Breastfeeding Articles

As the saying goes 'you don't know what you don't know', and there were most definitely some big things I didn't know before having my first baby. I was fairly well informed (even after my midwife told me not to go reading lots of stuff or I'd get myself all confused...

When I gave birth to my first baby I had no strong preference over how baby was fed, as long as it was fed. However I thought I'd try breastfeeding. I was discharged from hospital and a couple of days later baby was weighed and I got the disappointing news that baby...

My first baby is now 8 weeks old and feeds like a champion. Before her arrival I had no particularly strong feelings about how I would feed her, and assumed I would breastfeed her if I could but if for any reason that wasn't possible that was fine too. Her arrival was...

In this post I'm sharing one of my own births, which I haven't actually done before, I share snippets with clients and talk about it sometimes, but this is from an email I sent to my hypnobirthing teachers very soon after the birth. Technically I have birth in Angus,...