Dolores O'Riordan talks about raising kids after The Cranberries

One of the best benefits of having a solo career, Dolores O’Riordan recently revealed, was being able to breastfeed her daughter Dakota Rain, 2, for as long as she wanted.  While fronting The Cranberries, Dolores said a return to the band always meant a premature end to the breastfeeding relationship she shared with her two previous children, 9-year-old Taylor Baxter and 6-year-old Molly.

For the first time in my life, I didn’t have the band waiting.  I didn’t have to go back to rehearsals at three months or four months and break the nursing.  I got to sit around a little bit longer and all I had to worry about was feeding the baby.  That was quite nice.

Dolores says her new song ‘Ordinary Day’ was inspired by Dakota.

When you’re a mother and you look at your little girl sometimes, you have a flash where that could be yourself.  They just remind you of when you were small.  Back then, I was thinking, ‘Gosh, what if I really knew I was four or five what lay ahead of me?’  You’d love to make life just so perfect for them but you know that they have to go challenges and the ups and downs of growing up.

Dolores and her husband Don Burton will celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary next month.

Source:  UGO