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Story of my flat nipples. Hi ka, Hope you remember me. I attended your last year April pre-pregnancy session. I gained lot of confidence from your session. You are a true lucky charm. After a month I got pregnant. I delivered a baby girl at end of February. She is 3.5 months old now.

My pregnancy was a high risk pregnancy, with bleeding at first 2 month, then had severe vomitting till 5th month, and cervix got open around 25 weeks and got emergency Cerclage and was on complete bed rest and corona😒.Finally delivered my baby at end of 37 week.

Even after delivery I was shattered hearing from my lactation counselor, that I have flat nipples so it would be difficult to breast feed. They asked me to pump the milk and feed the baby using a spoon. I fed her 2 hours once by expressing milk. I tried a lot initially, It was completely difficult to for her to latch , as she would search for the nipple but couldn’t catch it in her mouth properly. I used to sit and cry holding her, I was gifted with breast milk but couldn’t feed her. Family started suggesting to start formula seeing me getting depressed in feeding her.

Whenever I had complications in pregnancy I remembered your word, “Trust your body”. I trusted my baby and body. I used to take her and try to feed her happily whenever she is awake. Most days I failed. Sometimes she gets irritated and cry, I used to try again and again and within a month she latched from both side happily. Even a lactation counselor from a reputed hospital failed to make her latch and ask me to try nipple shield , but I was not interested in nipple shields.

I trusted me and my baby, I used to speak to hold her gently and happily and tried to latch with patience. Suddenly 1 day she latched. And we started a exclusive breastfeeding journey. Now a days I am hearing a lot of stories like mother loses confidence, when baby doesn’t latch or starts with bottle. I would like to tell them please have patience and try again and again happily. Trust your kid, trust your self. Happy parenting. Thankyou for your support and replies to my queries whenever I need