My appeal for any suggestions on how to encourage BB to drink more milk from a beaker than she does from the boob prompted some interesting results. Namely putting chilli on my nipples to ward her off. Apparently this is quite common in Melanesian culture, but quite honestly I was horrified.

I’ve heard of using decaffeinated instant coffee granules, an idea I find equally frightening, but chilli? There is no way I could do anything like that! A quick Google revealed there are in fact a range of food stuffs dabbed on unsuspecting nipples (and babies) across the world: aloe vera in Columbia and cabbage leaves in Spain.

Either way, I can categorically say we won’t be going there…