Simply the breast advice

TWO mums who overcame problems to breastfeed their babies have set up a website to support other women.

Alison Baum and Carly Silver founded Express Yourself Mums to give sound advice about breastfeeding in a climate of confusing information and lack of support.

Both Alison's sons Josh, two, and David, four, were born with cleft palates and had trouble sucking.

She expressed her breastmilk until both were seven months old - feeding them with a special squeezy bottle - until surgeons repaired their palates.

"David had a very tough start to life with trouble swallowing, feeding and breathing and Josh was born with a cleft palate and meningitis," says the 36-year-old from Cricklewood.

"Emotionally I felt giving them breastmilk was a difference I could make.

"I had to express milk nine times a day which meant I couldn't do much else until a friend suggested the halter neck bra that lets you use a breast pump with your hands free. It simply changed my life."


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