My Fight with Low Supply
March 11, 2017
It’s time to tell my own story. My story is hard for me to tell, but I feel it is important — and get ready
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It’s time to tell my own story. My story is hard for me to tell, but I feel it is important — and get ready
I thought breastfeeding aversion, or nursing aversion and agitation, was something that only inflicted pregnant mothers. And I’m not pregnant, so why have I had
Last weekend, I travelled to Geneva to speak on a panel at the World Health Organisation’s Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative congress. Surrounded by over 300
I remember a day early in my second boy’s life; I was struggling. I was physically and emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, and struggling with my milk
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what I want this blog to become, as I no longer have the need to write about my
It is 5.40am and I am on a train, on the way to the airport, alone. With a breast pump in my suitcase. I know,
All is quiet and smooth on the breastfeeding road of late. It’s a lovely way to be, where breastfeeding is just normal and easy and
Nobody talks about the days where you don’t want it. Where the last thing that you want is to be needed. By everyone. All the
One year. I really can’t believe that I have managed to breastfeed this little baby for the entire first year of his life. I’ve been
My breastfeeding journey seems to have been morphing more and more into my role as a support-person for other people with breastfeeding issues, and absolutely
I am sad today. I am increasingly coming to terms with the fact that, in my past, I did everything that I could. I made
This might be a little odd, but I’m preparing myself for some catharsis today. For the first time in this 10month breastfeeding journey, I expressed
It is World Breastfeeding Week, and… well… I don’t know. As someone who has been on both sides of the breastfeeding ‘debate’ (and yes, there
There has been a quietening of my breastfeeding-related thoughts of late. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I have still had days where my knickers have
Today is my first day feeding my little muffin with zero domperidone. It has been 32 hours since I last took a tablet, and considering
I started a Facebook breastfeeding support group a few months ago. The reasons I started my group were multiple: It was because I had so many
So when CAN you use the Haakaa*? In my last post, I wrote about some of the issues that I see from clients of
So you’ve probably heard about this thing called a Haakaa. You might even have one! Maybe you used it and loved it and spread the
Very often, when driving to a home visit, I get a message on my phone: ‘He’s hungry! Should I feed him?! Should I try to wait?’
So I’m going to be all serious now, and add some information here about dehydration in babies. I’ve spoken often about how exclusively breastfed babies
Have you every tried a Supplemental Nursing System (SNS)? Looks kind of complicated and scary, right? It doesn’t need to be! Let me make it
I thought, like many mums of breastfeeding toddlers, that it would be totally impossible to night wean my two year old. Any time I read
