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Mom, Dad and Me

These Dads Support Breastfeeding!

By Kelly Burgess

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For a full year, Jamie brought Owen to Rachel's work three times a day for personal nursing sessions. It wasn't easy, but Jamie was convinced that keeping the nursing relationship going between his wife and son was the right thing to do. Even her co-workers, none of whom are mothers, embraced the family's commitment.

"I credit Jamie with saving our breastfeeding relationship when I wanted to quit," says Rachel Simpson. "Somewhere around my third bout of mastitis, I fell apart – at about 3:30 a.m. I cried and yelled, 'That's it! I quit! I just can't do this anymore!' But he kept saying, 'Use your resources. Just make one phone call. Start there. I know you can do this.' I did and we got through it all, and I'm so happy that I continued. I feel like breastfeeding is an investment in our family, and now – months after our troubles – I feel like we're really reaping the rewards of our investment, financially, physically and emotionally. As he was my coach during our pregnancy, he was my coach during breastfeeding."

Not a Mechanical Act
The little breastfeeding secret the Simpsons learned is that breastfeeding isn't always sunshine, roses and soft focus. Many fathers and mothers don't realize that breastfeeding isn't always as easy as it looks, and sometimes it doesn't go smoothly – or as planned.

Christopher Healy of New York, N.Y., is an unusually involved and well-informed father. A former writer for Child Magazine and author of Pop Culture: The Sane Man's Guide to the Insane World of New Fatherhood

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