Did you sleep with your baby? I managed to not sleep with Bob for the first week of her life. I very cleverly sidestepped this by not sleeping! No matter how long Bob had been asleep for and how carefully I put her into her Moses basket she woke up. I told my midwife and she came to help to try and settle her. After about 2 hours of trying she gave up. I am glad that this happened as [click here to read on]
When people asked me if breastfeeding was painful I’d say ‘No. Not once I’d reached my second pair of nipples!’ My first literally peeled off! Before I became pregnant I would have said that I wasn’t bothered about breastfeeding. When I was expecting Bob I said that I would give it a go but that I wasn’t going to beat myself up about it. By the time Bob was born I felt like I must breastfeed! Not sure how this [click here to read on]
