Lifting up my baby boy to my chest, I nuzzled him into my right breast. ‘Are you hungry?’ I cooed to Lennie, then six months old.
When me and my hubby, Colin, 33, found out I was pregnant with Lennie back in 2018, we couldn’t wait to be a family of four.
My first-born, Frankie, then two, was so excited, and would always ask me when his little brother was going to arrive.
So, when the day finally came and I brought Lennie home from the hospital, our family felt complete.
With Colin going back to work shortly after, I soon settled into motherhood once again – from breastfeeding to changing nappies.
Only, one day, watching Lennie’s happy face as I fed him, my attention got drawn away when I felt something on my breast.
Lennie had nudged against a lump and when he moved away, I saw it protruding
