Sophie Bennett

I breastfed both of my children, and neither time was the calm, instinctive experience I had pictured. With my first, the early days were genuinely hard: a shallow latch that left me dreading every feed, cracked nipples, a frightening bout of mastitis at three weeks, and a stretch where I was convinced my supply was failing and the baby was starving. Almost none of it turned out to be the disaster it felt like at 3am, but I had no idea of that at the time.

What I could not find, in among the glossy photos of serene feeding and the contradictory advice online, was someone a step ahead of me explaining plainly what was normal, what was not, and what actually helped. The good information existed, but it was scattered, clinical, or buried under judgement.

So I built Breastfeedo, the resource I wish I’d had. I write from my own experience and from years of talking with other parents, and every article is reviewed by a lactation consultant (IBCLC) and, for the medical topics, a paediatrician, so the facts stay accurate. I’m not a clinician; I’m a parent who has been through it and wants the next person to feel less alone, better prepared, and never ashamed of how feeding goes.