When I arrived, gorgeous little bubba was 7.5 weeks old, bottle fed with Kendamil cow’s milk and taking an average of between 30 and 60 ml every 1 to 2 hours round the clock.

I am well aware that the WHO recommendations are that you demand feed your baby, but in this instance it was definitely not working! The baby was displaying signs of being quite digestively uncomfortable with lots of smelly bottom wind and vomiting episodes increasing daily. She was also arching her back, going rigid and stiffening her legs, frowning much of the time and only contact sleeping for very short bursts of time, so was massively overtired too.

One major issue I discovered, was that she had quite a bad case of oral thrush with white spots and patches on the roof of her mouth and a heavy white coating on her tongue. I started her on a course of Nystatin, which was prescribed by the GP, which she will need a minimum 7 days, possibly 10 to 14 for the thrush to fully clear.

The baby also has a degree of acid reflux, which was only exacerbated by the constant drip feeding as the digestive system and gut was unable to properly digest the previous feed before more milk was being given. Following the ‘demand’ feeding advice, every time the baby started to cry, milk was given and hence they ended up in this 1 to 2 hour, round the clock, feeding pattern, which was exacerbating all the issues.

The baby was so over-tired that she would just fall asleep after a few mils of milk.

Her mouth was sore from the thrush which prevented her from taking a larger volume of feed and sucking for a longer period of time.

Her gut was so uncomfortable due to constantly digesting milk and she was showing signs of being mildly intolerant to cow’s milk.

[Cow’s milk protein is the most indigestible product known to the human body and whether there is a true allergy / intolerance or not, many small babies can really struggle to break down the complex proteins in cow’s milk. Equally, some babies have a natural inability to fully break down the sugars and/or carbohydrates in their milk and tend to have symptoms like bloating, flatulence, and painful tummy. This happens because babies don’t produce the enzymes to break down complex sugars until they are older, and often, it’s not even lactose or the milk they have a reaction to. Rather, they are not able to digest many of the other ingredients in milk. It might look like lactose intolerance on the outside, but really, it’s digestive immaturity.]

Taking all of this into consideration, I decided to switch her milk to the Kendamil goat formula as tot’s milk protein is much more easy to digest as opposed to the cow’s milk – remember, cows have four stomachs and little babies – and all humans, only have one!

With the thrush treatment started, the new formula in place, plus switching up from a size zero teat to a number one, I was able to start to stretch out the feeding schedule to my recommended 3 hourly plan – as detailed in my book ‘The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan’. Gradually the baby was able to take an increased volume of feed, averaging around 80/100mls as opposed to the previous 30/40. With a longer break in the feeding, I was able to increase her length of nap during the day and her night sleep stretched from being awake every hour or so to sleeping for 4 to 6 hour stretches!

So after my 48 hour visit, the baby was feeding every three hours during the 12 hours of daytime and then only waking once in the night around 1 to 2am for a feed and going back to sleep until morning! She was also smiling a lot and not frowning, many of the previous discomfort symptoms had stopped and she was almost a completely changed little bubba!

It’s still work in progress and there will be much to assess and monitor as the days pass, but for now she is much much happier – as is her mummy!

Fast forward to today and this is the update from Kate:

“Hi Alison, hope you’re doing well. I keep meaning to message you, but worried I’ll jinx things when I do 😂 I just wanted to say thank you so much for all your help. Wilma has improved so much, she’s such a happy little girl now and sleeps through most nights. You’ve done such an incredible job, we have our lives and our sanity back ! I’ve been telling everyone how amazing you are!”

When Kate initially contacted me, this was what she highlighted on her booking form;

History of problems and current issues: – disrupted night sleeping

• between 3–7 night wakes
• screaming sometimes like she’s in pain
• messy nap routine where she only really sleeps on me
• trapped wind
• can take 2h to get to sleep sometimes
• exclusive breast feeding.

We discussed all the issues listed above – and much more, after which I gave advice on how to try and improve things, reduce night feeding and promote better sleep. Kate felt she had a plan and set about trying to implement change over the next little while.

Sadly though, by the end April things had not improved but had in fact, deteriorated considerably.

They had during this time, been prescribed liquid Omeprazole and Neocate LCP to supplement breast feeding, but Wilma wouldn’t even take a bottle let alone the Neocate and she just spat out the liquid omeprazole- so things were tricky to say the least.

Poor Wilma was in quite a bad way and cried nearly non-stop, day and night. She hardly slept, constantly fed, was scratching her face, had red and blotchy skin & rashes, awful nappies, loads of snot and mucous and the whole family was utterly miserable, exhausted and at the end of their tether.

Luckily, I had some space in my diary and was able to slot in a 3 day visit to go and help them.

My plan was to remove the breast feeding, which although tough, Kate was ready to do as she was just too exhausted to carry on and her mental health was beginning to suffer. Of course, with Wilma refusing a bottle this was not going to be an easy journey. I had also advised to switch the liquid medicine to the dispersive tablet form – Losec Mups which is much easier to administer and sweetened with pear purée, is almost quite palatable by comparison.

Once I arrived I reorganised the bedroom arrangements and set up the proper cot in Wilma’s nursery and planned to get her sleeping in there as opposed to to the same room and often bed as mum and dad.

As predicted, Wilma refused the first bottle of Neocate but I did manage to get her to sleep for a nap in her cot. It wasn’t easy and took 15 minutes to get Wilma to calm down and then, with much bottom patting I got her to sleep 😴. She woke after 45 minutes, but I persevered and got her back to sleep and she then slept for another 90 minutes. This was the first time in her cot, in her room and she had not been breastfed to sleep – a huge change and a very positive start.

As you can see from the pic, she was so full of mucous and snot that she could only mouth breathe when asleep, but thankfully as her system cleansed itself the mucous production began to diminish.

It took a huge amount of patience and perseverance over the next couple of days, but Wilma did start to accept the bottle and began drinking small amounts of the milk. As her milk intake was still low, I upped her solid food quality and quantity to compensate ensuring all her food was allergen free, freshly cooked and not processed or shop bought in anyway.

By the time I left Wilma was quite happily going to bed for naps and nighttime, sleeping through the night but with just small feed around 2am and taking increasing amounts of milk during the day.

Over the next week, things continued to improve and Kate was able to stop the night feed completely and Wilma was happily sleeping 12 hours through the night, napping easily, downing full bottles of Neocate, enjoying her food and loving life – she was like a completely different baby!!

“Wilma is so happy now she gets her sleep! And no longer on omeprazole and can drink dairy with no problems 😄 Thank you again xx🩷”

The Research was carried out by Professor Graham MacGregor, who is chairman of the Action on Sugar group, based at Queen Mary University Hospital of London and reported by the Daily Mail — referenced below.

Britain's most sugar-laden baby foods and drinks revealed

Sadly this comes as no surprise to me and I have known for years that the levels of sugar in baby pouches is far higher than we are led to believe. Well-meaning, responsible parents buy these pouches mistakenly thinking they are providing their babies with a healthier option and are unaware of the dangerous sugar levels in these purportedly ‘healthy’ breakfast pouches.

Another angle that I have pondered for a long time is the fact that most of this food was actually made and packaged, weeks, possibly months before your baby was even born! So my question would be — where are and what are these so-called and claimed ‘health’ benefits?

This report is just one amongst many that are emerging and alerting, us to the hidden dangers of using pouched baby food. The simple fact that there are no guideline limits currently in place relating to sugar levels for under 4 year-olds is simply shocking and this allows manufacturers to avoid the transparency that parents need and should be given through comprehensively, truthful labelling.

Over the years I have advised parents where possible, to avoid the pre-made, pouched food and to cook from scratch using unprocessed ingredients — you can find further information relating to diet and gut-health in both my books: My Books | Magic Sleep Fairy

A client with an eight-month old baby recently contacted me again, as her baby had started to wake during the night and was up from 4:30/5am most days, having previously been a great sleeper. This was not due to any age-related sleep regression or separation anxiety as many others would suggest, (another myth I explain and dispel in my books) but to me was clearly related to the sugar-laden food from the pouches, causing irritation to her gut. Like many others, the busy Mum was buying these pouches as an easy option, in the mistaken belief that this was a healthy choice due to the misleading marketing by the manufacturers!

This is the message I have just received from this client, Sophie Burrows, which says it all:

“Hi Alison, I’ve been meaning to message you for a while but evidently kept getting distracted! Within a few days of cutting out the pouches, Lily went back to her usual, eating, sleep-queen self. I never in a million years would’ve put two and two together on the pouches, so thank you so much. I’ve also started introducing some gluten into her diet and she seems to be fine with it, so v happy about that too xxx”

If you would like more information or help with your little one’s weaning journey, diet, gut-health, routine or sleep please do refer to both my books or you can get direct, one-to-one advice by booking a consultation with me.

All details can be found on my website: Booking Form | Magic Sleep Fairy

Reference: ‘Childhood sleep problems linked to psychosis in young adults – study’ – https://apple.news/AIAqxRIn8SLqf1qwOatuoTg

Sadly, this study holds no surprises for me as I’ve long been aware that a lack of sleep in babies and children can have a hugely negative impact on their longer term health – and that’s all areas of health. Emotional responses, aspects of physical health and many psychological issues are often exacerbated, and can even be entirely caused, through sleep deprivation.

Wikipedia states:

“Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health. It can be either chronic or acute and may vary widely in severity. All known animals sleep or exhibit some form of sleep behavior, and the importance of sleep is self-evident for humans, as nearly a third of a person’s life is spent sleeping.”

When it is known that sleep is an absolute essential and integral part of supporting good health, why has it become the accepted norm that babies and even toddlers, can’t, won’t and don’t need to sleep?

Much of the parenting ethos today believes that babies are not designed to sleep for long periods of time and still need milk throughout the night for months if not years on end, but this is simply not the case and it is a belief that is so far removed from what the natural and necessary sleep requirements actually are.

Following my ethos and the flexible routine as set out in my book The Sensational Baby Sleep Plan, thousands of parents are thankfully, turning the tide and promoting positive sleep practices with their little ones instead of accepting this new trend that sleep with their baby is unachievable.

When discussing baby sleep, asking health professionals for advice or following the general guidelines set out relating to infant, toddler or childhood sleep, the fact that sleep deprivation is an internationally recognised form of torture seems to be completely disregarded! Mostly, parents are told to just accept that a night’s sleep should not be expected and that at some, unknown point in the future, their baby or child will suddenly just start to sleep and all will be well, but this is rarely how things pan-out.

Instead, parents and children are being sentenced to months and often years of such poor sleep which, as this report states (and there are many more stating similar facts) is having a hugely detrimental affect on all aspects of family life, childhood development & education and general well-being and health.

Quite simply – It does not and should not have to be this way – and I, for one, still promote that sleeping like a baby is a phrase we need to re-believe in!

I was near breaking point when I reached out to Alison (at 3 o’clock on the morning!) enquiring about a home visit — this was honestly one of the best things I’ve done for my family. Within 24 hours of Alison arriving our little one was napping for 2 hours and within 72 hours was sleeping through the night. We have noticed such positive changes in her comfort levels and she’s come on leaps and bounds during Alison’s visit; constantly smiling, sitting upright unaided, her hair is glossier, her eczema has almost disappeared. Perhaps most importantly, you can see that she looks forward to the very effective (and short) bedtime routine, and so do I.

Our daughter quickly grew very attached to Alison, which to me was a clear signal that she was very happy and comfortable with the new routine and adjustments that she has helped us to put in place.

Alison is nothing short of a miracle worker. I can’t thank her enough for the changes that she’s helped us to implement, the entire family is so much happier. I just wish I’d contacted her sooner!”

Alison says;

“I wasn’t 100% sure what this lovely Mum expected, but I’m sure it wasn’t to see such positive changes in her baby daughter quite so quickly! Remi was somewhat orally phobic, struggled to drink milk in any quantity, would eat only a few mouthfuls of purée — and that was only with distraction, and would only sleep attached to mum’s boob!

After much discussion we agreed to remove the boob association completely, and move solely onto Neocate which had previously been prescribed by the paediatrician.

It’s such an intense process to go through — in many ways, more so for the mums rather than the babies and it can prove to be quite an emotional journey. That said, within just a couple of days Remi was responding so well and much of the previous screaming & crying, jittery and wired behaviour had stopped. Remi was so much calmer and quickly grew to love going down in her cot and settling herself to sleep and by night four the whole bath and bedtime routine was an absolute dream.

Since I’ve left, nights have continued to be calm and peaceful, Remi is happily drinking her milk and eating her meals though daytime naps can still be erratic which is normal as it can take a couple of weeks before daytime sleeps get fully established.

For anyone struggling with their little ones’ feeding, lack of sleep or on a similar journey as this mum — please know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and the information in my book is a good place to start!”

If it’s really hot in your home due to the current ‘heatwave’ it’s likely best to just hold off for a few days before making major changes within your baby’s routine or indeed implementing any form of sleep training. For example — if you were going to remove the dummy, it’s highly likely bubba is not going to be too happy about this and protest by crying somewhat — and due to the excess heat they can get more upset more easily and it can make, what should have been a fairly easy transition, much more tricky and unnecessarily stressful. That said if you can keep the temperature regulated through air conditioning or the use of a fan then it should be ok to go ahead as planned.

Tips to keep your little ones cool and comfortable:

1. It might be boring — but keep them inside with a fan circulating cooler air. The air will more easily cool if you keep a through breeze from window to window or an open door as oppose to a ‘closed’ room with no air flow as the temperature of air that circulates inside just rises instead of being refreshed.
2. Take with you a flask of ice cold water and occasionally soak a small muslin square or flannel with the water and put it on baby’s forehead or chest to cool them down. You can put the wet flannel over the vest as it doesn’t matter if the vest stays damp and you can just reapply.
3. Of course, offer more fluids during the hot weather and add in a couple of extra ‘top-up’ breast feeds or a smaller bottle of formula in between regular feeds or just offer water to drink through a bottle or a sippy cup (depending on age etc.)
4. If you need to go out use a Shade-baby pram cover or similar to protect them from the damaging UV rays. BUT they can quickly overheat in a pram so make sure there is air flow, they are mostly in the shade and that they’ve only got on a nappy and one thin piece of clothing, such as a vest. You also need to check on them regularly- even every 5 or 10 minutes, as each time you lift up the UVprotector it allows extra airflow and you can sprinkle some drops of cold water onto baby if they’re seeming hot.

Where to find 1:1 support and guidance with routine changes, sleep issues and reflux:

You can enlist my services for direct support by completing my booking form on alisonscott-wright.com/booking-form. I offer consultations via telephone/video and home visits. More info can be found on my website. Please also take advantage of my blog posts, books and podcast sessions detailed on my website.

Breakfast Idea: (dairy-free, gluten-free, nut-free, reflux-safe)

1. Use a bunny, chick or lamb shaped cookie cutter and cut out shapes from bread slice (gluten free where applicable).
2. Whisk two eggs, add dessert spoon of Vegan grated cheese or omit the cheese and add mashed banana for a sweeter treat and coat the bread shapes with mixture.
3. Gently fry in corn or coconut oil for a few minutes until golden, turning once.
4. Decorate to make eyes, nose and mouth etc with whatever your little one likes. This could be chopped olive pieces, grated/chopped carrot, smoked salmon pieces, peas, cucumber pieces or blueberries.
5. Optional: Make some ‘grass’ to go on the plate using wilted spinach. You could add gently toasted pine nuts, olives, peas etc.

Sweet treats:

Fruity Bunny Skewers: Cut up some fresh fruit (check my reflux checklist for ones to avoid, to supplement ones in the recipes. Blueberries and bananas would work well!) and put them on skewers with Easter themed marshmallows.

Easter Bunny Fruit Skewers

Gluten-free Easter Bunny cupcakes: Either buy simple cupcakes or make them at home, decorate with a KitKat bunny (gluten-free) or NOMO vegan, gluten-free bunny

Easter Bunny Cupcakes (GF)

Here are some other fantastic resources;

• Vegan & Free From Chocolate Easter Eggs | NOMO Chocolate
• Chocolate Rice Krispie Easter Treats (gluten free, dairy free and vegan)
• The Best Gluten-Free Easter Recipes {Dairy-Free Options}
• Gluten Free Easter Eggs UK | Blogs | Coeliac Sanctuary
• Gluten-Free Vegan Banana Oatmeal Cookies
• Gluten Free Taster Pack (First time buyer -Enter GFSP20% for 20% discount*)
• Dr. Almond SHOP - baking mixes - lowcarb - gluten free - soy free

I know that thought strikes fear into many parents and the anxiety of how to adapt is very real.

Never fear — The Magic Sleep Fairy is here and these are my ‘Top Tips’ for coping with the hour change:

• The general rule to adapt to the change, is the same when travelling through time zones — adopt to the local / new time as soon as possible!
• If your baby is already sleeping through the night and achieving a full 12 hour stretch from 7pm to 7am, then just set your alarm for the new 7am, get them up, (which will be an hour less to what they are used to) and carry on your day following your usual times and schedule.

Nb: contrary to popular parenting belief most babies are capable of and actually need to be sleeping 11 to 12 hours through the night by as early as 8 weeks of age and more typically around 10 to 12 weeks. See my Baby book to understand your baby’s natural sleep requirements and how to implement a schedule which promotes this.

• Any negative effect of the hour change on your baby should soon disappear and though may be more tired that first day, within a couple of days all should be back to normal and the body clock will have reset itself.
• The most important tool you have to ensure an easy transition is that your baby’s digestive system is already following its natural pattern in accordance with night/day, light/dark, sun/moon and re-fueling during the day and sleeping throughout the night.
• By switching mealtimes to the new time during the day it will create an adjustment in the whole system and sleep patterns will follow suit and fall into the new time quite easily.
• If your baby is an early riser the clock moving forward an hour can work in your favour as what was 6am, will of course now be 7am. Even if they’ve woken earlier than this get baby up at the new 7am and stick to the daily schedule on the new time. Quite often, this small reset seems to help and actually resolves the early waking issue without you doing much more as baby now sleeps into 7am and achieves nearer the 12 hour night with ease.
• Please do remember though that if the previous early waking was due to any kind of dietary issue, acid reflux problem or milk/food intolerance or allergy then your little one will still wake early and will continue to do so until you address and manage the underlying, root cause. You will find loads more detailed information on these issues in my books.
• If your baby is 4 months plus and still waking for night feeds, not settling to sleep easily or just seemingly unable to stay asleep for any length of time during the night, then you might choose to capitalize on the hour change and slightly shorter night, to implement the reassurance sleep training technique as detailed in my Baby book. Read the book, be prepared and start at bedtime on Saturday night. Nearly all parents who adopt this approach state afterwards that, ‘doing it’ was nowhere near as bad as they imagined it was going to be. (Just ensure that any underlying digestive issue/reflux problem has been fully managed before implementing any form of sleep training.)
• If you have a toddler or child then you might choose to use the hour-change opportunity and put a ‘sleep clock’ in place. These clocks that ‘go to sleep’ at bedtime, show a blue star during the night and have a yellow sun appearing to show its morning, are really useful. However, you must implement the nighttime boundaries alongside using the clock and there’s loads of information in my Toddler book on how to do this. Following my advice they’re really useful and your child quickly learns to stay in bed and only gets out of bed when the sun 🌞 comes up and use of the clock helps to easily transition through the hour change.

MY TOP REFLUX ‘SECRET’ TIP:
Most people will say that the best way to feed a reflux baby is ‘little and often’ and that this will also help manage/cure the reflux.
Sadly, neither of these declarations are actually true — in fact ignoring this advice and adopting the complete opposite, is in fact the best policy!
Babies with reflux will often try to feed little and often in response to their discomfort. They learn from a very early age that the more milk they take in one go the more it makes them reflux which hurts, so they become ‘snack-feeders’! But with proper management of the reflux issues it should be possible for them to stretch out to the natural feeding pattern.
Obviously in the early weeks you would expect a newborn to feed two to three hourly around the clock, but by around 8 to 12 weeks that should have changed to fall in line with the natural digestive pattern, which is based on a four-feed, four-hourly structure and a full 12 hour stretch of sleep at night without the need for nighttime feeds!
This pattern follows the natural feeding and sleeping requirements of any baby, but those with reflux are often unable to fall into this cycle as their demand for small and frequent feeds is driven by their digestive discomfort and reflux. Sadly however, continuing to snack-feed and having multiple milk feeds during the night only exacerbates the reflux issues as the digestive never gets a break and is unable to function as as it should.

The human digestive system is designed to be filled up and then it needs a clear gap to digest and empty the stomach contents before being refilled. This is true for babies too and once they are past the initial need to feed every 2 to 3 hours in the early weeks, they should easily fall into the natural digestive pattern of only feeding every four hours during the day with a 12 hour stretch at night.
A Norwegian study was carried on two adults who ate exactly the same for 3 meals in one day with one person snacking in between meals and the other not. Analysis of the stomach contents four hours after the last meal, showed that in the person who snacked there was still undigested food from breakfast but only food from the last meal was in found in the non-snacking person.
The problem for reflux babies is that feeding little and often actually creates more acid and digestive distress within the gut as the body is constantly trying to digest and working overtime without a break which just makes the condition so much worse. Granted it can be tricky to get a reflux baby to take full feeds less frequently, but if the reflux is properly managed through things like — an exclusion diet, the correct milk or formula, using milk thickeners and if necessary, anti-acid medicines, then it is always achievable and the four hourly, natural feeding pattern has a hugely positive impact on the babies reflux.

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However, Octavia was born screaming and almost never stopped. In the hospital the midwives kept telling Mum to just keep feeding as Octavia must be hungry, but the more she was fed at the boob the more Octavia screamed.

During the next few weeks Mum and baby fell into a rhythm of feeding but it was almost 2 hourly around the clock and Mum discovered the only way Octavia would feed was for her to lie back and gave Octavia on her tummy, almost prone and she then would latch and feed, but only ever for a few minutes at a time.

With two older children to look after, no sleep and a constantly unhappy baby — the stress started to take its toll.

After a phone consultation with me, Octavia was prescribed Omeprazole from a paediatrician who also agreed with me on possible cow’s milk protein intolerance or even allergy.

I then visited when Octavia was 11 weeks old and we started her on the medicine and Mum, who was desperate to carry on breast feeding, excluded dairy, soy and gluten from her diet, along with spices, fruit juice, caffeine and alcohol!

Over 48 hours I was able to help Mum space the feeds to just 4 or 5 in the 12 hours of daylight alongside me helping Octavia to learn to sleep at night and self soothe. Things improved dramatically and the omeprazole definitely helped, so after 48 hours I left with Octavia in a much happier place.

That said, I had reservations whether Octavia was going to be ok still on breast milk as it was evident she had a highly sensitive gut. I voiced my concerns and whist mum understood my concerns she wanted to keep breast feeding with the restricted diet in place and hoped all would be ok.

Sadly though it proved not to be so…

During the next 6 weeks things deteriorated rapidly and Octavia again became that ‘grumpy’ baby that no one could hold, she cried, shouted and screamed much of the time and wouldn’t be put down. She was never still and was jumpy and fidgety and it was difficult to even hold her.

Again at breaking point Mum reached out to me after much discussion I advised that Octavia needed an amino acid formula which would not irritate her gut in anyway and mum agreed. But, one big problem…

At this point Octavia was now refusing the bottle and simply would not take it. They had occasionally been giving some expressed milk in a bottle, but not on a regular basis and when they tried to give Octavia the Alfamino formula, she point blank refused and screamed if a bottle went near her!

I agreed to return for a second visit with a view to getting Octavia onto the bottle and drinking Alfamino. Certainly a huge challenge and one fraught with much emotion from all quarters.

Once I arrived Octavia never went to the boob again and through shouting, crying and tears — mostly from mum, and quite a few from Octavia — she eventually started taking the milk. Within hours of the first full bottle she sat on my lap and was still. She never previously sat still and was always bouncing around, trying to stand up, jerking off your lap, head banging your chest, throwing herself around and it was like fireworks were going off inside her. When a baby is ingesting milk that their system can’t cope with it’s like tiny electrons are firing inside them and it is just like fireworks are exploding in their tummy all the time and they just can’t stop jerking in response to feeling so uncomfortable.

Not only was Octavia so still, within 3 days she was chatting, engaging, reaching for toys, smiling and giggling and of course she started sleeping properly again — none of which she had previously done, and as Octavia improved her mum simply couldn’t believe the change. During the first two days of the transition, mum was wracked with guilt and hugely distraught at stopping breast feeding, but as she saw the unbelievable change in her baby the emotional guilt and distress very quickly disappeared and was replaced with utter relief and joy at seeing her baby so happy.

In fact she declared to me, “It’s almost like I was previously feeding her poison!” Which of course was not the case, but seeing such a change in Octavia it’s an understandable statement she made!

As I write in my book “Breast is always best, but never to the detriment of mother or baby”. I believe that having a happy baby and therefore a happy mummy, is of paramount of importance and whatever way you end up or choose to feed your baby you need only ever say to others:

“I feed my baby with milk and love”💗