I never thought I would make it through those first six weeks of being a mother to a wriggling human being - those early days were so overwhelming that I could not fathom that in six to eight weeks my newborn would be at a different stage and, so would I. I remember my breasts were so swollen, I could have given Dolly Parton a complex! My dad popped round with "cold raw cabbage" - I looked at it and laughed and then cried. It worked - those cold cabbage leaves (to relieve p