Reason I love my OH: Foolish person in a FB group compared breastfeeding in public to 'total nudity' Enter OH with: 'Total nudity?' Now, I don't know how you breastfed your children, but most women do tend to keep their vulvas in their clothes while breastfeeding in public.'

Today myself and other Queer birth researchers, midwives, doulas and birth workers published an open letter about LGBTQ+ issues in birth world. Please feel free to share widely. You can read the letter in full here: queerbirth.com

I often talk about the health inequalities Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people face from an activist pov, rather than somethingthat affects me personally...Then it hits that I have 2 cousins who never saw their second birthday and 4 more who never saw their 30th, and damn.

Article in the local paper on helping refugees, comments section full of 'We need to look after our own'. Next article is about local kids being hit by cuts to UC, exactly the same people in the comments section totally opposing any efforts to 'help our own'. Shocking that.

'Why isn't there a white breastfeeding week?!' 'Why isn't there a straight/cis parenting collective?' Same reason why in Mario Kart you don't get blue shells and lightning bolts when you're already in first place.

fb.watch/7GiddfIDT1/ 'Some people say it's really hard to know what to call us...ASK US!' OMG! Yes. It's that easy.

Excited to share that my next book will be for the UK— where, sadly, racial disparities are widening. It’s part birth & breastfeeding guide/part Black mama manifesto. 100% overdue talk abt racism & bias. Honored to center & amplify Black UK birth workers! TY Pinter & Martin

A very awesome someone sent me an equally awesome gift from Katie Ruby Designs. I have no idea who it was as they've yet to fess up, but it was a lovely bright spark on a very difficult day.

On #WorldSuicidePreventionDay I share my story of how breastfeeding trauma coupled with PND drove me to attempt suicide, and explain why the support available in the UK has to change facebook.com/50246580985677…

Writing an article on breastfeeding with borderline personality disorder and complex PTSD. If you have experience with either feel free to DM me, or if you're a breastfeeding supporter, what's one thing you'd like to know about breastfeeding with bpd or c-ptsd.

The plan was to spend summer recovering from my mental health crisis and get back to normal in September. But its clear I can't get better on my own, so I had an appt with the mental health team today. Please get help if you're struggling. You don’t have to do this alone.

Some light relief, asking for a friend, (the friend is me, a person with an A in A level English lit). My 9 year old's English homework: What word with a silent letter means to question whether something is correct? Answers on a postcard.

'Breastfeeding, sleep, parenting and mental health cannot be treated as separate entities. In order to provide real support you must consider all of them and how they're connected and interact' From my piece on breastfeeding with BPD, which is coming along...slowly.

University: write about an environmental or lifestyle factor that either prevents disease or promotes wellness. I see you are once again asking me to write about breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding as a survivor of childhood sexual abuse facebook.com/50246580985677…

Just a not so friendly reminder that if you pride your organisation or project on being 'inclusive' and 'diverse', but you're not even trying to include voices and lived experiences from the Gypsy, Roma, Traveller community then you're not truly inclusive or diverse.

Let's be clear. This is less about the parties Boris Johnson, the thatch headed clown had. This is about the people who miscarried alone, who were alone when they were told their baby had died, who bled and greived alone, while the Tories laughed it up quaffing cheese and wine.

This is what I was doing in May 2020. I'd followed lockdown rules to a t, as a result my depression and isolation were so bad that I was actively suicidal. This trip out was the first step to recovery. Meanwhile Boris Johnson was having a party. Despicable.

Breastfeeding isn't always easy. Breastfeeding for a week, a month, a year, 2 years or more is a big deal! So be proud! Celebrate it! And never let anyone belittle, invalidate or dismiss your achievement.