Breastfeeding in General

Breast feeding has many benefits for both mother and baby and at the moment the bonuses of this way of feeding your baby is trying to be pushed by the health system to become more popular. At the moment bottle feeding dominates the feeding of babies and this trying to be turned around by the government and the health care system. Breast feeding, however, is very difficult and people can experience many problems with establishing and so the aim of this review is to give you some tips and advice from what I have learnt. I didn't know anything about breast feeding before I had my baby and I didn't want to hear the 'facts' from professionals as I felt as though they were ...  Read the complete review

I really wanted to give my baby the best start in life so , I knew when I was pregnant I wanted to breastfeed. I knew the benefits of breastfeeding, the fact it didn't cost anything to breastfeed and no faffing about with bottles and sterilisers.....but it ended there. After a heavy blood loss, (and something I didn't know then but know now) I didn't realise it could affect me and breastfeeding, but we gave it a good try. After giving birth my daughter latched on straight away, I thought 'fantastic, we have nailed it', but throughout the night I couldn't get out of the bed to lift her out of her cot, and didn't buzz for the midwives, thats ...  Read the complete review

I had three daughters under the age of four and breast fed all of them until they were over 8 months old, the youngest probably til she was about 12 months. I returned to work when each child was about seven months and this tied into weaning them off breast milk onto solids. I was never the maternal type, insisting that my career was going to take centre stage. At 26 I told my mum she needn't keep asking about grandkids but by the time I was 30 I'd produced three of them. I was one of the lucky ones as breastfeeding my babies came fairly naturally, well by the third one at least! My first child needed a dummy to be honest, not me. As soon as I ...  Read the complete review

As a first time mother I agonized for months about what I was going to do about feeding my baby. When My partner and I attended the ante natal classes, we found that there was a real push amongst mid wives and Health Visitors to promote breast feeding as the best way to feed your child. Their speeches on the pros and cons were almost hypnotic and weighed heavily on my mind as they reinforced the benefits of breast feeding. I was informed that if I didn't breast feed my baby would miss out on vital nutrients and anti bodies from my first milk called Colostrum. I wouldn't return to my pre birth weight. my child would suffer more likely ...  Read the complete review

When I was pregnant with my first child I knew I wanted to breast-feed. I thought it would be easy and really gave it little thought. However when my son was born 10 weeks early I was ill prepared for the struggle that followed. I have written A review on his early birth entitled born too soon if you are interested. My son was born by emergency caesarean section. As the birth was an emergency I had had to have a general anaesthetic. I was very unwell in the first few days following the birth, as was my son. I had read how important it is for your baby to receive colustrum (first milk) as this contains important nutrients and anti-bodies. My son was initially ...  Read the complete review