The Latch

No one can prepare you... the first 24hours with Anke home was very hard. I called a nurse friend of my 7o'clock the next morning, in tears. "Can you come over?" I said in a very close to tears voice. It was just hard.

We could not get THE LATCH, and if you know anything about breast feeding... there is nothing without THE LATCH. So after pumping breast milk, and using a dropper, we got the milk on the breast and motivated Anke to latch... this went on for 4 days. Thanks to Carla (my nurse friend) and my dearest Mother in law and ANKE (breastfeeding is a team sport) we've got this thing DOWN!!!

In this photo Anke is chilling with her Daddy. She is one week old in the photo, time does go by very quickly.