Shiri Kupferberg, star of the second season of "Wedding at First Sight," who gave birth to her eldest son Ari last August as a single parent, decided Wednesday to bravely share with her Instagram followers the moments of frustration and devastation that accompanied her in her first weeks as a new mother, against the backdrop of her attempts to breastfeed her baby.
"I'm going through a very busy and intense month and a half," Kupferberg declared. "I didn't even arrange myself before I started filming. But there's something I've wanted to talk about for a long time. Throughout my pregnancy, and even before I got pregnant, I had a fantasy that I would breastfeed my child. I knew it wasn't something that was taken for granted and didn't always work out. So first of all it's important for me to say that it's individual. Even now, throughout the period I've been breastfeeding, it's full of difficulties. I had a lot of days at the beginning and even until recently I said to myself, 'Enough, it's not for me, it's too hard, it's too intense, it's demanding, it's full of questions and doubts.'
"I admire mothers who do this for many months and dedicate themselves to it, it's not easy at all. By the same token, baby formula is tough and has a lot of doubts. Both options are not simple, but amazing," she stressed.
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"I wanted to say that every mother is an amazing mother to her child, no matter how she chooses to feed him," Shiri clarified, and immediately moved on to give advice from her experience. "What helped me was to ask girls who were breastfeeding what their tip was, so they told me to take breastfeeding counseling before giving birth. Now, it's a bit of a hallucination. Still everything is in my head, but I turned to Daphne (doula and lactation consultant) and she gave me tips that seeped into my head and after the birth I came with some knowledge and some understanding that did help me, for sure. She gave me tools that at the moment of truth in the hospital, when I was alone with Ari, after the birth, I knew how to do it. How to put it on me, what to expect, what not to expect, what to do. I received tools and understanding, and it helped me," she concluded.
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