05/08/2025
✨✨WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK✨✨
Rory girl and I are celebrating 15 months of on demand breastfeeding and I am so proud of us 🤱🏻🥛💕🥹
Breastfeeding has been one of the most beautiful experiences ever, but it has also been incredibly hard and anxiety inducing at times. The fear of are they getting enough milk? Is my supply ok? How’s her latch?
The 3am google spirals. The tongue tie surgery. The unquenchable thirst. The teary calls to the literal angels at . The pumping. Bottle refusal! Bombarding my lactation consultation with 1 million questions. The biting (oh the biting!) 🥺
But here we are, we made it through those crazy bleary eyed months and now we are feeding like it ain’t no thing 💅 feeding in planes, trains and automobiles, cafes, back alleys at restaurants, you name it 😂
It hasn’t been easy, but it’s been so worth it. Australian women really need more support to help women continue breastfeeding (if that’s what they desire). Postpartum care should include affordable access to qualified and experienced lactation consultants, more education, mental health support and longer paid maternity leave. We deserve better!
What has your breastfeeding journey looked like? Sending love and hugs to those in the feeding trenches ❤️❤️
