24/05/2026
If you’re planning on breastfeeding (or planning to try breastfeeding) when your baby is born it’s really helpful to gather information and resources. Hannah Croft is a fabulous resource and I’d highly recommend giving her a follow. This chart is so fascinating to me.
When you come to The Pregnancy Circle we have lots of info about feeding your baby, and lots of specialist knowledge if you want to explore how breastfeeding works and what it may look like for you when your baby is born, including how to troubleshoot any problems, and you also get a chance to find out where that vital support is going to be postpartum.
Look 👀 at this amazing graph which shows every recorded breastfeed for 14 months.
In the early days of breastfeeding it can feel like that’s all you’re doing, and it’s supported by the many dots (feeds) we see in the early months of this baby’s life, but look how the feeds spread out as the baby gets older.
You can see how the pattern changed again as the baby started to eat more solid food alongside breastfeeding, and then how shecontinued having a morning and evening breastfeed for many months after that too.
This is a fabulous visual to show what happens over the course of one breastfeeding journey. (Of course, not everyone’s will look like this)
Thank you so much to Lizzy for giving me permission to share this.
*edited to say, please be kind! This is just ONE feeding journey of ONE dyad. Every feeding journey looks different, and each journey is beautiful in its own right. It can be normal for some babies to decrease the number of feeds as they get older, and it’s fine to follow their lead if all else is well. However other babies will continue frequent feeds day and night and this is fine too! If you’re ever in doubt, or would like some reassurance/support please reach out.*