Thank you @sarahlb1987 for sharing your story! Sarah Louise is now only a few days away from the amazing milestone of a full year of breastfeeding 👏🥰
“My son was born 11th Jan 2022, I thought he would just latch and my milk would be there and that would be it, oh how wrong was I?!
My milk took 10 days to come in, in the meantime my son lost 14.3% body weight and took 3 weeks to gain back his birth weight, he also had a tongue tie. My nipples were like two massive bleeding scabs, he cluster fed for 14 hours one Sunday and I remember thinking, oh my god how can I continue to do this. Anyway I sought some private help and had Patrick’s tongue tie snipped and saw a breastfeeding lactation consultant who explained that I had no milk glands in my right breast. We spoke in detail and it turns out that a surgery I had on my spine when I was 12 severed the nerve endings therefore I can’t feed from that boob as my brain doesn’t send signals to make milk no matter how much I was putting baby to breast. So I solely feed from my left breast. I remember cluster feeding lasting around 12 weeks and thinking when will this stop?! I wanted to give up so many times but I didn’t, even though I’ve had a lot of hurdles to my breast feeding journey including a nasty case of mastitis. We are 10 months in to breastfeeding and I don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. So if I can go through that and come out the other side then I hope this gives hope to other mums too.”
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