breastfeeding

“My right breast just felt a bit fuller, perkier, it didn't really seem ‘empty’ after feeding, There were no lumps, no redness, no dimpling, no nipple changes, it just didn't feel right, “ says Kati Kuusisto. As a new mum who was finally enjoying breastfeeding after a traumatic birth and a rough beginning, Kati says, “ it was such a tricky time,…

However long you breastfeed or how much breast-milk you are able to give your baby, this magic potion made by mums is like medicine. See what gifts you have given your baby already.

What is baby led weaning? My daughter Sarah asked me. It’s what I did with you, except there wasn’t a name for it then, I told her: I just popped some food on your high chair tray and you helped yourself. What? You mean, you didn't even FEED me? I laughed, “look at your baby photos –I think somebody must have fed you (she was a deliciously…

Mama, I accept that you are tired – I know how it feels to be delirious with exhaustion but still having to put one foot in front of the other because there is a little person who needs you. I accept that you feel all touched out - I know that feeling of being groped and climbed on by little ones all day and night, that has you flinching as…

I was going to bring my son into the world without the typical large volume of waste that accompanies babies. We were going to be ecoceptional! And we were. Until baby number two came along.

I don’t believe the emotions felt by mothers who don’t breastfeed or who wean early are as simple as ‘guilt’: when we really examine mothers’ feelings about things gone wrong, it is rarely guilt that they are expressing, especially about not breastfeeding or not breastfeeding as long or as completely as they would have liked to: well informed…

Dear New Mother, It takes your breath away, doesn’t it? You knew it would. You knew it would change, well, everything, but you didn’t know it would rock you to your very core quite as shockingly as it has, did you? I didn’t either. None of us did. We read every baby book we could lay our hands on and listened to all the advice being thrown at…

I haven’t been overly vocal about my breastfeeding story, rather choosing to cheer from the sidelines in support of the brave mamas – particularly in the Instagram community -who have made it their mission to #normalizebreastfeeding. You see, although I obviously applaud and support this movement, I feel it’s much easier to be loud and proud when…

Colostrum, the yellowish ‘first milk’ produced from the second trimester of pregnancy is an antibody rich immune booster and has often been called  ‘baby’s  first immunisation’.  Colostrum helps to activate early immunological responses in your baby's gut, promoting the development of normal gut flora and preventing the growth of harmful bacteria.…

A mama asks…. I received some conflicting advice at my DD's 12mo checkup. Firstly when i said my DD cries in the car but she's too small for fwd facing the nurse suggested I turn her round anyway since it’s bad for their mental health to be so anxious and upset regularly and she could see she was quite a clingy baby and that could be…