Hello everyone! Salam!

So ftm here to a boy. He’s 7 weeks old MashaAllah. This is an appreciation post as well as awareness post for all the mammas to be.

I always wanted to breastfeed my babies. It was Always a thing that I just had to do due to the massive benefits I had read about it for the baby and mother. As well as I had read about how much sawab there is in our religion to feed the child.

Anyway 30 minutes post partum, I fed my baby without zero help. Somehow managed to get that colostrum into his mouth with zero idea if I was doing it right. He drank for like a few minutes and slept and this kept on going for the next 3 days. He was waking up after every 20 minutes or less and in this moment I fell to the ISKA PAIT NAHE BHAR RAHA ISLIYEH RO RAHA HAI.

I had enforgement but he couldn’t latch properly. I watched like 6789 videos on YouTube to latch him and he just wouldn’t do it right. I tried all the manual pumps and Hnd pumping. I used to cry looking at him because I didn’t want to give him formula but then we just had to. And there he was sucking on the bottle and sleeping hence me believing this is what it is. I still used to somehow latch him with whatever I was doing. I tried every totka in the world to get “THAT MILK SUPPLY”.

Later I got mastitis, thats when I realised there is enough but its probably not coming out due to the poor latch. I didn’t take a single antibiotic or anything. I just latched him with all that I had and
bore the pain but it went away in 5 days. Alhumdulillah.

After this traumatic episode I found out about this group randomly on my Facebook (because you know how you Google stuff and it pops up everywhere). I posted my query here about how to bring my baby back to the breast from a bottle. That’s how I ran into Hareem and I attended a session with her.

That session Definately changed my life. She was my last ray of hope and I was adamant on bringing my child back to breast and alhumdulillah with her help and Allahs I was able to do it in about ten days. I didn’t go cold turkey on the bottle but I offered him breast in every feed before bottle. I went low on ounces and so on. Eventually I was able to have him leave the bottle now Alhumdulillah. I still get to hear iska pair nahe bhara is liyeh he wakes up or he sleeps alot because iska BP low hogaya hai isko feeder do etc. Utter BS!!!!

Anyway long story short, I am from the core of my heart grateful for this group and Hareem for being there in every way possible. Getting back to my all time queries and motivating me all the time that I can do it.

If it wasn’t for her guidance I wouldn’t have had been able to do this. So thankyou Hareem for the platform. Thankyou for your constant support. May Allah reward you and your family for your work immensely. Ameen ❤ ❤ ❤

And to all the worried Mothers about supply. Please don’t be. You got this. Don’t give up. God bless xx!!