Pick Me Up! Special

LENNIE’S DISCOVERY

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, now 40, 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.

I spotted it while feeding my boy

Lennie had nudged against a lump and when he moved

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