Breastfeeding is promoted as an easy and natural experience that every woman and baby can achieve. It’s boasted as the best for both mother and baby. If you have an infant who struggles to breastfeed, you’re often instantly suggested formula. The amount of knowledge pediatricians and general practitioners have about breastfeeding is so limited that they frequently jump to removing this variable from the equation in order to “solve” problems.…
At five months old, we flew to Wisconsin to visit some of my family. It was such a nice visit. But, Jett caught his first cold. His seemingly “OK” nursing vanished. We took him to the doctor when we returned to South Carolina and found that he hadn’t gained any weight in a month and a half. He was also prescribed an antibiotic as his cold had progressed. So had…
Jett entered our lives in a fury. He was feisty from the start! After ten weeks of bedrest for preterm labor (he couldn’t wait to meet us!), I had sudden onset preeclampsia and underwent an emergency induction. 44 hours later, and Jett’s heart rate was decelerating and we had to get him out immediately. The emergency C section was tough to handle as we’d taken classes and prepared for a…