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The Truth about Breastfeeding
This is what I would have wanted government and NHS, Breasfeeding Network and NCT, midwives and friends to say before my son was born: Breastmilk is amazing. It tastes different every time, depending...
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Cats post-baby
I have to admit that my relationship with Fat Cat in particular has become a little more fraught – since my son was born, but certainly since baby number two has appeared on the scene. My main...
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Rated 18: Blood, nipples, pain, teen pregnancy and changing the world
It happened when my son was little as well, but it doesn’t make it any less distressing when you know the reasons and you’ve seen it before: blood on the sheet and on your baby’s sleep suit. She’s 8...
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Breastfeeding update: success!
Having posted about the trials and tribulations of breastfeeding my daughter over the past few months, I feel I must not neglect to update you on – well, perhaps not the happy ending as such, but the...
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Breastfeeding at 6 months
It has been a while since my last breastfeeding update. The Baby is 6 months old tomorrow, and our rocky start is thankfully a distant memory. I find it almost unimaginable that I was in tears every...
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A Poem about Milk
I have a lot of work on this week but still wanted to link up with Prose for Thought, so I am cheating a bit and posting a poem I wrote when the Toddler was but two weeks old. I have shared some of the...
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Baby Led Weaning – a reality check
First of all: in case, like my uncle, you are not up with the jargon and thought Baby-Led Weaning had something to do with special tiny LED lamps, I thought I’d explain the concept a little. Veterans...
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Breastfeeding: Winding down
I thought it was high time for another breastfeeding update. My aim all the way through has been to provide a realistic, truthful picture of breastfeeding that might help prepare a new mother-to-be and...
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Breastfeeding one year on
It’s funny, but it almost seems like people’s attitudes to hearing that you breastfeed your baby flip overnight from “Well done” to a shudder of disgust on her first birthday. You don’t have to...
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