The breast start

Google for images of nursing mothers and you’ll see a wide variety of calmly smiling women, nestling their babies against their breasts. Cute, right? Now compare these images to the image of the real-life woman, struggling to find the correct posture for herself, the correct position to place her newborn infant in and feeling like a miserable failure because her baby just doesn’t seem to be satisfied with breast milk! That woman was me with my firstborn.

I tried, I really did, but after three weeks of having a constantly hungry and bawling baby on