The Emotional Landscape of Breastfeeding
Aug 2nd, 2010 Posted in Family Life, News, Nurturing Mama | no comment »Did you know we have a weekly Mama Renew post on Mothering.com? Here is this weeks’ offering:
In honour of World Breastfeeding Week I want to explore a bit the emotional landscape of breastfeeding challenges.
In a story I have seen repeated all too often, my early months of breastfeeding featured an achingly low milk supply, conflicting professional advice, and well-meaning but deeply hurtful commentary. This blessed time in my life also included a not-so-nice dose of postpartum depression, a rented scale to measure intake, a supplementary nursing system, formula, goats milk, a variety of herbs and medications, and the requisite hospital grade pump that became a good friend.
It was hard. Hard,yes, to wake up every 2- 3 hours for a pre-feed-weigh-in, breastfeed, supplemental feed, pump, post-weigh-in, and diaper change. That was hard. I ached for the simplicity of putting my babe to breast and simply knowing that he was being amply nourished.
Harder, however, was the emotional journey of acceptance that this was my reality…
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