I looked down at my 6-week-old baby son with a tired smile. The kid was insatiably hungry, latching and nursing every two-and-a-half hours without fail. He would suckle greedily from one breast and then the other, easily draining both in well under 15 minutes. And when he finished, he would burp happily and contentedly, sleeping soundly till the next feed.
It was for good reason that my husband and I had nicknamed him ‘The Milk Monster’ shortly after he was born. However, his greedy appetite had put a strain on our sex life.
Although I had given birth naturally, without any complications or tearing, having to feed The Milk Monster so frequently left me an exhausted mess most of the time. I only managed to get brief snatches of sleep throughout the day, but never more than an hour or two at any one time. And my boobs had also swollen from a B-cup to a D-cup, which had made me rather very top-heavy and left me with an uncomfortably aching back.