Breastfeeding After C-Section Success Stories

I wanted to share some good news. Baby boy had his check up the other day. After birth he was in the 10th percentile and now at 2 months he is at the 75th! Went from 6lb 12 oz to 14 lbs!

Somethings don’t go as planned. I think the only thing you can do is be prepared for the unexpected to happen. One month Old and he is thriving on 💯 momma made milk. 1 pound 14 oz at birth 30.1 weeks GA and now 3 pounds 9 oz. at 34.3 weeks GA. Had a emergency c section due to IUGR found at 29 weeks. 48 hours later full on liquid gold!

Exclusively pumping is hard, being a NICU momma and the rollercoaster is hard. Having to watch your baby get a blood transfusion and countless test because they are trying to find the answers to the issue they can’t explain other than just premie complications gut wrenching. Yet here he is strong happy and giving the nurses heck every chance he gets (personally o think he likes the attention). ❤️💯 so glad I set out to educate myself for breastfeeding and found the Thompson Method. Never once did my medical team not support me in my goals. More importantly I know when we finally get the chance to breastfeed I have amazing support along the way.

I post on here a lot for advice but this one is just a post to say thank you. 1 month old EBF and I’m not sure I could have done the breastfeeding journey without this program. So different than my son who started in the nicu. They pushed bottles and did not support the breastfeeding journey.

We hired lactation consultants for him who only made things more stressful... They pushed that he had tongue and lip ties (which my doctor said maybe he had a little but was against the surgery thankfully).

I fought for 6 months with him with nipple covers, pumping, donated breast milk, and formula. It was aweful. I’m so glad I decided to make the purchase of Dr. Robyns program literally in the hospital while waiting for my c-section with my daughter. I have already recommended the program and will continue to do so. I’m sure I’ll post a million more questions but for now saying thank you ❤️

"Finally had our baby girl today via c section. Elizabeth Is 8 lbs 9 oz and 20.5 inches long. She had a stressful entrance into the world... 36 hours of laboring to figure out her head was stuck in my pelvis. Made no progress from 9cm dilated. Doctor and we opted for a C Section since I was absolutely exhausted and ready to just have this baby in my arms!

Success story... they have to monitor her for 4 hours because of the stress and she had meconium... They brought her to me for a while to breastfeed. The nurse had me hold her like a football due to my csection cut. Baby girl latched right on but it hurt. Nurse left the room and I moved her to do the Thompson method and it was pain free and she was a pro! Thank you sooo much for all of the information! We will continue practicing! "

"This Is Nicolas Angelo Rodriguez. Born January 22nd, 2021 at 2:08pm. We had to have an emergency c- section due to his heart rate rapidly decreasing. I was so scared 🥺 all I wanted to know was if my baby was okay. Instead of 3 golden hours we got 12 uninterrupted hours of time together.

He latched instantly and I haven’t had any pain, the nurses all claimed they never seen anything like it! We are doing great and hoping to go home tomorrow. Thank you Thompson Method for helping me prepare for the unexpected!🏆 Update: forgot to mention he was 9lbs 5oz and 20.5 inches long!"

"Breastfeeding success: one of my favourite photos so far of my girls, my eldest breastfeeding her doll while I feed her baby sister 🥰 I am so glad I found this program. I haven't wanted to jynx my breastfeeding success but my second daughter is 4 weeks old tomorrow and we have exclusively breastfed! My first everything went wrong, her first feed was formula because she wouldn't latch and I wasn't educated, the hospital put me on shields, she had to be drip fed, did breast refusal from 6 weeks, had to pump all the time, supply issues, she had a dummy and it destroyed a lot of confidence I had as a first time mum and really impacted my mental health. Fast forward 4.5 years and educating myself in birth and breastfeeding. Today I can finally say I can trust my instincts and my body to feed my baby! Quinn was born at 5.2kgs which made me nervous trying to keep up with her needs but she's been a dream.

No formula, no bottles, no dummy, no stress. Both my girls were born via c section but two very different birthing and breastfeeding experiences."

A week ago today I had my third Son after a 10 year gap. During my pregnancy I stumbled across a video of Dr. Thompson and was immediately drawn in to her message on Breastfeeding as my two previous sons I had experienced every breastfeeding issue you can have. To be honest when she spoke of little to no pain breast feeding, I didn't believe her as much as I wanted to, when it's the only way you've experienced breastfeeding and the same with every other woman around you, it is kinda hard to believe. I sat on the fence about purchasing her program and just watched as many of the videos she put out on social media. About four weeks out from Birth I stopped being a skeptical tart Lols and bought her $99 program. I didn't have time to watch every single video, in fact I was pissed at myself for not getting it when I first saw it as I could have got more from it over the course of my pregnancy. I prepared my birth plan and unfortunately it got thrown out the window because of an emergency c section. However, to the best of my ability under the stressful and traumatic circumstances, as soon as baby was able to be placed on me I started to follow as best I could what I could remember from the videos I watched.

Apart from a few midwives trying to shove baby's head onto my nipple and me telling them to back off I experienced the most peaceful, stressless and pain free breastfeeding first week with my baby. I'm beyond amazed. It felt so easy, so right and what every mother deserves to experience. I'm so grateful I stumbled across that video six months ago. Thank you Dr Thompson.

"For anyone worried about c section, having an emergency, or delivering early... it is possible! We finally did it while in the NICU! I had to stand my ground on my wishes to breastfeed and they will now do weights before and after until we go home (next week❤️❤️❤️). It took us some time for this 37 week premie to figure it out, but he latched and fed for 10 minutes until he fell asleep.

No reflux, no Brady’s or desaturations. He started doing this today after being fed a bottle and rush to finish... He has never been so content after feeds🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼. Lactation and nurses were shocked how well he did even for a premie and how gentle and easy it went. “We never expect a latch much less a baby to feed the first try”! I literally was in tears last night because I felt like I had no say over my child or my desires as his mom while in the NICU. They didn’t want us to breastfeed because not knowing how much he gets and he would have episodes from time to time with nurses bottle feeding. Yet when I used the bottle feeding method learned from The Thompson Method no issues. A big Thank You to the Thompson Method!"

"So just wanted to share. I havent finished all the videos yet and had a ton of health problems during pregnancy. But I had a emergency c-section yesterday at 36 + 4. I wasn't able to hold my baby or do golden hours till about an hour after he was born. But once I did I was able to try to breastfeed and he latched instantly with a little help with positioning due to pain from surgery. Since then he has been doing amazing and latching every time! I may not have seen all the videos but from the few I have seen have helped so much in making me confident I can breastfeed. This is my 4th and final baby and the 1st one I have been able to successfully latch and feed!"

"Just a huge thank you to this program and Rachael Austin - Midwife. I got this program while pregnant because I was determined to breastfeed. Then nothing went right. Birth plan out the window delivered emergency c section due to IUGR @30.1, 59 days in the NICU... We’ve been home 2 weeks... when I got home we were only at one breastfeeding session a day and latching on one side only. Feeling defeated mom guilt etc., so I did a rescue.

During the 14 days we have had major feats and figured out a lot of issues going on (nipple confusion, oversupply, bottle feeding, latch, etc.). I was happy to let Rachael know today that we were breastfeeding 5/8 feeds, pain free one side, and still had hopeful plans for the chiropractor to help resolve latch on Monday. Although feeling down because of dr appointments and the system today making me second guess myself, and baby boy having painful reflux issues... yet again I was met with amazing support, encouragement and kindness from her❤️. Then we wrapped up with an amazing surprise during our feed when Augustus decided to finally just latch from the side he wouldn’t.

👏🏻😲 Finally WE had a full successful pain free feed from each side with rest and digest ... 🤷🏼‍♀️🙌🏼❤️💯 Thank you!

Not enough words to describe my appreciation for this program, group and professionals.

So thankful for all the help and knowledge I have received along this journey since the beginning.
Born 12/9/20 @ 1 pound 15 ounces
NICU discharge 2/8/21@4 pounds 15 ounces
2 week checkup fed breastmilk and NO additives supplements etc 2/25/21 @ 5 pounds 10 ounces.

Thank you a million times for giving me the confidence to trust my instincts, the knowledge to ask the hard questions, and question things when needed. 🙌🏼❤️💯"

Today we’ve reached our 12 months breastfeeding milestone 🙌🏽 with no plans to stop until James decides.

I’d like to thank Dr Robyn from the bottom of my heart for her help and support. I’ve been really quiet on here, but as Dr Robyn says, I followed my instincts and we found our own groove.

Our start wasn’t easy, labelled as high risk from 13 weeks, I knew that my pregnancy and birth would be highly managed in the system. The gentle birth and breastfeeding plan gave me a great template to put forth my wishes to the MFM team. I had a call with Robyn prior to birth so that I could best prepare for what lay ahead and to help with expressing colostrum which would be needed.

Born via c-section we didn’t get skin to skin, James was whisked off to special care soon after birth. I was only able to hold him for the first time at three days old, after he’d had surgery to repair an abdominal defect. For the first week he was tube fed my EBM. With the knowledge I’d gathered from the course I was able to push to get started on breastfeeding, otherwise he could have been tube fed for much longer.

I’d been very clear that no dummies or bottles were to be used, especially in my absence. I refused to let the nurses in special care force James onto my breast and ignored theirs and (the rather hopeless) lactation consultant’s recommendations to use the cross cradle hold.

With further support from Robyn, I was able to advocate for James and myself far better; things like not mixing large volumes of my EBM together for his tube feeds and got him out of there two weeks after his birth (at times it felt like we were in jail), at their slow pace we could have easily been in for another 1-2weeks. I told all of the nurses about the Thompson method and whilst I’m sure I annoyed some of them because I wasn’t being compliant and following their guidelines,

I do think some of the younger ones took notice and were going to research it more. Once home I called on Robyn again to help with positioning and a blocked duct, all resolved with her wonderful advice . I have no doubt that our breastfeeding journey may not have even begun or may have been curtailed without the help of Dr Robyn and the Thompson method program, so for that I will be forever grateful! 🤱🏽💕"