The Mindful Breastfeeding Blog
Painful Breastfeeding – normal or not?
“Tricky Nipples Pay my Bills” - Val, Workin’ Moms (Netflix) Yep, that’s my life too, because nipple pain is the number one reason that people come to me for help. It’s also one of the top 3 reasons why women stop breastfeeding before they wanted to. The families...
Why Mindfulness-based Antenatal Classes Have Never Been More Important
During 2020 it seems everything about life has changed. But there are some things that do remain just the same as they always have been, and one of those things is that everyday, around the world, hundreds of thousand of babies and new mothers are born. Despite the...
My Story of Low Milk Supply and How Mindfulness Got Me Through
Despite knowing that it was likely I would struggle to provide enough milk for my 3rd child, nothing prepared me for the range of deep emotions I would experience over the first 9 months of her life. The two breastfeeding journeys that I had experienced with my sons...
Why the phrase “the latch looks good” epitomises all that is wrong with Breastfeeding Support in the UK.
As the saying goes – if I had £1 for every parent who came to me and had been told that a latch looks good and yet is struggling with every single breastfeed, I would be a very rich woman. The more I hear this phrase repeated to me from stressed, struggling, desperate...
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