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One Mom’s Journey with Donor Milk

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This is a guest post written by Caitlin of All About Growing up and Becoming a Famous Author. I always imagined that I’d be the one donating milk. Well, not always, but I’d been turned on to the idea of Human Milk 4 Human Babies during my second pregnancy. When my son, Maxwell, was born the breastfeeding around the clock began. Through postpartum issues that required an ambulance ride and Max’s habit of back-arching and screaming through nursing sessions we persevered, pushing through the groggy haze of near constant breastfeeding and crying. It was at three months that things began to go downhill for Max. Again and again I was assured that nursing every two hours (even more often than that) in those days was normal. The screaming? Maybe I had an overactive letdown. But there was one issue that no one could explain away with reassurances of normalcy of infanthood; his first drop on the growth curve. Starting out at the seventy-fifth percentile it is heartbreaking to see my son at rock bottom, completely dropped off the chart with a big fat “zero” on his chart. When he was six-months-old I cut out dairy and we saw some improvement. […]

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