Introduction to Motherness with Skye Ross

02/04/20 • 4 min

Hi, I'm Skye Ross, a mum to my almost one-year-old daughter, Albie and I live on Auckland's North Shore with my partner Mark.
This trailer episode is an introduction to Motherness and our first season, The Fourth Trimester where I'll be interviewing modern mothers with varying stories and experiences of the newborn period, as well as professional experts.
I invite you to join me as I sit down for conversations that are diverse, mindful and above all, exceptionally honest, covering topics related to raising newborn babies and navigating motherhood that are so often missed in antenatal classes. Nothing is off limits on Motherness.
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Lucy Slight / unsettled baby, lactation consultant, witching hour, bonding & postpartum emotions

In this episode, I speak to mum of one, Lucy Slight about her newborn journey with her now 6-month-old daughter Tui. Lucy talks us through her long labour and ventouse delivery of Tui and speaks positively of the nights she spent at Auckland's Waitakere Hospital following her birth where they established breastfeeding thanks to the help of midwives.
She then goes on to talk about how Tui was a small baby who was slow to gain weight and how Lucy was encouraged to pump and give expressed breastmilk top ups before she saw a lactation consultant when Tui was six weeks old. The LC assisted Lucy in ensuring Tui had a deeper latch and this appointment was a game changer for increasing Lucy's supply.
We cover their sleep routine in the early months where Tui preferred to nap on Lucy during the day and how they overcame witching hour by breastfeeding frequently and establishing routine. We also discuss how Tui was quite an unsettled, sensitive baby and how Lucy coped emotionally with the difficulties of trying to help Tui be more content, as she battled windiness and gas. Lucy generously shares all the things they tried including putting Tui on Losec (Omeprazole) and seeing an osteopath.
Lucy is also incredibly honest about the emotional toll the Fourth Trimester took on her, and how her bonding experience with Tui wasn't the newborn love bubble that she expected but how okay and normal that is.
We touch on expectations of motherhood, strength in her relationship with husband, Clint, and where she found support during this time.
I'm so grateful to Lucy for her generosity, honesty and openness and I know you will be too. Thank you, Lucy. Thank you so much.
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