It's one of the most natural things in the world, but that doesn't make learning to breastfeed easy.
And Paloma Faith gave her fans an honest account of her struggle to feed her newborn as she recounted her painful experience with engorged breasts and cracked nipples.
The new mother explained alongside a tearful selfie: "This is what your milk coming in does to you. It f*** you up. Now my nips have cracked too."
Paloma said she was "engorged, cracked, emotional, missing first child."
She then added: "Great combo."
The singer, 39, has been open with fans about her struggles, telling them she was in "next level pain" after welcoming her second baby girl into the world in recent days.
She has been diagnosed with acute engorgement which means she has too much milk in her breasts for her babies needs.
She wrote on Instagram : "I’ve been told it should settle. Let’s hope I don’t end up in a and e with it before that! This is some next level pain! Mum life is REALLLLLLL."
Accompanied with her health update, Paloma shared a picture of cabbage leaves covering her breasts, a popular home remedy for new mums.
In a lengthy message, she updated fans: "Post partum diary. Day 3 and my milk has come in... I’ve been diagnosed with acute engorgement. This means I have too much milk and the baby isn’t big or strong enough to drain it and get it out. It’s painful.
"The boobs are rock hard. I’m trying massage while feeding, it hurts so much like a deep tissue massage and not much is helping.
"Hot showers/massage/hand expressing and poor baby is really over it with the exhausting hard work she needs to do to get the milk out of all those swollen blocked ducts."
While Paloma's struggle is far from uncommon, it often comes as a shock to new mothers.
The star has been open and honest about the less talked about parts of motherhood in a candid diary on her social media account throughout her pregnancy and since giving birth.
