This year’s World Breastfeeding Week, themed “Support breastfeeding for a healthier planet’”, called for government-private sector partnerships to protect and promote women’s access to breastfeeding counselling.
The pressure from all quarters isn’t helping and stress has taken over your brain
Which in turn has sent signals to the girls not to release any nutritious drinks come what may.
Having just evaluated your not so applause-worthy threshold of pain, you sit up exhausted, but eager to glimpse at the life you just brought into this world. Holding the tiniest human being you have ever seen, you are overcome with immense joy knowing this is the fruit of the last nine months of penguin walks, damage to your bathroom scale, throwing up all over and a “broken” back.
Next step, breastfeeding. How hard could that be? Brace yourself. Latch, latch, nothing? You hold the baby for what seems like ages, but it isn’t getting anything. The nurse tries to teach you how to hold the baby and give you tips on how to get it suckling away. Nothing. you’re advised to relax, take a deep breath and keep trying. You are sore, agitated and on the brink of breaking down, “relax” is not in your vocabulary.
