Giving thanks for the support you had with breastfeeding.

Earlier this week I encouraged everyone to provide feedback to their hospitals about your breastfeeding experiences.  While I mentioned both good and bad experiences, the emphasis was a bit more on the bad.

So I thought, during this week of giving thanks, that I'd balance things out by encouraging you to write to anyone who has made your breastfeeding experience better.  It might be a nurse or La Leche League Leader, but it might also be your husband or sister or best friend. 

I have a folder of cards (right) with letters of thanks from moms, and I love adding to it.  I'm not sharing this to brag, but more to show you that I, like everyone involved in breastfeeding support, take feedback very seriously.  The cards say, among other things:

"Without your support and knowledge, we would have given up in the first week."
"You helped make it the best experience it could have been."
"I am eternally grateful for your patience and help during some of the toughest days."
"May you be blessed in the way you have blessed so many others."
"Breastfeeding was really tough for me, but with your help I was able to succeed."
"We couldn't have made it this far without you."
"We'll never forget the night we barged into your clinic full of tears and thinking we might have to give up nursing!"
"These are true gifts that brought many moments of ease into the sometimes rocky transition into parenthood."

I've written a few of my own such letters, one to the midwife and doula who were there for my son's birth, and one to a doctor who went above and beyond for me. 

Have you?

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