Holistic Parenting

Caesars and breastfeeding: yes you can!

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I’m not good at birth. I’ve had three babies and three caesareans, including one pregnancy when I was holed up in hospital on bed rest for 10 weeks with bleeding and an annoying case of placenta praevia. But breastfeeding, that’s something natural I knew I could do, and I did. The world’s caesarean rates are on the up. The message I want to give mums is that if, for whatever reason, you do end up with a c-section, you CAN still successfully breastfeed your baby. Some say your milk will be delayed with a Caesar, but not necessarily so. Milk 

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