This summer, just before World Breastfeeding Week, I reached out to the Breastfeeding Network with a story about what happens when breastfeeding hurts. I wasn’t sure anything would come of it, but a few weeks later they came back and asked if I’d write a piece for their newsletter, BfN News. Writing for BfN felt...
When I saw my work featured in Grazia, I felt something shift. Not just the pride of seeing Milk Tales recognised, though that was real and precious. It was the knowledge that this conversation about breastfeeding difficulties, the one I’d been so desperate to have fourteen years ago, was finally happening in spaces where mothers...
I spent three years studying art history in secondary school. I can still tell you about Botticelli’s Venus rising from the sea, Titian’s reclining Venus of Urbino, and Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People with her bare breast exposed as she charges forward with the French flag. We studied Michelangelo’s David in all his naked glory,...
I didn’t write Milk Tales: a Journey of Motherhood and Breastfeeding because I had the perfect breastfeeding story.I wrote it because I didn’t. My own journey into motherhood, and into breastfeeding, was messy, emotional, full of doubt, and laced with moments of deep connection. It was also lonely most of the times, confusing, and far...
Have you ever experienced something so profound it changed the very way you see the world? For me, this happened back in 2006, far away from my comfort zone, in a small rural village in Malawi. It wasn’t an exotic holiday or a dreamy escape; instead, it was a trip that shifted something deep within...
