Carrie Bickmore has revealed that since giving birth to her third child, Adelaide, she has struggled with mastitis – a breast inflammation that can lead to a bacterial infection.
The Project co-host shared with her Instagram followers that she was struggling to settle her newborn daughter in the middle of the night and dealing with mastitis, when her cousin sent her a comforting message which was just what she needed at the time.
“Sending you love if you are awake xoxox”, the text from her cousin, Fran, at 4:42 in the morning read.
Bickmore posted a screenshot of the message to her Instagram account, along with her response that read: “Been awake since 1:30am”.
“It’s the simple things,” the mother-of-three told her followers. “This message from my cousin was exactly what I needed in the middle of the night when Adelaide wouldn’t settle and I was feeling horrendous with mastitis.
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I always found comfort in the fact that when I was up in the middle of the night there were (at least) thousands of parents (mostly mothers) up feeding their babies at the same time, all of us connected in the silent dark hours feeding our babies (breast or bottle).