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Breastfeeding: How Society Makes a Difference
This is a guest post from my lovely friend and doula trainee, Rosie Spampinato. I have encouraged her to write this post to illustrate the power that society has on our breastfeeding journeys. We do...
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Lou’s Tongue Tie Journey
This latest Tongue Tie story is from Lou Hirst, mother of two and doula. Her story shows that tongue tied babies can still put on lots of weight and their ties can therefore be easily missed. It is not...
View ArticleHeather’s Story
I am currently pursuing a career in primary care and midwifery in large part because of my experiences with tongue-tie and breastfeeding. In my future practice, I want to be like the one person who...
View ArticleCatherine’s Story
I have two boys, Billy now 3 and Tom 7 months. Both had lovely gentle births at home and breastfed immediately. Everything was in place for successful feeding, in theory…. With Billy I struggled to get...
View ArticleTash’s Story
My son was born in 2009 at a birth center with CNMs. He was breathing fast when not nursing at the center and so we transferred to the local NICU to make sure he was ok. Later I learned that breathing...
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My baby girl was checked immediately after the birth by a paediatrician. I don’t know whether TT was checked for, it was not mentioned. I asked for help with breastfeeding from the midwives present. I...
View ArticleCat’s Story
I intended to breastfeed when I was pregnant but I had very little knowledge. I was so preoccupied with the birth that I didn’t really think about how I was going to breastfeed and I didn’t anticipate...
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No pain, no gain? What EXACTLY do we mean by breastfeeding pain?
This post was most recently updated on February 24th, 2019This article is inspired by a post I wrote on facebook. The post prompted a very long thread of thoughts and feelings. Here is what I wrote:...
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This is Anne Harper, owner of the blog and facebook support group Dispelling Breastfeeding Myths. Here she talks about having 3 children, all with some form of oral restriction and why she chose to...
View ArticleKalpana
I have a three and a half week old son. His tongue tie wasn’t spotted in hospital, despite us asking and me having feeding issues. We were in hospital for a week and asked numerous times. It was...
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