4am is strange, isn’t it? It’s too early to be morning, but it’s not really nighttime still either. As a breastfeeding parent it felt to me like a liminal space between one day ending and another starting; my baby and I held in the predawn darkness through yet another feed…

“While on the surface, there is a push to breastfeed, that can in itself can come across as pressure…”

“…STILL in 2022 you don’t have to look far to come across the message that by X weeks or Y months old your baby “should” be going however long between feeds, or should be able to soothe themselves without reassurance and support from an adult.”