Emily Atack gave social media followers further insight into her latest overseas break after spending five weeks in Budapest with her family.
The actress Emily Atack travelled to the Hungarian capital for a working holiday with partner Alistair Garner and their baby son Barney, six months after giving birth.
Taking to Instagram on Sunday, Emily, 34, posted a handful of photos taken during their stay, during which she indulged in plenty of local cuisine while taking in some of the city’s historic locations.
Captioning her latest updates, Emily Atack wrote: ‘5 weeks in budapest working but mostly eating and having a really bloody lovely time actually.’
The Inbetweeners star recently joked that the ‘t*ts that got her through life’ ironically let her down when she struggled with breastfeeding her baby son.
Emily Atack said she became desperate and was screaming when her now five-month-old son Barney wasn’t latching after she gave birth.
She told the Great Company podcast: ‘I know for a fact, even saying this now, I’ll get backlash going ‘breast is best’.
‘But the irony that my t*ts have got me through my life and now they’re not f***ing working for me. Yeah, cheers.
‘When I really needed you. When I really f***ing needed you. The breastfeeding thing for me was very, very difficult.
‘I tried everything I could. I couldn’t breastfeed.
That has been a really, really difficult process.
‘The baby just would not latch. He did it first, and then he stopped, and he was getting thinner and thinner by the day.
‘And I just thought ‘I’ve got to feed my baby, got to feed my child’.
She added: ‘I got very ill. I got so, so ill with something called mastitis, which happens when the milk gets all kind of blocked up.
‘I was lying there, my baby was not being fed.
‘So moments like that, it is so difficult because I’m going ‘yeah, but everyone’s going to think I’m a shit mum because I can’t breastfeed. I failed at the first hurdle. First thing that I was meant to do was breastfeed my child, and I can’t even do it.
‘I was trying so hard to get him to latch. I couldn’t do it. And he was just screaming. He was trying. I literally had my mum, my partner, my cousin squeezing.
‘You have to get like a certain angle for the nipple to go in the mouth. And at one point I had six people on my boob, like squeezing it in a certain angle.
‘I was screaming in pain, like trying to get just one tiny bit of milk out in the baby’s mouth.
‘And everyone was like discussing, going, “right, you hold that end, you hold this end”. And at the time they were like massive.
‘Took an army. I had my partner squeezing my nipple like that, had my cousin squeezing the side of my boob.
‘My mum, my mum hasn’t touched my body like that since I was a baby.
‘And yet all of a sudden people are there trying to get you to, you know, trying to feed this baby.
‘They were all sort of discussing like, ‘right, how should we make this work? You try that end, you try that end’.
‘And I just thought, ‘wow, how lucky am I that I’ve got a family like this and a partner like this and all this help around me’.
‘But I still felt like I was failing. I couldn’t feed my baby. And it’s just horrific.’