Mamaste Village

I’m so excited to be joining the Fitmom Durham family!

If you or someone you know is expecting, this fitmom2be prenatal yoga series starts next week.

we had finished our shoot and were walking back to the car when said ‘look at the sky stand right there’

and this is by far my favourite shot ✨

I often share the hard days but today, today was a good day.

I got a peleton class in while P napped and Henry watched (literally), we went grocery shopping, I cleaned out the fridge and loaded the dishwasher, I had a call with Ps paediatrician, I took them both to the optometrist, we saved a butterfly and I made a steak dinner (that only I ate), and they were both asleep by 7:20pm.

most days I feel like I’m just trying to survive, but today felt like I sort of knew what I was doing, and those days are worth celebrating.

don’t worry i’ll be back tomorrow with all of my mom fails.

I went into my breastfeeding journey with Poppy confident and what I thought was experienced, after all I had (despite a very rocky start) breastfed Henry for two years.

her latch was shallow and pinched, and after each feed I would get this tingling stabbing pain in my breasts.

at 24 hours I begged my midwife for the magic cream, my ni***es were bleeding and blistered.

she wouldn’t latch with a shield which is what saved my experience with Henry, so every feed was painful. But I kept pushing through thinking maybe I just needed to get used to the pain.

I began questioning if she had a tie, like Henry.
similar to my experience with him I kept being told ‘she’s latching’ - but after two weeks I couldn’t take it, I booked a consultation at a clinic.
the lactation consultant on site watched her nurse, together with the dentist diagnosed the tie and acknowledged her shallow latch. She then said ‘look at your ni***es they’re purple, she’s cutting off your circulation - the tingling stabbing feeling you have is the blood rushing back’

I genuinely thought the release would fix everything but we still had a long road ahead of us.
tongue exercises, adjusting her latch every feed, 3 lactation consultants, nursing strikes lasting days, and months of working together to find our groove, we finally got the hang of it.

we are now at 5 months of exclusive breastfeeding and this little snacker eats around the clock.