Lauren Moses-Brettler had a really rough start nursing her first baby, Holden, who wouldn?t latch for almost a week after he was born. ?It was the most stressful experience of my entire life,? she recalls. ?I wasn?t sleeping, which was the biggest shock to the system ever, and I was losing my mind trying to pump every few hours.? Meanwhile, her partner, Damian, was finger-feeding Holden with a tube taped to his finger.

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7 breastfeeding tips every nursing mom has to readIt turned out that he had a significant tongue tie, which was missed both in the maternity ward and at the breastfeeding clinic. It was caught by a private lactation consultant who came to her home. ?She was like our angel; our lifesaver,? she says. They got the tie released, but by that point her supply had been affected because Holden hadn?t been effectively nursing in those crucial early days after birth, so her body had gotten the message that it didn?t need to make much milk. The answer for her was the drug domperidone, which brought her supply up so she was able to nurse him, which she did for close to three years.
But she never forgot the stress of worrying about her supply. So, when she was pregnant with her second child, Dorian, she and her midwife came up with a plan to e...