Woman gives birth to octuplets

Six boys and two girls.  Baby eight was a surprise!  Surgeons performing the Caesarean had been expecting seven. She’s planning to breastfeed them all.

Some musings on infant formula, advertising and undermining breastfeeding

A microscopic glimmer of positive out of the Chinese milk tragedy…  But it’s not just a Chinese thing – whilst other countries don’t tend to put melamine in their milk, don’t imagine for one moment that formula is 100% safe, wherever in the world you are. When you breastfeed, you control the milk production – [...]

Mastitis – what is it, how to avoid it, how to treat it if you’ve got it

I had mastitis when my youngest son was ten days old.  I’d had a hot, sore lump on my breast since that morning and frequent feeds weren’t doing much to soften it.  As it got redder, my temperature went up and I began to feel fluey.  Not pleasant! To relieve the pain, I got a [...]