“My husband can breastfeed just as well as I can …

When I had my little girl, I was determined to breastfeed. My husband and I went to the class and I had a best friend that had nursed 4 kids successfully. It was supposed to go easy. We didn’t know for 2 days that I had a complication from my epidural called a spinal headache. I was leaking spinal fluid and my brain was sagging down onto my skull. No one caught it until they were going to discharge me. I had told anyone who would listen that I had such a bad headache that I literally couldn’t move my head, much less nurse well or do anything. Unless I was laying down flat, I just wanted to cry. The nurses kept telling me that I was just sore from delivering. What did they know! I was the one that was miserable. Finally, the nurse that was to discharge me figured out my problem.

But back to the nursing. So when the lactation consultants would come and show us what to do, (they were WONDERFUL!) they would show us how to nurse while laying on my side. I would lay down and my husband would get my little girl to latch on, nurse, and then he would burp her. He had to do this for the first 6 days as I was supposed to be on bed rest so that my spinal injury would heal. He was so good at it that he had to keep “flipping” her lip even after I was able to nurse on my own. He was better at it because he spent more time with the lactation consultant working with the baby than I did due to my headache.

So to all of you dads out there, listen good! You too can breastfeed. My phenomenally wonderful husband is proof of that.”

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