My breast feeding story

I loved to breast feed my baby even before I conceived. Yes you read it right, even before i conceived. There will be different reasons for ladies to get pregnant, mine was to breast feed. I don’t know why, maybe because friends and cousins who had babies used to romanticise the breastfeeding and the attachment created between mamma and baby. So the very first reason i wanted a baby was to breast feed.
Before my baby we had my sister in law’s baby at home who’s 2 1/2 years older to Yaachu. She couldn’t breastfeed her daughter as she had inverted nipples. So seeing her pain not able to breast feed, made me cry many atumes. So having this in mind, I google searched about inverted nipple, how its caused and how to avoid well in advance because I never wanted to miss the chance of breast feeding my lill one.
Finally on may 5th, i saw those pink lines and was all excited. Gonna be a mom in few months and can breast feed my lill one, which was my all time favourite of motherhood. There was breastfeeding supporting pillow and nursing dresses in the few things that I bought before in hand my baby arrived.
But god’s plan was different. You don’t know what he is preparing for you until you get it.
In the anomaly scan at 5th month, it was diagnosed that my baby is having cleft lip and palate. I really collapsed at that report. I never ever expected that my lill one will have any such anomalies even in the slightest form.
With that report i was sure that I won’t be able to breast feed my baby any day, as he won’t be able to suck with his cleft lip. So accepting the reality I bought a feeding bottle specially made for babies with cleft palates and dropped the idea of breast feeding. From then my only prayer was for his health.
But again God came with a twist in my pregnancy journey during delivery. Even though cleft palate was diagnosed during anomaly scan, my baby’s palate was intact and his cleft lip was too minor, which was not a barrier for him to suck.
We started our breast feeding from day one. While feeding him the colostrum in labor room i was really breaking into tears. I was doing a thing which I never ever thought i can. It was my dream getting fulfilled. I kissed my baby many a time once I completed feeding, because I wanted to make sure that wasn’t a dream.
But again i had down falls in my breast feeding journey even when my baby started sucking. Then it was in the form of lack of supply. I tried my level best to exclusively breast feed my baby by feeding him in regular intervals, having anything and everything that could increase supply. But I failed miserably. And i had to start giving him formula once daily.
Thanks to bc family for giving me timely advice and supporting me to increase my supply. Somehow i increased my supply and could manage feeding him by having somuch supplements.
But again came a downfall in our breastfeeding journey as Yaachu’s lip correction surgery. At that time i had to express and give him milk for one month as he couldn’t suck. That led to decline of supply and i again had to seek help of formula feed.
After so much ups and downs we completed 7 months of breastfeeding. Now he’s having 3 solidfeeds daily and breast milk. We’re enjoying our breastfeeding journey even though we couldn’t make it exclusive breastfeeding till six months. I never think iam inferior to any mom as I couldn’t exclusively breastfeed my lill one. Me and my son tried our best and we’re fighters, so we think we’re the best. So penning down our breastfeeding journey is also a happiness. We’ll continue our breastfeeding journey atleast he reaches 2. Happy breast feeding to all.
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