My Name is Mirali n I delivered a Baby girl on 6th October 2018. My feeding journey was not very easy as it was a c-sec. My left side breast was engorged and sored. It was super hard n painful. My baby was not being able to suck the milk properly.

I thought my milk production was less but soon I met Dr. Deanne. She was a blessing in disguise literally. She helped me with my problem n encouraged me a lot. It took me almost a month to recover but Dr. Deanne was always there to help. I had attended Cloud nine's breastfeeding programs before my delivery which helped me a lot later to deal with my problem. Because of this I could even explain my family what could be done.

We welcomed our beautiful girl on 16th Jan, 2019. I was not able to breastfeed on the day she was born. It was quite disheartening for me. She was given top feed for the time being. I found encouragement to feed her through my husband and my lactation consultant. Dr. Deanne guided me on ways to feed her, how to latch her and how to understand her hunger cues. Slowly we both adapted to each other. The top feed was reduced and later completely stopped. My breastfeeding journey is still going strong at 6 months.

At the very beginning it took me 3 days to get a hang of feeding my child... my daughter would be cranky as hungry and I wasn't feeding correctly. When a baby is just born, it's very tiny and you are very paranoid and scared at that moment. Proper guidance and patient help is the most important need of the hour. I remember Dr. Deanne standing by me for hours together until all was normal.

She suggested a feeding pillow and that was a blessing for my back. Dr. Deanne would be just a msg away. I had difficult times with painful blisters on my nipples and she got me out of it. I had 0 knowledge about how to feed, how many times to feed, how to ease out heavy breasts, use a pump, take care of breasts and nipples... all of this I learnt through Drs help.