Navigating breastfeeding through cancer treatment

When my daughter was around 3 months old, I had a sigmoidoscopy which revealed a tumour, suspected cancerous, in my rectum. Leaving my baby for the initial appointment felt like a huge upheaval. Little did I know what was to come.That appointment was to be the start of my treatment journey for stage 3 colorectal cancer, and the start of my struggle to get my clinical team to understand they weren’t just treating a single person. My daughter and I were a package, not least because I was breastfeeding.Just stop for 48 hoursOne of the first problems I hit as a breastfeeding patient was the investigations that I needed to determine whether I did, in fact, have cancer. You name a scan, I’ve had it. Every time I received an appointment letter for a colonoscopy, an MRI, CT, or PET scan, I had to call the specialist cancer nurses to…
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