic nutrients in your breast milk, while not relying on breast milk alone to fill a baby up. The best of both worlds? Yes please.

The position in which you breastfeed your baby. Remember, the breastfeeding parent and baby should always be lined up belly button to belly button. Common positions include cradle, cross-cradle, football, koala, laid back and side-lying.

Using formula to feed your baby.

The act of expressing or pumping your milk out, generally with the use of a pumping tool. This handy tool not only allows you to fill a bottle with your precious milk, but it can also help maintain your milk supply, relieve engorgement and create a backup stash for your freezer.

Gravity be gone! PBF is where the bottle is held in a horizontal position instead of angled down. This position means that the baby has to suck (like when breastfeeding) to get to the milk. Try giving baby plenty of breaks on the bottle during PBF.