Status update on the night-feeding/breastfeeding saga: Ted is now taking bottles. Of formula. Guzzles them right down, has a burp, looks very pleased with himself. In the end, it was simple necessity that did the job - I had to go away for work, and although I wasn't...
Breastfeeding: Why I’m Thinking of Giving Up
I'm thinking of giving up breastfeeding. And I know that the phrase "giving up" sounds both defeatist and perhaps a little overly-dramatic, but I do feel defeated and it does feel quite dramatic. The truth is, I'm rather at the end of my tether with everything at the...
Expressing Breast Milk: I’m Back for Another Round
Just a little life update that I know you'll find absolutely riveting: I'm back on the old "breastmilk expressing" regime. Which means that the (approximately) one spare hour that I get every day (between 9pm and 10pm) is spent connected to a wheezing, vibrating...
The Multipurpose Maternity Cushion
Well I have to say that the Mum and B Ergonomic Maternity Cushion from Babymoov has been a total Godsend. I used it continuously through the last trimester to get my back/legs/neck comfortable in bed and I have used it for almost every single feed since New Baby Ted...
Overactive Tits, Please Calm Down…
I'm pretty sure that my breasts weren't this enthusiastic with the milk production first time around. Is it some sort of phenomenon that on the second baby they go into overdrive, squirting milk at any and every opportunity, turning on like leaky taps the minute you...
Night Nursing: What To Wear
It's always a bit of a problem to know what to wear in the early days of breastfeeding, when you're still recovering from the birth and you're basically a sodden mass of milky skin and sweaty bits of mismatched clothing. You're told that your various lady bits need to...
From Boob to Bottle: The Second Hurdle
*NOTE: this post was written on December 13th 2015 and I have only just found it, unpublished! So I thought it fitting to publish it an entire year later, to the day. Reading it has brought back many memories and sent me into a mini panic about the fact I'm about to...
As Breastfeeding Comes To An End…
Today is the first day that I will be with the baby but do absolutely no breastfeeds. Tomorrow she is one and our little breastfeeding journey seems to have come to a natural, contented end. I have to say that I would be more than happy to carry on with feeding her -...
Review: Philips Avent Comfort Single Electric Breast Pump
Ooh. New breast pump discovery. Granted, this news isn't going to turn everyone on, it's pretty niche, but I'm quite excited because this particular breast pump was a bit of a surprise. I'm not sure why, but I had it in my head that the Philips Avent Comfort Single...
Video: Top Breastfeeding Essentials
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...
The Breastmilk Diaries: SUCCESS!
That in the photo, my friends, is 95ml of the most labour-intensive dairy product in existence on the entire planet. Only something like, I dunno, Starfish Milk would be more precious. Unicorn tears. That there breastmilk in the picture only took twenty minutes to...
The Breastmilk Diaries: In at the Deep End
After a long gap in which I had made no attempt whatsoever to do any breastmilk expressing, a bout of mastitis the other week (see here) forced me to have another go. Talk about being thrown in at the deep end! Foggy-headed and feverish, messing about with boobs and...