The pain of breastfeeding was out of this world and I didn’t feel prepared for it one jot… I felt like a massive failure because I didn’t anticipate something that was supposed to come so easily to me to be so tough, to feel so unnatural.
Breastfeeding was the first difficult journey I went through on my path of motherhood. Had I faced it knowing just how tough it would be I wouldn’t have been so hard on myself and would have had way less of a tendency to feel disappointed in my skills as a mother.
I don’t often get on my soapbox about things – I really don’t. I like to give people and situations the benefit of the doubt, waiting for them to play out before I form opinions or get ranty. Which…
Before I had kids I didn’t realise how much guilt would be involved; guilt and parenting go together like olive oil and balsamic vinegar, like ginger biscuits and a cup of tea, like a glass of wine and my…
Elfie: my tiny little monkey baby Breastfeeding was something I never thought about much in my first pregnancy. I just assumed I’d do it and kind of thought it came naturally to all babies; you simply wafted them in the…
This post originally appeared in my old blog, www.the-alice.co.uk Breastfeeding: hard work for something that’s supposed to be the most natural thing in the world! After thinking it was all going swimmingly in the hospital and then developing cracked, bleeding…