Few things remind us of our being mammals as much as breastfeeding. Less discussed about than sex and nutrition, breastfeeding remains something of a social taboo. Some women feel it’s the most natural thing they ever experienced, a sort of superpower, whilst others find it painful and binding. Some women would never stop breastfeeding, others decide not to, and for others it was never an option.

What happens to the body of the woman during and after breastfeeding remains a process full of unknowns, that women are supposed to just take as it comes.

You will change, just nobody knows how, how much, for how long. Any attempt to research evidence of how breasts do change is often met with a blunt “may or may not return to their pre-breastfeeding shape”. The sentiment is: you must breastfeed, yet you should stay attractive and feel comfortable in your body.

When Breasts asked me to envision a chair for the exhibition, I was pregnant with my third child. I felt sure of my experienced body as I kind of knew what I was up against. Yet, for the first time in my experience, my little baby was not growing properly, was not eating properly. That put me in a spiral of weighing