I wanted to write this post while it’s all fresh in my head. I’ve just attended Nicola O’ Byrne’s breastfeeding prep class and I am full to the brim with new information and most importantly confidence and excitement for this next chapter in my life. Nicola is a certified lactation consultant and an all round lovely person. I’m so glad I had the opportunity to attend her course.     For those of you who don’t know I breastfed my son Billy for just over two years and I feel the need to clarify that this was never the plan. In fact breastfeeding at all was never the plan. I was almost offended ..read more

I had to write this while it was fresh in my head because I’m still completely reeling after my experience on Thursday. I want to shout it from the rooftops that this service exists because I’m not quite sure if I can truly articulate just how much it’s impacted me since. Birth Reflections is a service available to those attending (or who have attended) The Coombe Women And Infants University Hospital in Dublin. It is a listening service for women who have given birth or are planning to give birth there. It aims to give women the opportunity to explore their birth, how things panned out, why ..read more