Let's Breastfeed

I love it when a plan comes together!
Yesterday I held my first Breastfeeding Workshop at my brand new practice in Twickenham and it was a huge success.
I shouldn’t be surprised really as these very same Breastfeeding Workshops were fully booked months in advance when I held them at the Harley Street Clinic.
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Oh dear, these little ones are a law unto their own. You work so hard to get them onto the breast and ensure that your milk is abundant and then without warning, they decide that they are not going to breastfeed any more! Let’s look at what you can do to help persuade them back [...]

Your breasts go through so many different stages and periods of growth and development, it is difficult to tell what is normal and expected and what is not.
Once baby arrives, your breasts will continue to change and go through periods of lumpiness. Knowing how to tell the differnence between normal breastfeeding lumps and something [...]

Too many moms are finding that getting breastfeeding help that works, a lot harder than they thought or were told, it would be.
Without the correct support and advice, moms are developing problems that could easily be avoided and then feel overwhelmed by the enormity of the complex situation they find themselves in. This often [...]

Just a quick blog this morning but something I think will be relevant to many of you. Blocked ducts, certainly not something we want to encourage, but will all this hot weather, you may not actually have much of a choice.
Blocked ducts develop slowly over a period of days but this can be brought [...]

Right ladies, we need to take action and fast!
The heat is causing too many little ones feeding problems and we need to make sure that this doesn’t result in a whole collection of problems. So, let me show you how to keep your little one awake and feeding for today – the hottest day [...]

Hee hee! So many of you have written in to ask who Lolly is – I assume you are asking because so many moms are signing their name as …(Lolly Girl)!
Well Lolly is an amazing antenatal yoga teacher who teaches moms how to strenghten muscles needed for delivery. Lolly has been doing this for [...]

Many moms need to express on day 4 but feel concerned that if they do express, somehow it will mess everything up. Besides, popping an electric device onto your breast to extract milk, is not something most first time moms feel up to on day 4!
I want to clear up some myths about expressing this [...]

Okay, I going to be honest here and say this is such a GREAT question – it makes me smile everytime it is asked! Smile – not because it it funny, no because the poor mom asking this question is so worried that things are going horribly wrong and doesn’t realise how brilliantly she and [...]

We have spoken about sore nipples so often, I almost feel like I have forgotten that they are attached to breasts!
Congested and poorly drained breasts can also lead to a lot of pain and discomfort, so this morning, I want to look at deep tissue breast pain.
Now, we all have different shape and size [...]