It took me/us awhile but we’re finally in sync! Thanks to the Thompson Method knowledge I kept trying and we are enjoying our breastfeeding time together 🥰 It’s been such an intense journey to get where we are today and I’m so grateful to Dr Robyn’s life’s work and everyone at the Thompson Method for all the support. I was not going to breastfeed, I told myself, and just so I kept an open mind I bought a book on breastfeeding and the pregnancy hormones made me so emotional thinking about that connection with my future baby. The book mentioned the Thompson Method and I thought it sounded so gentle and baby led that I immediately bought the course. I’m a preschool teacher and am so pro baby led anything. I went into birth so excited about the latch and golden hours, which we got luckily but then it became immediately difficult. I broke down from the pain, nurses were pressuring me and forcing her on me, no one was listening but I knew deep down I wanted to do TTM. I ended up pumping because I was in so much pain and I became a manic mess measuring and making sure she ate the perfect amount (she had high levels of jaundice) and in the back of my mind I knew I needed to keep trying. We kept latching once a day for a few minutes and slowly worked our way up to longer and longer times. I meticulously combed through and checked TTM FB group. Wrote my own drafts of questions but never sent them, then finally we were going to take an international trip and I knew baby girl was going to need us to latch on the plane. I finally wrote my drafts to TTM FB group and Shelley Cook helped so much. I wonder sometimes if I should have kept trying harder earlier, sent those drafts sooner, but I’m happy with our journey and am determined to keep easing into exclusively BF. I still have that fear of her getting enough even though everything says she will. I’m getting there! Baby girl just turned 5 months and some of my favorite moments are when we are breastfeeding and we lock eyes and she smiles and all the milk runs out of her mouth 😂 she is so silly Or when I know the only way she will feel safe and better is when she can latch and I can do that for her. It such a good feeling when she shows signs of wanting to breastfeed and that I have the confidence now to provide that for her. So thank you, and thank you so much to Dr. Robyn 💕