breastfeeding

A difficult decision – Kirsten’s story

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I had a fairly normal pregnancy – or so I thought.  In the last trimester, I started experiencing a lot of back pain, but since everyone seemed to have back pain during pregnancy, I just passed it off as normal.  My daughter, Sophie, was born in July 08.  I had always said I did not [...]

Breastfeeding my allergic baby – Mary’s story

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Cyrus is the second of my three children, born nine years after his big brother. I breastfed my first child with no major problems except some learning-how-to-breastfeed difficulties in the early days and some mastitis later on. While my eldest was small I trained and qualified as a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor so I knew plenty about breastfeeding, [...]