Breastfeeding Journey

We briefly celebrated Arya turning 6 months old on the 25th of last month, but instead of posting my usual baby update, I wanted to share an update on our 6 month breastfeeding journey. And mainly, I just want to celebrate the fact that we’ve made it this far — especially with a fun giveaway below! For some strange reason, the moment I found out I was pregnant with Arya, I just knew that I was going to try to breastfeed. I knew nothing about it, let alone how challenging it can be — but I was just curious enough...

I always knew I wanted to breastfeed my children. In my mind, it was just another check off the list. Get engaged, buy a house, get married, get pregnant, have baby, breastfeed baby. But it wasn't until I was in my third trimester of pregnancy that I finally truly thought about what it would mean to breastfeed. And once I started thinking about it, I started to get anxious. What if breastfeeding wasn't easy? What if it was harder than it looked? How would I know when the baby was full? I also remember thinking how weird it would be...

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My son was born at 40+2 gestation and he was perfect. My birth was a disaster-he had huge decelerations from 132 baseline down to 60 with my contractions. I'd had 3 days of prodromal labour before things got started for real and I was exhausted. I labored for as long as I could, and made no progress! Cue the first of many interventions-breaking my water. My water was broken manually, I had an epidural, an IV because I was GBS positive, constant fetal monitoring, we tried replacing my amniotic fluid to stop the decelerations which didn't work, 4 catheters, Pitocin...

My name is Tasha and I'm 29 years old. I have a 6 month old that had a rough start with our breastfeeding journey. When he was born until 2 months old, every single time he'd nurse, he'd cry. He'd cry for hours on end. We finally visited a lactation consultant because I was worried it was my milk supply. Grayson was diagnosed with a lip & tongue tie that we got revised at 2 months. He already had such a hard time efficiently transferring milk that the revision didn't help us with nursing. I decided I still wanted to...