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Questions and Answers

This piece was originally published in the LLLGB Members’ Magazine, Breastfeeding Matters, for which I have been writing a bi-monthly column since 2008. To find out more about how to receive this magazine, click here.  “So how long are you

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Being elsewhere, writing elsewhere

It’s the end of August and soon it will be time for me to emerge from the semi-cryogenic state that characterises my summers. 18 years ago, as an American young adult on a backpacking trip around Europe, it was hard for me

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The mother-child bond

The mother-child bond

One of the most astonishing things about become a mother for the first time was the feeling that I would never again be a unitary being.  Holding my baby in my arms, looking into the tar-black pools of her eyes,

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The Ballad of the Beach: finding your home

I am delighted to welcome my first ever guest blogger, Marija Smits.  A mother of two, Marija’s poem captures a moment that so many mothers have experienced: the desire to slow time, to hold this moment with our child forever

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Holiday time: when family & friends criticise your parenting choices

It’s been a while, but I have written a new post for Mothering.com. Have a look:   http://www.mothering.com/community/a/holiday-time-when-family-friends-criticise-your-parenting-choices

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Breastfeeding, Body Image and Sexuality

Issue number 14 of Breastfeeding Today has been published today and it includes my piece on Breasfteeding, Body Image and Sexuality. Here’s the link: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/5f3b8aed#/5f3b8aed/1 Take a look!

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A startling find

Those of you following me on Twitter will know that while in Scotland last week I happened upon a beautiful statue of the toddler Jesus breastfeeding. I have now uploaded the photos,

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A bit of a rant, actually

This is not going to be a rant about health professionals.  Nor is it a rant about grannies, mothers-in-law or anyone else for that matter.  It is a rant about how fear can work its way into the mind of a

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Fear and instincts

Since my last post I have been thinking a bit more about the effects of fear.  As a new mother I had so many fears and I think they drowned out my natural instincts.  For example, my instinct was to

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