Breastfeeding is a piece of cake

Or so I thought … Wrong. With my first baby, the thought that I wouldn’t be able to feed never entered my mind. I don’t know why, I guess I didn’t want to overcomplicate nature with classes, books or buying a tin of formula ‘just in case’ etc. In fact,…

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She gets her awesome from her mummy

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So I don’t want to brag, but lately quite a few people who have followed our difficult breastfeeding journey to date have been telling me I’m awesome. That’s not an exaggeration, they have literally, right to my face said, “Stacey, you know what? You are awesome.” I’m usually not very…

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A cranky, colicky baby is not normal

All babies cry, they say. It’ll get better at 8 weeks they say … no 12 weeks … It’ll definitely get better at four months, they say. I’m still waiting. Is your baby crying more often than not? Not just crying because they’re hungry but really screaming, as if in…

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