Laura Anderson has provided an update after two weeks of motherhood.
The 34-year-old 2018 Love Island competitor revealed earlier this month that she and actor Gary Lucy, 41, had welcomed their first child together, a baby girl called Bonnie.
While Bonnie is Laura’s first child, Gary has four children with his ex-wife Natasha Grey.
Laura has kept her fans up to speed on her pregnancy and parenting thus far, with her most recent post being a joke about the affects of nursing.
Taking to Instagram, the reality star posed nude while feeding her daughter.
Laura sat in a comfy recliner in Bonnie’s nursery, where the infant slept on a pillow and under a blanket with her name stitched on it.
The second photo she uploaded showed baby Bonnie while she slept, dressed in a babygrow with a teddy bear on the front.
Laura wrote in her caption: ‘We’ve survived 2weeks so far 🤗 The nips are currently hanging on for dear life 😂’
She added the hashtags #BoobieTime and #Zombie.
Responding in the comments, Laura’s fans were keen to heap praise on her and offer reassurance.
‘The first 3 weeks of breastfeeding are a killer. It’s like wearing in a new pair of shoes! But one day it doesn’t hurt as much and then it’s pain free after that xx’, wrote one fellow mum.
‘If your nips are too sore and it’s hurting when feeding, you might benefit contacting a lactation consultant! 🫶🏼 well done! You’re doing amazing! It’s soooo hard but worth it x’, another wrote.
Others noted that Bonnie is ‘her dad’s double’.
‘Wow she looks so much like Gary !!’, another said.
Laura’s message comes after she disclosed her terrible delivery experience.
The influencer, who met Gary on Celebs Go Dating, suffered a haemorrhage and lost 1.6 litres of blood during the ‘horrendous’ birth.
Laura began her Instagram conversation last week by describing that it took ‘four sweeps’ to induce labour before she received a painful balloon induction that left her unable to move.
Laura eventually chose hormone induction and went into labour right away.
Her contractions, however, lasted 12 hours until she was eventually four centimetres dilated and sent to the birthing ward.
Laura said it was ‘mentally quite torturous’ to be in labour for so long with no pain relief.
Thankfully, things started moving quickly after that and Bonnie was soon with her.
However, in recovery, Laura suffered another setback.
‘Five hours later I had a haemorrhage,’ she revealed, having also suffered a painful second-degree tear and needing stitches.
Recalling the terrifying experience, she added: ‘I just stayed calm because I thought, “I’ve got everybody around me that needs to be here, doing everything they can”.’
‘So I am a bit better in emergencies like that than like smaller things, if I stub my toe it’s the end of the world,’ she joked.
Despite her ‘scary’ experience, Laura has insisted she would ‘do it again’ to have her daughter.
As for her relationship with Gary, neither party has explicitly stated where they’re at.
They did make reference to their turbulent romance in their baby announcement post, though.
Writing as Bonnie, their caption included: ‘Please don’t question My Mummy & Daddy on their relationship- This.. is all about me.’
