What No One Tells You About Breastfeeding After a C-Section or Birth Trauma

You may have had a vision for your birth. You may have pictured the skin-to-skin, the golden hour, the peaceful latch. Then reality showed up with a detour: a C-section. A traumatic delivery. A NICU stay. And suddenly you’re not only trying to keep a tiny human alive, you’re also trying to process what just happened to you.

It’s disorienting. It’s overwhelming. And it matters.

Because when your body has just been through a major medical event, or a deeply emotional one, asking it to also perform a function that’s complex and demanding (hi, breastfeeding) can feel like too much.

Breastfeeding is a relationship and not a performance. You and your baby are figuring it out together. It's not a measure of your worth.