Fix Parenting

When I was a new nursing mom, everyone kept telling me to relax. Relaxing was suppose to help the baby relax, but I truly could not relax. Not only was my baby not sleeping he was nursing every hour. Once in a while he would vomit it all up, and I would have to start all over again.
This was one of about a billion mistakes I made as a first time mom, I was on a low fat diet for years. And it took becoming a foster mom to realize what a mistake this was. So this is where my story gets fun, I became a Foster Mom 8 years later. Lucky me one of my first kids was a teen mom. Yes that’s right, a young mom and her new born moved into my nursery. This girl liked her fried and fatty food, she was like a size zero so that wasn’t a problem. I took her to her baby to a well check up at the hospital. The baby hadn’t gained weight, I thought that was strange, so insisted they check the young moms milk production. The poor thing, had next to nothing. Thank goodness I can be a pushy sometime. The hospital let her borrow their pump to get things moving. This mom was shy to nurse in front of anyone so pumping made sense. Well this 16 year old pumped the thickest deepest orange color of liquid gold breast milk, I had ever seen. I didn’t think this was possible.
It all clicked for me. This 16 year old had done something I could only dream of. My breast milk was like a half glass of water with 1%milk added. It was practically see through. Looking back and too late to change anything I understood where I went wrong. And its one more of those things, that you chalk up to life experience. If you choose Formula, you will want this cool tool on counter, Baby brezza is a night time blessing.