Dr. Lindsay Moore

10/16/2026

People often ask me when they should start a bottle, and the honest answer is any time. There is no window you are going to miss.

As long as you are using paced bottle feeding, a technique your lactation support can walk you through, babies tend to go back and forth from breast to bottle very well.

The part that most families do not hear about is what has to happen on the supply side when a bottle goes in. If your baby takes a bottle instead of nursing, milk still has to come out at the same time. When that step gets skipped the supply starts to drop, and it can happen faster than most people expect.

That is the part that makes the overnight bottle handoff more complicated than it sounds. Someone offers to give a bottle so mom can sleep, nobody pumps, and over time the supply pays for it. Pumping while breastfeeding is going well is not a lot of fun, which is exactly why this is worth thinking through before it becomes a pattern.

Work it through with someone in lactation before you start so you are preventing the issue rather than troubleshooting it later.

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10/14/2026

10/13/2026

New moms often ask me when they should reach out for help with breastfeeding, and the honest answer is any time you have a question

Even better than that is looking for help before you have a problem.

A little research in your area before the baby arrives means you already know who to call the minute something feels off, instead of starting that search exhausted with a newborn.

Start with your local lactation consultants, who are trained specifically to help with feeding.

Then find out if there is a breastfeeding medicine physician in your area, a doctor with extra training in breastfeeding beyond what most pediatricians or OBs receive. They are sometimes hard to find, which is exactly why I would rather you look now while you have time.

See what is available so you know who to turn to the minute you need it. And you can always start here.

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10/09/2026

Most of the preparation that happens in the third trimester is focused on getting the baby out safely. Almost none of it is focused on what happens in the first hours and days after the baby arrives and you are trying to feed them for the first time.

Breastfeeding is genuinely hard when nobody has told you what normal looks like before you are in the middle of it. These are the five things I cover with every expecting patient before they deliver because they change how that first week goes.

Find your lactation support before you deliver. The providers who can actually help you are hard to find when you are exhausted, engorged, and three days postpartum. Research who is available in your area now while you have the capacity to make that decision clearly.

Know that engorgement in the first week is common and manageable. It means your milk is coming in and your body needs help moving it forward before it becomes a problem.

Understand that your milk does not come in on day one. Colostrum is what feeds your baby in the first few days and it is exactly what they need in exactly the amount they need it.

Know what a demand signal looks like before you experience one. When your baby wants to nurse every 45 minutes in the first few weeks your body is being asked to increase production, which is exactly what is supposed to happen at that stage.

Find a physician before the baby comes who has time to answer the questions that will come up after. That is what FreedomDoc Westfield is built for.

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10/08/2026

Most new parents spend the first few weeks convinced something is wrong with their baby because nobody explained what a healthy newborn actually looks like before they came home.

Every one of those moments has sent a parent to Google at 3am or into my office convinced something was seriously wrong. Every one of them turned out to be exactly what a healthy newborn looks like.

The parents who make it through the first few weeks without that panic are almost always the ones who had someone take the time to explain what normal looks like before the scary moment happened. That conversation is one I have with every family at FreedomDoc Westfield because a physician who knows your family and has time to prepare you for what is coming is a different experience than a 10-minute discharge with a pamphlet.

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10/07/2026

The moms who tell me they failed at breastfeeding ran out of information at the exact moment they needed it most and made the only decision that made sense with what they had.

Week three is when I see it happen most. The initial adrenaline of the newborn stage has worn off, the support that surrounded the first days has gone home, and the body is going through a shift that looks and feels like things are falling apart but is actually the beginning of regulation. Everything about the feed feels different than it did two weeks ago and without someone to explain what is happening, different reads as wrong and wrong reads as failing.

What ends most breastfeeding journeys at that stage is the absence of someone who had time to say this is what week three looks like and here is why it is not what you think it is. The information existed. The support existed. It just never reached them at the right moment.

I became a lactation-certified physician because I kept watching that gap take something from moms who wanted to keep going.

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09/30/2026

Weighted feedings are a tool I use regularly in my practice and they are most useful when they are part of a fuller clinical picture rather than read in isolation.

The result from one session in my office is a data point. What I am actually building is a picture of how the baby feeds across different times of day, how they are behaving at the breast over weeks, and how weight gain and output are trending at home. A single number from a single session tells me something but it rarely tells me everything, and knowing how to weight that number against everything else the baby is showing me is where the real clinical work happens.

No single number replaces that context.

On October 2nd I am hosting a free virtual breastfeeding class where we talk through exactly how to read the signs that actually matter and what to do when something feels off.

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09/29/2026

One thing I wish new moms knew before they left the hospital is that swelling and engorgement in the breasts in the first week is really common, and not everyone gets it but a lot of people do.

When it hits, the swelling brings redness, warmth, and pain that can make the breasts rock hard within hours. That hardness is what creates the latch problems because a baby cannot compress a breast that has no give, which leads to ni**le trauma and makes it harder to get milk moving when you need it most.

My favorite tool for this is lymphatic drainage massage, a very gentle technique that moves swelling out of the breast and back up toward the lymph nodes in the armpits. With the swelling out of the way the milk can come forward and the latch improves on its own.

I follow a three step method I find easy to remember and easy to teach to tired parents at any hour of the night.

The first I call tippy-tappies. Tapping all over the breast in a bouncing motion with no set pattern, so light that you would not press a piano key down far enough to make a sound.

The second I call the breaststroke. Hand over hand along the surface of the breast, curving around the ni**le and sweeping up toward the armpit, so light that you would not wake a sleeping cat.

The third I call the gelatin jiggle. Hands under the breast, jiggling gently so the top moves the way a jello salad would.

If I had to pick one, tippy-tappies wins every time because tired parents remember it at 3am when they need it most.

On October 2nd I am hosting a free virtual breastfeeding class where we cover exactly these kinds of techniques and everything else that feels confusing in the first few weeks.

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09/25/2026

So, there are a lot of signs I look for to make sure a baby is getting enough milk. It is a worry I hear a lot.

The first one is swallows. I want to see that a baby is actually swallowing at the breast, and that I am seeing enough of them. Knowing what a swallow looks like can take a little experience to learn, so if it is not obvious to you yet, that is normal.

Then I look at the arms and the hands. In a newborn, I want to see them relaxing at the end of a feed.

Then diapers. I want to see that they are having enough p*e and poopy diapers.

Ultimately the number one sign that your baby is getting enough milk is that they are gaining appropriate amounts of weight for their age.

Weight is the one sign that has to be measured. That means frequent visits at the doctor's office to make sure everything is going according to plan.

No single sign tells the whole story on its own. I look at all of them together, and I am always happy to look at them with you.

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09/23/2026

Parents ask me all the time whether to go to the emergency room or wait and call me in the morning, here are a few examples below.

No fever number on its own makes me worried as a doctor. What else is happening matters more than the number on the thermometer. If your little one is only a few weeks old that changes everything. Even a low fever at that age can be a serious problem and I need you to go in rather than wait.

Once they are older than a couple of months I am watching for significant difficulty breathing, a child who is acting really confused, or a child who is not p*eing anymore. Those are the ones where I am going to send you to the emergency room. Most fevers can be managed at the primary care office.

Little kids have really noisy breathing and a lot of that noise is coming from their nose rather than their chest, which can sound alarming when it is actually just the anatomy of a very small airway. A lot of the time everything is fine and you are okay to come to the primary care office.

Clean out their nose first. If they are still breathing really rapidly after that and it does not slow down I get more concerned. If the skin between their ribs is sucking in every time they breathe in a way that looks different from normal I get more concerned. If they are really little and they are flaring their nostrils and grunting a little every time they breathe I get more concerned.

Losing consciousness, acting confused, or starting to vomit after a head injury are all reasonable reasons to get checked out in the emergency room.

A list cannot look at your child. That is part of why I would rather you call. Calling is never a bother to me and I am always happy to help you decide whether you need to go to the ER or come to my office first.

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