New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Mamma’s milk bar Wendy’s Herbal Helper

After 48 hours of inconsolable tears from her newborn son Anderson, despite breastfeeding him around the clock, Wendy Poon instinctively knew something was wrong.

Racing into hospital, the first-time mum was horrified to learn the situation was critical as he hadn’t been getting enough breast milk and was starving.

“I felt so guilty,” recalls Wendy, 35. “I had given birth to this perfect little being, but I had low milk supply and didn’t know I wasn’t producing enough.”

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