Please note: for any mother struggling for to breastfeed, or for those who tried and it didn't work out, please know that I am a STRONG believer in the saying, "fed is best" and in no way am I implying that breastfeeding is better than bottle feeding.
Eva is now almost eight weeks old and I can say with certainty that we have figured breastfeeding out . No one really told me when I had Lydia, but breastfeeding is one of the most challenging things I have ever done. I knew the difficulties going in the second go around, but I had hope that it would be easier this time. The early weeks of breastfeeding are intense and time consuming. Even though I had been through it before, I still was second guessing myself, worried that Eva wasn't gaining weight.
I told my husband after the first few weeks in, that I did not understand why breastfeeding was so hard on mothers. If we are naturally built for it, why doesn't it happen more easily between mother and child? Why should we have to worry abou...