Mother shares hilarious breastfeeding fail on Facebook: ‘Lesson to you all – don’t do this’

Ever thought about self-tanning before you breastfeed? Here’s a pretty good reason why you shouldn’t…

Mother shares hilarious breastfeeding fail on Facebook: ‘Lesson to you all - don’t do this’

by Kayleigh Dray |
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Being a mum is hard work, as we’re sure many of you know.

So, on the rare occasion we’re offered the chance to take a little me-time, we tend to grab it with both hands.

Gemma Colley, from Leeds, is one such mum.

She headed to her local salon for a spray tan (what mum doesn’t deserve a little pampering?) and then headed back home to get stuck back into mummy duties.

But, when she went to breastfeed her baby son a few hours later, she realised that she’d maybe made a mistake…

Sharing a picture of the results to the Facebook page of popular blog The Unmumsy Mum, she said: "From one mum to another, I'd like to let you know about my epic fail of fails.

“Yesterday I had a spray tan, a few hours later I breastfed my little boy. Cue 5 o'clock shadow and a very guilty mummy?

“Lesson to you all: Don't do this.”

The hilarious picture, featuring her bubba with a fetching beard, went down a storm with other mums, attracting over 150,000 likes and 39,915 shares.

However, before you get too worried about baby's first tan, we have some good news.

Gemma added a second picture, showing that by the same evening the tan had mostly worn off.

She wrote: “Photo evidence that tonight's feed was much less orange Thanks for all the positive comments.

“I’m just another mummy trying to shed light on the adventures and misadventures of being a parent.”

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