His first question says: If a married Muslim woman misses fasting Ramadan because she is breastfeeding her child, what is required of her if she is unable to make up that month?

The questioner : In his first question, he says: If a married Muslim woman misses fasting Ramadan because she is breastfeeding her child, what is required of her if she is unable to make up that month? Does she have to pay expiation for it, and is her husband the one obligated to pay the expiation on her behalf if she does not have the means to pay it? Yes.

The Shaykh : If a nursing woman fears for her child from fasting such that the milk decreases and the child is harmed, then she may break her fast, but she must make it up later, because she is like the sick person about whom Allah said: So when the prohibition is removed, whether in the winter due to the shortness of the day and the coldness of the weather, she fasts at that time, or if it is not possible even in the winter, then she makes it up in the following year. As for feeding the poor, it is not permissible except in the case where the impediment or excuse is continuous and its removal is not expected; this is the case in which a person feeds the poor. Yes.