Lauralooamy's Blog

For the first 2 weeks after having Chester I barely left the house. I was so tired and very emotional. I was totally not prepared for the expected baby blues that hit me. I thought they would come and go as fast as they came. Mine didn’t they lasted a few weeks. I had heard and read about the baby blues but I honestly was not prepared for the way they hit me. Chester was about 2 days old and...

When I first got home with Chester I had read a lot about skin to skin helps to encourage breastfeeding and bringing your milk in. This was hard as I had a constant stream of visitors for the first 2 weeks. Don’t get me wrong I loved seeing people but all I really wanted to do was live in my dressing gown with my boobs out enabling Chester to be skin to skin. Two nights after being home Chester...

When I was pregnant I knew from the start I really wanted to breastfeed my baby. I think this was influenced from being a nurse and hearing the wonderful stories from my Mum. It’s the most natural thing in the world it’s bound to just happen one thought. How wrong was I? After a traumatic and very scary labour my beautiful baby boy was born, with minutes the midwife is asking me if I was...