Aisling O’Loughlin has opened up on breastfeeding and said that if you don’t do it right, it can be torturous.
The mother-of-three welcomed her youngest son Joseph in May 2016 and has two other sons, Patrick, 4, and Louis, 2.
“Breastfeeding is not as natural as we like to imagine,” she admitted.
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The presenter explained that she advises her friends how to prepare for becoming a parent by taking courses in how to breastfeed – and it’s trickier than many would think.
“I always advise friends to do a course in advance to be more prepared,” she revealed to the Irish Independent.
“Get the latch wrong and it can be the most torturous, distressing and downright frustrating thing in the world.
“Also I’d say buy or rent an electric breast pump to get the milk out if you’re having trouble, and for weaning.
“You don’t want your milk ducts getting blocked. I shudder just thinking about it. Breastfeeding was a nightmare for me.”
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Aisling also opened up about the contraception ban that was implimented in Ireland only a few years ago, with a Family Planning bill only introduced in 1978.
“I can’t stop thinking of all those women who had 11, 12, 13 children in Ireland because of the contraception ban. My heart breaks for them.
“My body is still recovering after my third. I can’t imagine what it was like for them having back-to-back babies and very little support.
“There was no choice in it for them. On top of that, they were expected to perform all of these so-called ‘mommy duties’ with barely any money, back-breaking work, feeding and washing all day long; they were terrible times for women in this country.
“We should remember these women with the deepest compassion and if they had failings, it’s understandable in the circumstances,” she added.
