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Breastfeeding as a First time Mom

 As a first time Mother, my breastfeeding journey started off on a slippery slope. I remember being taken to the Maternity Ward from Theatre with the drugs still wearing off my body - I couldn't feel my legs!😩😩 The [womxn] doctor who'd left the Theatre room with my baby came back  with her so beautYfully wrapped up (something I sucked at even after BoMma patiently showed me how to in 3 easy steps🀣🀣). She showed me how to hold baby against my body cum breast, and feed her. It sounded as easy as she showed me until I had to try it myself.πŸ™†πŸ½‍♀️πŸ™†πŸ½‍♀️ She put LESEDI besides me and left; I asked the nurse who came in to help me lie down probably and gurl did she not tell me how it wasn't her job.😩😩 I turned slowly until LESEDI seemed well positioned to start latching and feeding. I felt like a pro, but was I?? The next morning, the old nurses came  in shouting through corridors about how "Baby shouldn't be making sounds during a feed - You're doing  it wron...