Edwina Bartholomew speaks candidly about her experience with breastfeeding

She welcomed her first child, daughter Molly, with husband Neil Varcoe in December last year.

And on Friday, Edwina Bartholomew, 36, spoke candidly about her experience with breastfeeding.

In a column penned for the Courier Mail, the Sunrise presenter admitted it ‘wasn’t an easy ride’ and said she felt ‘a lot of pressure to provide milk’ for her newborn.

‘For me, it wasn’t an easy ride. I had a really straightforward pregnancy and I honestly expected the rest would literally flow from there. However, instead of the Sydney Harbour of milk supply, I ended up with Lake Eyre,’ she wrote.

Edwina explained: ‘I felt a lot of pressure that I couldn’t provide all the milk my baby needed, and so every time someone struck up that conversation with me, I was left feeling uncomfortable.’

The 36-year-old went on to say asking a new mum whether she’s still breastfeeding ‘is loaded with extra emotion and perhaps guilt’.

‘If you are a well-meaning stranger wanting to strike up a conversation with a women carrying a baby, just remember her breasts are none of your business,’ she said.

This comes several months after Edwina revealed she’d broken all the parenting rules she’d created before welcoming her 11-month-old daughter into the world.

The 36-year-old said she had made a list of rules which included never letting her baby girl look at a screen, refusing to feed her food that isn’t organic and never allowing toys to be left on the living room floor.

‘Fast forward nearly a year and I’ve broken them all, especially that last one. We are now living in a home run by a tiny human overlord with tiny bits and pieces of her little life scattered all over our formally pristine lounge and dining,’ she wrote in a column penned for the Courier Mail.

Edwina explained the mess ‘isn’t an issue for her as she’s naturally a little chaotic and messy’ but her husband is the opposite.

She said: ‘How do I break the news to him that it will be a good 20 years before the carpet is rusk free?’

‘If it’s not rusk, it will be banana, then spaghetti, then birthday cake crumbs and before long it will be our kids underage drinking and spilling it on the lounge?’