Gratitude post Before I started the Thompson method I never thought in a million years I would be posting this. Today marks 3 months of successful pain free and problem free breastfeeding my third son. with my first son I had severe nipple trauma, repeated bouts of incredibly bad mastitis and ended up in hospital with an abscess. I felt like the people who should have been supporting me really let me down with many different midwives and health visitors failing to spot that I had thrust in my nipples. I felt completely lost and didn’t know where to turn or help. The excruciating pain stress and anxiety lead me to give up when he was about 10 weeks old. My second son was born 18 months later and when I came down with a severe case of mastitis when he was 5 weeks old I decided to give up straight away as I couldn’t face going through the trauma of what I went through with my first again. I had all my babies at home and desperately wanted to breastfeed them both and it really impacted me that I couldn’t. 5 years later and I had my Third son on 30th Aug this year. I had come across the Thompson method early in my pregnancy and purchased the course. I genuinely believed that someone was wrong with my breasts so didn’t hold much hope that it would work but I am so delighted to be posted this to say that it did! It’s be plain sailing since day one. I never thought I could make it to 3 months let alone without a single issue! This is the longest I have ever managed to breastfeed and I hope this journey continues the way it has started. I will be forever grateful to Dr Robyn and her team for being courageous enough to challenge the status quo when it comes to breastfeeding. I only wish this was rolled out in the NHS and maybe I could have had successful outcomes with my older boys.