If I’m completely honest, when my first son was born, between nursing my new baby, changing nappies and searching 'what do I do when…' on the internet, I hadn’t given much thought to how I was going to fit breastfeeding in with my everyday life. I’m not sure what I expected the breastfeeding journey to be like, but whatever I’d imagined, in reality, things were very different! Throughout antenatal classes, many of us are shown how to hold our baby, the way to achieve a good latch, and maybe a few positions to make feeding more comfortable. Useful? Absolutely. But what no one seems to mention is how breastfeeding can affect the body, and vice versa.

Over the last 10 years of motherhood and working as a women's health expert and pre- and postnatal specialist, I’ve had countless conversati

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