Also makes a great stress ball - throw one or give it a squeeze! Call this a side-hustle. Call it a stress buster... Crochetb***s.com evolved by accident. My step-mum was living with breast cancer and knitting like a crazy woman to help keep her anxiety at bay. I had become a carer for her and my Dad, who was also living with cancer. We were fresh out of the final COVID lockdown but unable to mix with many. Dad had become a paraplegic, and all our lives had changed beyond all recognition. Mum wasn't the only one with anxiety. As it happened, my daughter works in our local hospital's Special Care Baby Unit, and she asked if her Nan could make a few b***s for the trainee midwives to help demonstrate good latching techniques for breastfeeding. There were 2 patterns, one for crochet and one for knitting. And so it began... I was almost obsessed with crocheting bo***es until I was eventually over-run with them! It keeps anxiety down. I could see now why Mum knitted so much. Anyway, speaking with complete strangers, as you do, about crochet bo***es � - I began to learn more about their uses in hospitals, around new Mums and in the prosthetic niche. So here we are at your service. At present, my crochet skills are limited to boob-shaped objects - but we learn something new every day. I breastfed all of my three babies and got sore, cracked ni***es and mastitis in the process. There was very little help beyond the midwives and social workers, but together we learned and worked it out. That was over 30 years ago, and I am very grateful that we got to see the professionals regularly, together with our anti-natal kin, at the clinic and coffee mornings. Contact with the professionals and other Mum's-to-be seems very limited in this new way of doing things. So if you are reading this, I expect you are one of the unsung heroes - or about to be. �
With love
Tina x
