Whew, baby is eating again, just in time for Mother’s Day
My first Mother’s Day and my gift is…Danny is eating well again! We had such trouble the past two weeks. First it was just hard to breastfeed, then it was really hard. Then he was cranky, cranky, never satisfied, never smiling except first thing in the morning.
Those early morning smiles were gold. Gold! They still are.
I was stressed. SO STRESSED. Did he read my stress and did that make it worse? Likely. We think the main problem was his tongue tie, which was clipped at 3 weeks but apparently was not done correctly, or enough.
The worst, to bring your child to have his tongue cut – AUGHHH – all in the name of breastfeeding and even worse to think that maybe you’re doing it out of selfishness, because you just WANT to breastfeed and this poor thing has to undergo such a procedure for …my sake? Wait. No. For his sake. Breastfeeding is the best thing I can do for him, and for us, right now. Right? But would formula or pumped milk be just fine and less stress, maybe?
Complicated.
Happy to report it’s over and we are finding our rhythm again, just in time for Mother’s Day. Happy Day to all you moms out there. I salute you with more vigor than ever before, now that I know what it’s like.
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