Paloma Faith's baby daughter has been rushed to hospital with an infection.
Paloma Faith
The 39-year-old singer revealed her six-week old tot will have to stay overnight as doctors treat her symptoms.
Paloma - who also has a four-year-old daughter with partner Leyman Lahcine - wrote on Instagram: "Back in hospital with my new baby she has an infection of some kind and we have to stay in. Bloody sad she's so small and so sweet #godblessthenhs #ilovenhs."
She also took a swipe at Prime Minister Boris Johnson as she shared a picture of her hospital breakfast, with the caption: "@borisjohnsonuk save the NHS breakfast he probably paid £40 per head for."
Meanwhile, Paloma recently opened up about her difficulties feeding the baby in her "postpartum diary" on Instagram.
She wrote: "I breastfed my first child for 7 months exclusively. Through mastitis and engorgement and tongue tie and reflux. This time I thought I don’t want to mentally go to that place again, so I thought I would give bottles of pumped milk at night and boobs in the day. That way, if I got PPD or needed a night off I could let someone else do it. Then my baby (this one) was diagnosed with tongue tie and we had it snipped. Then it grew back and I snipped it again. Now it’s gone, but she still gets frustrated at my breasts. I started to see that she would do one suck and expect milk like she gets with the bottle. After three sucks she would scream as if to say, 'it’s not coming out!'. Then with her hunger she would cry and bang me. After a while she learnt to feed but this behaviour would start after 15 mins, then 10, now 5 and I would pump milk and top her up with a bottle.
"Well, you can guess what predicament I find myself in. It very much feels like my baby has chosen bottle over boob herself. I cry a lot about it. I want the bond I felt with my first. I tried myofunctional therapy to get her tongue going and it’s helping, but there is no quick fix. I am trying not to make it about me, but sometimes the self doubt creeps in. Everyone says, 'a happy baby is a fed baby' and you start thinking I should just go with what she wants. But, I hate pumping. I have the medela symphony at home for speed, and the freestyle and the elvie pumps which slot right in your bra for walking around (convenient) and I am just going to spend the day trying to accept that if I don’t want to hear my baby protest and cry and hit my boobs for however many days, she has decided what I have to do. I vowed I wouldn’t pump, I’m pumping. Next stop try the formula conveyor belt. But I’m just going to take a few days to allow myself to get my head round it and mourn a bit. I know in the long run we will find our happiness but some days it gets a bit sad. Mums are amazing whether you breast feed, pump or formula, but every choice you make seems to have a sacrifice. Maybe that’s the lesson of parenthood? (sic)."
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