One Day You'll Thank Me by Cameran Eubanks Wimberly

Author:Cameran Eubanks Wimberly [Wimberly, Cameran Eubanks]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 2021-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight ON THE BOOB

Between being CEO of a billion-dollar business I started in my living room and being a mom, I can say for SURE being a mom is harder!

—JAMIE KERN LIMA, FOUNDER OF IT COSMETICS AND MOTHER OF TWO

The hardest part of the first year of motherhood was, well, not being prepared for how hard the first year of motherhood was going to be. Now, let me preface this by saying it is absolutely NOT this way for everyone. Some women have no problem losing sleep. Some women don’t have postpartum depression and some women experience very little hormone fluctuation. Some absolutely love having their babies on their boobs. God bless them! For some, it all comes naturally. Or so they say. Well, I ain’t going to lie. For me, y’all, it did not come naturally.

One of most unnatural parts was breastfeeding—something I got asked about all the time. Actually, come to think of it, it was one of the top questions I got from EVERYONE while I was pregnant with my buttercup: do you plan on breastfeeding? What is it with people’s obsession with how I choose to feed my baby? Even total strangers would ask me this question. Did they just want to start a conversation and think it was an easy icebreaker? It seemed really odd to me at the time and very intrusive. So much so that I addressed it on social media. I responded that I would feed my baby however I saw fit. I wanted other new moms to know that if they weren’t able to breastfeed, their babies would be okay!

I had done research on nursing prior to having Palmer and knew two things for sure: for some women it was easy, and for some women it was hard. (I guess like most aspects of motherhood. Actually, most aspects of life.) When I checked into the hospital to have my baby, the nurse asked me, “Bottle or breast?”—meaning, did I plan to nurse or bottle-feed my baby? Like many women, my mode of thinking was, Breastfeeding is what our bodies were designed to do, so I’m at least going to give it a shot. The nurse wrote “breast” on my chart. Um… Guess that means I’m committed.

Within five minutes of Palmer being born, the nurse propped her up on my left boob. Well, here we go… it’s D-Day. Is she gonna latch or be a problem feeder? I thought. Come on, P, you can do it! I had zero expectations of what my experience would be like. Luckily, she latched right on and began eating like a champ. The nurses even commented about what a good feeder she was. What I did not know at the time is that it wasn’t my milk that she was drinking; it was something called colostrum. This is the first secretion from your boobs after giving birth. It’s rich in all the good-for-you protein and important antibodies, which help build your baby’s immune system. It also helps the baby’s digestive system get off to a good start.

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