Love is mother and child…

The sweet moments I have spent breast-feeding my daughters are moments I will never forget. When my first was born I had trouble breast-feeding her she had a very shallow latch and it was very painful. She didn’t want to breast-feed because the hospital had given her formula against my wishes. When my second came around I had changed doctors and hospitals and made a huge cardboard birth plan so all the nurses and doctors could see it undeniably.

The differences were with my first they put a towel between me and her when they wiped her off even though they put her on my stomach after she was born so I never got any of the amniotic fluid on my skin. She was taken to the nick you for jaundice which is very common and could’ve been treated by my bedside in my own room making me have to get up every two hours to rush to the nick you to give her a breast and I found out that they had given her formula and she was denying the breast!

With my second I made sure that they put her straight on my chest right after birth with all the amniotic fluid on her before cleaning her off I asked them not to clean her off too much and no baths for myself or her until we established breastfeeding. She stayed next to me in a cot in the room and was taken by the window during the light of day to correct the jaundice that she had which worked. She was never given a pacifier a bottle of formula no water and strictly breast-fed every 2 to 3 hours until we were sent home where which I pumped round the clock and put her on the breast whenever she needed it saving a nice large freezer stash so that my second born only got breast milk for the first six months of her life.

My second thrived! The breastmilk worked! My then two-year-old saw the newborn Breastfeeding and decided that she wanted to try it again as well! That is how our breast-feeding journey began and why we are still breast-feeding to this day. I feel that I have an even closer bond with both of my children from breast-feeding and I feel that breastmilk actually made a huge difference in my children’s lives I wish that my firstborn would’ve had a better experience when she was a newborn in order to only breast-feed as well. I wish I had been more informed and more courageous during my first childbirth in order to get what I wanted to create and be the nutritional life-sustaining support for my little one. 💕