Mallory Bourn wants to spread the breastfeeding message [Photo: Instagram/mallorybourn]
With tears streaming down her cheeks, Mallory Bourn winced in pain as she struggled to get her newborn to latch onto her breast. The urge to give up and switch to bottle feeding was overwhelming, but the new mum stuck with it.
Fast forward 14-months and Mallory has now become a breastfeeding advocate who wants to spread the empowering message that it’s not just ‘weirdos’ who believe breast is best beyond the first few months.
Originally only intending to breastfeed her daughter, Blythe, for three to six months, the 24-year-old now claims to be ‘addicted’ and even though her tot is now 14-months Mallory has no intentions of stopping just yet.
Mallory and her 14-month old daughter Blyth [Photo: Instagram/mallorybourn]
The new mum who writes about fashion and parenthood with her sister, Hattie on their blog Bourn Sisters says she is ‘emotionally attached’ to feeding her little one and claims it is one of her favourite parts of motherhood. So much so that she now ‘can’t help feeling a little jealous and replaced’ when she sees her little one using a bottle.
“Breastfeeding, for me, has been an amazing experience,” she said.
"I think I am addicted to the attachment and the closeness it brings, that powerful connection.
"When I think about stopping I feel really sad. I’m so attached to it and can’t imagine my day without those feeds - although I never expected to feel the way I do.”
“There is something so sacred about breastfeeding that I don’t think you can understand until you are a breastfeeding mum, and I am just not quite ready for it to be over yet.”
With tears streaming down her cheeks, Mallory Bourn winced in pain as she struggled to get her newborn to latch onto her breast. The urge to give up and switch to bottle feeding was overwhelming, but the new mum stuck with it.
Fast forward 14-months and Mallory has now become a breastfeeding advocate who wants to spread the empowering message that it’s not just ‘weirdos’ who believe breast is best beyond the first few months.
Originally only intending to breastfeed her daughter, Blythe, for three to six months, the 24-year-old now claims to be ‘addicted’ and even though her tot is now 14-months Mallory has no intentions of stopping just yet.
Mallory and her 14-month old daughter Blyth [Photo: Instagram/mallorybourn]
The new mum who writes about fashion and parenthood with her sister, Hattie on their blog Bourn Sisters says she is ‘emotionally attached’ to feeding her little one and claims it is one of her favourite parts of motherhood. So much so that she now ‘can’t help feeling a little jealous and replaced’ when she sees her little one using a bottle.
“Breastfeeding, for me, has been an amazing experience,” she said.
"I think I am addicted to the attachment and the closeness it brings, that powerful connection.
"When I think about stopping I feel really sad. I’m so attached to it and can’t imagine my day without those feeds - although I never expected to feel the way I do.”
“There is something so sacred about breastfeeding that I don’t think you can understand until you are a breastfeeding mum, and I am just not quite ready for it to be over yet.”
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