What is incumbent upon the pregnant and breast feeding woman if they break their fast

Question: What is incumbent upon the pregnant and breast feeding woman if they break their fast, fearful for their children, is it (upon them) to make it up, or make it up with expiation?

Answer by Shaykh Yahya Bin 'Alee Al-Hajooree - may Allaah preserve him:

Upon her is to make it up when she is able to, Allaah - Glorified be He, said:

فَمَنْ كَانَ مِنْكُمْ مَرِيضًا أَوْ عَلَى سَفَرٍ فَعِدَّةٌ مِنْ أَيَّامٍ أُخَرَ
“.. and whoever is ill or on a journey , the same number [of days which one did not observe fast must be made up] from other days.”
(Al-Baqarah:185)

Selected Duroos from Riyaad-us-Saaliheen on Fasting - 3

 

Chapter 221 - The excellence of the Pre-dawn meal and of its being delayed, as long as the appearance of dawn is not feared
     Lesson 1
     Lesson 2

Chapter 222 - the virtue of hastening to break the fast, and what a person should break his fast upon and what he should say after breaking the fast

Chapter 223 - the command to the fasting person to safeguard his tongue and his limbs from acts contrary to the legislation and from abusing and the like

Chapter 224 - with regard to some issues regarding fasting

Lesson 1