How-To Videos
Here is a library of videos I personally made with the support of the Breastfeeding With Sarah Community. Every video features real moms and babies to teach you how to have a successful breastfeeding relationship. These How-To teaching videos cover a variety of topics to answer common questions and concerns and are a gift from our community to help rekindle the lost art of breastfeeding for all.
Learning to Breastfeed in the Early Days and Weeks
Why We Choose to Breastfeed
This is a must-see home-grown mini documentary. Hear what the Breastfeeding With Sarah community has to share about why breastfeeding is so important, what barriers exist, and the advice we have for families everywhere.
Breastfeeding in the First Two Weeks
Getting started well with breastfeeding when your baby is born is going to have a major impact on the rest of your breastfeeding journey. Learn practical steps for how to set up a healthy breastfeeding relationship, with pictures and videos of real moms and newborn babies to guide you.
How to Latch your Baby
Learning how to latch a baby on properly can be one of the hardest parts of learning to breastfeed. I’ll show you all the details involved in how to get a latch that is pain free and effective. We go over a variety of positioning and latch techniques featuring real moms and babies learning to latch!
The Four Week Growth Spurt
Four weeks into breastfeeding is an important but challenging time with baby cluster feeding and getting fussy and gassy. Learn what milestones are happening with your milk supply and baby’s weight gain at this time
Bedsharing With Your Breastfed Baby
Many parents have questions about how to make nighttime feedings safer and easier for them and their breastfed baby. This video will show the recommendations on how to make bedsharing a safer experience, from the Safe Sleep Seven to how to cuddle-curl, or “breastsleep.”
Overcoming Breastfeeding Challenges
Is Baby Getting Enough?
Breastfeeding is designed to give your baby enough to eat. Often parents wonder how they can know for sure baby is getting enough. This video will give you reliable ways to identify that baby is getting enough versus when they are not getting enough.
If You Need to Pump and Supplement
When breastfeeding challenges arise like low milk supply, or a baby that isn’t latching or transferring milk well, doing a pumping and supplementing plan can be necessary in order to make sure baby is getting enough to eat and preserve the breastfeeding relationship.
Placenta Encapsulation’s Risks
Placenta encapsulation is introducing pregnancy hormones into your body which can inhibit your milk supply. This is a new fad that may seem harmless at first and some claim there are benefits, but in this video we look at the risks involved.
OMT For Suck Dysfunction
Sometimes a difficult birth process can affect baby’s ability to latch and transfer milk well during breastfeeding and more support is needed to resolve the underlying issues. In this video we’ll learn how a gentle form of treatment can support these underlying issues.
Your Guide to Tongue-Ties and Breastfeeding
Tongue-Ties are a common cause of a painful latch, poor weight gain for baby and low milk supply for moms. In this video we learn how to identify common symptoms of a tongue-tie, as well as treatments and after-care, hearing real stories with pictures and videos of breastfeeding babies.
Toddler Breastfeeding and Weaning
Breastfeeding Toddlers
Breastfeeding toddlers is important for the health of both mother and child, but is often misunderstood and stigmatized. Come see what makes breastfeeding toddlers so valuable, how much milk you’re making, how often toddlers nurse, and more.
How to Wean
Weaning your toddler from breastfeeding is an important process that should be done with care and intention. This video will explain the 10 step process to make your weaning experience effective and trauma free.
Celebrations of Your Rite of Passage
Postpartum Blessingway Ceremony
Come see our Postpartum Blessingway Ceremony where we acknowledge that becoming a new mother is a profound rites of passage. We welcome you to join our circle as we read one of the oldest stories ever told, that of the mythical heroic journey of Inanna.
Tribute to the Mamas
This is a tribute to all the mothers who have shared their breastfeeding journeys on this channel with the world, to let other mothers know that they are not alone, and how to overcome breastfeeding challenges. We are not meant to do this alone. Come join our Community!