World Breastfeeding Week is from October 1st to 7th. This year’s theme highlights the importance of providing support to breastfeeding moms and their families. A guest blogger, Melanie Foster shares her experience learning to breastfeed her daughter and how a support system helped.

Here’s Melanie’s story.

When my daughter arrived, the midwife gave her to my partner and guided him to place her on my bare chest, skin-to-skin. She cried with all her might and looked into my eyes. I stroked her face and at that moment, started to think about breastfeeding.

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