Both my girls have been breastfed into toddlerhood – Jessica until she was 17 months old and Sophie is still going strong at 21 months with no sign that she is planning on stopping any time soon! I’ve always been quite determined where breastfeeding is concerned – with Jessica it felt very much like the… Read More
Six long weeks of not being able to give Jessica my milk due to a chylothorax felt like an eternity at times. Six long weeks of continually expressing to keep my milk supply going. Hoping that at the end of them, Jessica would be able to go back to the breast. I counted the days,… Read More
Sitting next to the hospital cot in the early hours of the morning, with my four month old daughter blissfully breastfeeding, I wanted to freeze the moment and hold it forever. This would be my baby’s last feed before she had to go off for open heart surgery. I gazed at her, watching her eyelids… Read More