THE POPPET CENTRE

If you’re a first-time mother, chances are you’ve already heard twenty-seven opinions about breastfeeding - some helpful, some… delivered like a sermon while you’re holding a baby and trying not to cry into your toast. So let me offer something simpler: breastfeeding can be wonderfully beneficial and it can also be wonderfully hard. Both things can be true in the same week. Sometimes in the same afternoon.

Here’s the warm, steady truth: for most breastfeeding mums, there isn’t a big scary “no list.” Most babies do beautifully while you eat a normal, varied diet. Some babies even seem to enjoy the flavour changes in milk (like tiny food critics, but with fewer words and more opinions).