It’s a common concern, one that feels faintly disloyal and vain, but there can’t be many women who haven’t lamented their post-pregnancy body and wondered about the effect breastfeeding has on their breasts.
I’ve said for ages that it’s pregnancy that changes the shape of your breasts, not breastfeeding and today I came across this article [...]
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Myleene Klass had baby Ava Bailey three months ago and apparently wowed onlookers at a film premiere last night with her slim figure, having lost her baby weight through breastfeeding.
Charlotte Church’s mother said Charlotte’s already losing weight through breastfeeding her new baby, Ruby Megan, although she’s in no hurry to regain her figure or return to the [...]
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I thought it might be an idea to start this section with “what do you wish you’d known about breastfeeding when you were pregnant?”.For me, it was something really silly. I wish somebody had explained where the baby’s bottom arm went when you were feeding. I fed my first son in the cross cradle position [...]
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What happened?
What went well?
What was not so good?
What did you learn that would help you in future?
I think it’s pretty cathartic getting it all down, really - I know I found it very helpful to talk after my second son was born. I’d had gestational diabetes and the hospital were keen his blood sugar levels [...]
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This was Vanessa’s introduction to the topic of “the truth about breastfeeding”:
“What we discussed on Thursday August 30th 2007
“Breast, they tell us is best. Breastfeeding, we are assured is the most natural thing a mother can possibly do for her baby. And yet today’s headlines read ‘Britain’s failure on breastfeeding’. Maternity units are putting the health [...]
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I’ve been doing a fair bit of reading about tongue tie recently which is helpful to mothers who think their baby might have tongue tie, but also, it occurred to me, it would be useful for pregnant women to know what to look out for, since having a baby with tongue tie can affect breastfeeding [...]
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Reading this piece in the Daily Mail, and finding the press release it was based upon on the Babyfriendly site, I was wondering whether anybody would like to write to the Chief Executive of their local hospital to ask what their timescale is for becoming Babyfriendly?
You can find out more information about the progress your [...]
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I was thinking links to useful information, a discussion of current research, literature, advertising, etc, personal stories, ideas about how to make infant feeding support better for all women in this country and actions resulting from those ideas?
What else?
I also want to set up a section for “and what to do if breastfeeding doesn’t work” [...]
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Just to explain a bit about the reasons I have set up this blog…
I should say first that I’m not a “professional”. I’m not a trained breastfeeding counsellor, I’m not medical. I’m mum to two boys (born April 04 and January 06) and I’ve breastfed both of them, albeit with shaky starts each time (I’m [...]
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