When we think about breastfeeding, almost immediately we picture a super cute mother wearing a smile while looking at her perfectly content infant suckling happily at her breast. Why does this image come to our minds? Simply because it is often portrayed as this perfect relationship! Here’s the truth – breastfeeding is not as easy as you think. Is it worth it? Absolutely! Is it challenging? Absolutely!
The purpose of this article is not to discourage mothers from breastfeeding. I am all for breastfeeding! However, some of us walk into breastfeeding with high hopes and disillusioned ideas of what breastfeeding will actually be like. In this article, you will learn some of the challenges you may face during breastfeeding, how these challenges impact your mental health, and how you can find real answers to common breastfeeding challenges so you can meet your breastfeeding goals and have the best mental health possible along the way! Are you ready? Let’s get to it!
Breastfeeding Enchanted
It was 2am and my infant was up for the 3rd time already that night!
“Why is she so hungry?” I asked my husband while feeling my overly engorged breasts. They were so heavy it was painful to sit up. I struggled to get my baby to latch. Then I had a strong let-down – milk flying everywhere! Everywhere but in the one place it should go!
As I brought my baby close to latch on again, I winced in pain. My nipple was bleeding! No sooner had my baby tried to latch on that I had to pull her off.
“What am I doing wrong?!” I desperately asked my husband who was equally as confused and worried as I was.
Horrified, I looked at my hands covered in breastmilk. My baby was still screaming and I was clueless as to what to do next. My husband picked up the phone and called the nurse on call.
Welcome to day 6 of my breastfeeding journey!
Feeling Disappointed In Breastfeeding
So many mothers feel disappointed in their breastfeeding (bf) journey. Why? Partly because we have a magical, perfectly peaceful and pleasant picture of bf painted for us everywhere we go. Of course that is what every mother hopes for. The reality is that only a hand full of lucky mothers actually get that kind of bf experience.
How should you respond to that disappointment? When the going gets tough, do you give up? What if you have no support and need support? If you need advice on how to build a great support system around you, check out my article Building Your Support Network. A strong support system will prevent you from giving up bf! Be sure to check out that article!
As you can tell in my story above, I struggled with LOTS of disappointments and struggles with breastfeeding right off the bat! I mean, by the first week, I had sore, cracked, bleeding nipples, extreme engorgement, and a baby who struggled to latch and stay latched. Additionally, I was healing from a 3rd/4th degree tear, I had diastasis recti, hemorrhoids, next to no sleep, and lots of fear and disappointments.
These disappointments and challenges can take a toll on your mental health. Many mothers are not prepared for the challenges breastfeeding can bring to their overall well-being. Sometimes it is so mentally exhausting that mothers quit nursing their baby. Mental health is important and should be prioritized!
However, I wonder if these mothers had had the answers to their breastfeeding challenges if they would have continued their breastfeeding journey?
What about you? Would you prefer to have the answers to common breastfeeding challenges right in front of you? It would save you time and energy and your mental sanity!
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Get Help With Breastfeeding!
So many people believe that bf should be so natural. I believe many first time mothers start their breastfeeding journey expecting it to be relatively simple. Sure there may be some challenges, but how hard can it be, right?
This was me! I had high hopes and dreams for breastfeeding. It was something I wanted to do for both my baby’s health and mine. However, the amount of stress I faced trying to find solutions to these challenges was overwhelming!
I often yelled, “Why is this so hard? What am I doing wrong?”
Giving up wasn’t an option for me. So I kept striving to find answers.
Hours of my day were spent searching online for answers. I called nurses on call. We went to see lactation consultants. One night we even had to go to the ER because my baby had been screaming for 7 hours straight and NOTHING I was doing was making it stop!
Honestly, the “help” I received from these places were not much help at all.
Colic was one of my biggest challenges with breastfeeding (however latching, milk supply, engorgement, bleeding nipples, pumping challenges, etc. were all equally as frustrating!).
Their Help Didn’t Help
The lactation consultant couldn’t give me answers for colic or my baby’s poor latch. The ER nurse just told me to breastfeeding in different positions to help with colic and my poor nipples. When I called the nurse on call in desperation for colic, she said, “You’re doing everything right”. Obviously there was a huge disconnect somewhere!
If my baby was fine and I was doing everything right, then why was she screaming for 8 hours a day every day for months?
Fellow breastfeeding mothers! If you find yourself in this situation – struggling with breastfeeding and not finding answers. When you find yourself spending hours of your day searching everywhere for solutions to your breastfeeding challenges, stop!
Stop wasting your precious time and energy on finding answers when those things should be spent on you and your baby!
Every breastfeeding mother should have the answers to common breastfeeding challenges right at her fingertips, right?
That’s why I created the Breastfeeding Accelerator Course!
The Breastfeeding Accelerator Course!
I am beyond excited to share this course with you! The Breastfeeding Accelerator Course is designed to give mothers real solutions to common breastfeeding challenges so you don’t need to waste your time and energy desperately searching for answers like I did!
I am a certified Health Education Specialist, and everything taught in this course is backed by credible evidence.
You will gain answers to breastfeeding challenges like trouble latching, colic, tongue-tie, engorgement, mastitis, milk supply, pumping challenges, breastmilk safety, hormones and so much more!
Benefits Of This Course
Below are the benefits you gain from the Breastfeeding Accelerator Course.
- Gain confidence to overcome breastfeeding challenges
- Reach your breastfeeding goals with the knowledge you gain in this course
- Know exactly how to get a good, deep latch from day one
- Become a pro at the different nursing positions
- Understand your baby’s hunger cues
- Know the signs your baby is dehydrated
- Positions and tricks to get baby to burp
- Know the signs that your baby is drinking plenty of breastmilk
- Trust your breastmilk to meet your baby’s nutritional needs from day 1
- Understand colic: definition, causes & treatments
- Know how to prevent and treat sore, cracked or bleeding nipples
- Know what ensures a good milk supply
- Tools that work to prevent and treat engorgement and mastitis
- Learn a neat trick to save letdown milk!
- Learn a trick most moms don’t know about how to bring quick relief to a clogged duct
- Tongue-tie: what is it? How does it affect breastfeeding? Who to trust for an accurate diagnosis?
- Gain skills to overcome nursing strikes
- What to do when baby bites
- Learn how to find your correct flange size
- Steps to get your free breast pump!
- How to store breastmilk safely in the fridge, freezer, or at room temperature
- Feel no guilt in using formula while breastfeeding! Learn what is best.
- Learn what may be causing a poor latch when you and your baby are doing everything right (flat/inverted nipples & how to fix them at home!)
- Learn how to overcome painful postpartum sex & be comforted knowing you’re not alone!
- Dangers of BPA exposure to an infant’s development
- Know the growth milestones during baby’s first year!
- Signs your baby is ready to wean
- Gain peace and confidence in your breastfeeding journey by being equipped with answers and solutions for common breastfeeding problems
The BASIC & PLUS Packages
The Breastfeeding Accelerator Course is offered in two different packages – BASIC and PLUS.
In the BASIC package, you get full access to all 19 lessons in the course. Additionally, you will gain all of the benefits of the course listed above! The BASIC package is great for mothers who want to feel confident as they start or continue their breastfeeding journey.
If you’d like extra goodness, check out the PLUS package!
In the PLUS package, you get full access to all 19 lessons of the course in addition to 6 amazing bonuses!
The 6 bonuses are listed below.
- Meals That Boost Your Milk Supply Cookbook
- Food After Weaning Guide
- The Milk Production Guide Using Essential Oils
- Medications To Avoid While Breastfeeding Black Book
- Help For The Mother Who Overproduces
- Failure To Thrive – Be In The Know When Doctors Aren’t
Help Educate Mothers In India On Pregnancy Health!
When you invest in your breastfeeding journey to put yourself in a better position to be successful, you are also doing the same for another mother in need!
A portion of your purchase goes towards helping educate mothers in India on pregnancy health! What a real treasure for them as care can be hard to come by! This is done through the care of Crosspoint of India. You can learn more about them here.
Enroll Now!
You can go about breastfeeding in one of two ways. First, you can go at it by yourself and learn all the solutions to breastfeeding challenges by trial and error. I speak from personal experience, that road is exhausting and stressful! If you can avoid it, please do!
On the other hand, you can have real solutions to common breastfeeding challenges right in front of you! This will save you so much time and energy and put you in a better position to reach your breastfeeding goals!
Click below to enroll in The Breastfeeding Accelerator Course and get started!
The BASIC Package
- Access to all the core lessons within the Breastfeeding Accelerator Course
- Access to all lesson notes
- Able to download all additional downloads within the course
The PLUS Package
- Get everything from the BASIC package
- Full access to 6 super valuable bonuses! (Click below to check them out or see above)
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