Mum jokes she 'needs scaffolding to hold chest up' as she shares breastfeeding tips
dailystar.co.ukInstagram followers, took to the site to share her tips alongside various snaps of her breastfeeding her daughter, who she welcomed with partner Mathew Lewis-Carter on July 5th.
She captioned the post: "After nearly 10 months of milkshake making, my boobies have provided their final bevvy"& wow I underestimated the magnitude of emotion that came with stopping breastfeeding."There’s been a tidal wave of tears but also a colossal amount of celebration.
I worked out (with SATS level maths) I fed Rae over 3,000 times."For some, the way in to breastfeeding is a lot easier than their way out but for me it’s been the other way round."It took the first 8 weeks of Auraelia’s life for us both to learn with the cute cracked & blistered nips, double tongue tie, mastitis, a milk bleb (imagine pulling a cheese string out of your nip, a magic trick I never thought I was capable of), wearing those ridiculously expensive silver little party hats on my nips."I cried in agony through a huge chunk of the feeds but Rae wouldn’t take a bottle so we persevered through."Sharing her recommendations for breastfeeding mothers, Chessie added: "Experiment with different bottles or cups with water."From 5 months old, Rae would grab my huge bottle with a slurpy straw that I bought to take into hospital to keep my hydrated when I had her). "She loved it so around 7 weeks ago, we tried her with a little bit of formula & she surprisingly guzzled it up!"If you can, try & give yourself a minimum of 4 weeks to adapt mentally & physically. "We started with 1 bottle a day instead of the boobie for the first week, 2 bottles a day for the second week, then 3 then 4.
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