Well it’s happened again. Low milk supply. THE most dreaded thing in a nursing mom’s world. Today I took my little Levi to the dr for a well check and he’s LOST weight. UGH! TERRIBLE NEWS! Babies traditionally gain around a pound every 2 weeks so he should be about 2 pounds heavier. And he wasn’t…

So, after talking with my mentor and IBCLC, I have been instructed to have a babymoon. This is an unfamiliar term for most people so I will explain. A babymoon is pretty much like a honeymoon. You stay in bed with your darling (baby) for 3 days straight. You get plenty of rest and nurse, nurse, nurse. Sounds great huh?! Well, it would be ideal if, well, if maybe I only had him in my life. But I don’t. I have two other precious darlings who seem to think that I have been placed in their world to solely take care of them. This will be interesting! Thank the Lord that it is almost the weekend so my husband will be home to help. However, I feel as though he secretly thinks that this is a plot to stay in bed, watch tv, do zero housework and just simply do absolutely nothing but ”take care of my little one.” 😀

I’m also going to go BACK on a miracle drug called Domperidone. It is an extremely safe medication that will increase milk supply when all other efforts have failed. Yea, I do feel like a failure. Aren’t our bodies just supposed to whip up this stuff and know exactly what to do? Well, yea, but mine apparently didn’t get the memo…all 3 times… Oh, well, it is a price I have to pay to give my Levi the absolute BEST thing out there. Whenever us breastfeeding mommas get discouraged, we have to go back to the basics and read ALL the statistics of what our BF babies get in breastmilk opposed to formula (YUCK!) I do have to say though, I have always envied those ladies who complain about having too much milk… leaking milk, having to use liners for their bras, and who sometimes have babies choke because their milk is just flowing so freely that their baby simply can not drink quick enough…yea, poor you…what a terrible problem to have…

But like I said before, lower chances of diabetes, heart disease, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, childhood lukemia, and a ton of other awful diseases for him and me, increased IQ, better immunity, and lots of money saved, makes every single bit of this worth it.