A very Happy New Year to you all. I’m kicking off 2016 with my first bit of video content for The Uphill: My Top Breastfeeding Essentials. I hope that you enjoy this and that it provides another little “dimension” to the blog – I’m aiming to try and make one video a month that’s just…
Thanks to the many readers who recommended I try reusable bamboo breast pads: they are indeed quite brilliant. Soft, easily absorbent enough and I don’t feel bad that I’m adding to the landfill with my throwaway pads. (Enough guilt going on with the nappies.) I bought a pack of twelve from Amazon here and they…
My top five breastfeeding essentials. Apart from breasts, obviously. They’re pretty essential for breastfeeding, I would have thought. The nipple part, at least. Anyway, here are the five things that have made breastfeeding easier and/or more bearable in the trickier moments. I had always assumed that breastfeeding would be a totally instinctive process – the…