A little less than three months after giving birth to her first daughter Tavor, Maayan Adam launched an important service for future mothers on Wednesday when she shared a critical mistake she made shortly after giving birth. In a series of stories posted to her Instagram account, she revealed to her 292,<> followers the emotional turbulence she found herself in due to her lack of experience.
"Starting breastfeeding was a terrible, frustrating experience that lowered my confidence, hurt me, overwhelmed me with a sense of failure and mostly made me sad," Adam wrote candidly. "I want you to know. Until the baby manages to nurse properly, sometimes it takes a few days from birth, critical days when if you do not empty yourself, you will end up in congestion and an unparalleled nightmare. But the hardest thing is that I have a hungry child in my arms, that I can't connect to breastfeeding and I don't have my milk to give her, and I just cry. Shattered by it.
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"In retrospect, I made a mistake when I didn't come to the hospital with a pump. I used what was there, every day I tried something different, the part that sits on the nipple has to fit a stamp, and even the smallest one didn't fit me. No milk came out, congestion started and I almost broke down," she shared of the feelings that overwhelmed her at the time.
Adam went on to list the benefits of using a lactation pump. "If I want a glass of wine, I can pump before drinking, and then I have clean milk. Your desire and your joy and the feeling that you are alive is also important," she stressed. "I couldn't do shooting days without it, and you can't go back to work without a pump," she said.
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