All through my pregnancy, I kept hearing about how hard pregnancy and labour are. It often ended in “Once you hold that baby all will be forgotten and it is so worth it”. Yes, it was all forgotten only because it was replaced by the pain from my stitches and my sore nipples.
Then they tell you to breastfeed every 2 hours, but the 2 hours are counted from the time you start breastfeeding. If it took you from 10 to 10:45 for one session you should be feeding again at 1200. Hardly enough time to recuperate from the first session before the next. And to make matters worse, your family will hand the child over to you for feeding every time the baby starts crying. ” He must be hungry”. Yeah, but there could be any number of reasons- wet diapaer, gas, he feels cold. I could give you so many reasons other than hunger but seems like that is the easiest one to fix. Hand over baby to mom!
It’s been a few weeks since those gruelling days and things are better now. I am better at deciphering his cries and breastfeeding isn’t that frequent.
