I had always looked forward to breastfeeding and seeing adverts on TV it all looked so simple and lovely and I was determined that would be me and I imagined it to come so easily and naturally. When I had my daughter 2 years ago via c-section, she never latched on properly or took to […]
Our breastfeeding journey isn’t a positive one but it is an important one. Throughout my pregnancy I was determined to breastfeed. I told myself it wasn’t a choice, if other women could do it, so could I. We struggled with latching in the hospital and I experienced cracked nipples but was told this was normal […]
During my pregnancy I worked in a really stressful job in social care which got even more full on during the Covid 19 pandemic and as a result in hindsight I feel like I was sleepwalking through some of the decisions I made in pregnancy without thinking too much about them. Hence I knew I […]
I didn’t really think too much about breastfeeding, I just assumed I would. All my family has breastfed their babies, so I knew there would be lots of support for me. I went to a breastfeeding workshop at the hospital and took my mum. They showed us a video of a baby after birth crawling […]
I always wanted to breastfeed George and had heard it was hard but having a difficult job and never one to shy away from a challenge, I sat through my breastfeeding course thinking ‘I can do this’. When George arrived the midwives helped me try to feed him and I remember feeling overwhelmed with emotion […]
I had my daughter in 2016 and as soon as we had skin-to-skin she started to wriggle herself towards the boob. It was a bit painful getting the latch right, especially as my milk came in and I was so engorged but a fairy godmother of a health visitor arrived on day 5 and altered […]
I am a first time Mum to baby Oscar who was born right at the start of lockdown. I had no real strong opinion on breastfeeding before I fell pregnant or even during my pregnancy. I knew I would try it and I excitedly bought all of the breastfeeding paraphernalia, but I also knew that […]
Whilst I was pregnant I’d read about all the benefits of breastfeeding and knew it was something I wanted to try and do with my baby. I didn’t expect it to be easy but I thought like a lot of things if you try really hard it would be possible! I attended the HPHB course […]
I’m Mum to two lovely little boys, Ted who is 5 and Charlie who is 1. It still totally blows my mind the differences I experienced in terms of both of their labours and also breastfeeding; they are pretty much reverses of each other! With Ted, I had a long and tiring labour and when […]
Even before I got pregnant, I knew I wanted to give breastfeeding a try. I had heard a lot about the benefits and as a scientist did my own research into why it was so important for me to try and breastfeed my future baby. However once I became pregnant, I began to follow different […]
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