When you become a mother, it's wonderful and amazing but you don't really know what to expect. You read all the books, take the parenting classes and listen to your doctors, but you are still always going to have questions and doubts.
There is that whole theory floating around about mother's intuition. Is it true? Will you just know what to do? Or is this just something that people say to ease the minds of nervous new moms? I don't really know, but what I do know is that when you love a child you want to do your very best for them. When you are doing something that is supposed to be so beneficial and good for you child, the last thing that would enter your mind is that you are causing harm.
Mandy, a mother who thought she was doing the best thing for her child by breastfeeding him, found out that he was actually starving.
In the summer of 2016, Mandy gave birth to a son weighing 6lbs 5oz. In her blog post, Mandy states that she had problems getting her son to latch due to flat nipples so she was given a shield to help with breastfeeding.
Some friends in mommy groups told her that his activity was normal and he was just cluster feeding.
At her son's 1 month appointment, Mandy's son only weighed 6 pounds 5.5 ounces.
This is when things started to change...
The lactation consultant weighed the baby, then Mandy fed him, and then they weighed him again.
Mandy continued on this routine and her son continued to grow and thrive, but Mandy's breast milk supply didn't seem to increase. Not only that, whenever her son would nurse it would lead to "restlessness turned into full on screaming".
Her doctor had given her the validation that she was looking for.
