So how did I come across the idea of breastfeeding?

While expecting my first baby, I happenned to be working in an infantcare centre based in a women’s and children’s hospital – lucky me! My colleagues included nurses and aides who would share little nuggets of information on breastfeeding and related child health issues. They shared that the ability to produce breastmilk was not only dependant on the mother’s nutrition but that having a positive mindset – I CAN and am ABLE to do this – and a supportive environment was just as important.

A few friends have since shared that they stopped trying to breastfeed because they felt unsure about producing sufficient breastmilk and that the people around them (who happenned to be, more often than not, their own mums or MILs) would comment, “Is that (breastmilk) enough?” , “Why don’t you use (such-and-such) formula. The advertisement says it’s full of added nutrients.” I guess comments like these, coming from people close to you, really undermines the confidence of any new mother attempting to breastfeed.

I came across this little story about having proper support when breastfeeding. Read this somewhere too – ‘the key to sustained breastfeeding is confident commitment’.

www.mybreastmilkbaby.com