Being a mum is overwhelming, exhausting and no matter how many books, magazines, online advice you can never be fully prepared for every single aspect of it, something Heyona Cho knows all about.

 

Heyona welcomed her son Bo into the world on Wednesday, 26th October, and like a lot of us has struggled with breastfeeding since her son’s arrival.

 

Highlighting the challenges of nursing a baby, the new mum took to Instagram to share her journey in a bid to help others.

 

 

The feeling you get when your newborn cries for milk is hard to describe. The heartbreak you feel when your newborn cries and you don't have milk is even harder to describe. Nevermind that the nipples are cracked and sore, baby's cries sound like ringing alarms INside the brain and I'm desperate to do anything to alleviate his discomforts and meet his needs. When the night hits, I have to make a choice to supplement with formula or let him sleep hungry. Or more like wake up every hour, stress and fuss to calm his hungry cries, fight with my loving partner, and feel like a failure--shame. And still, which ever choice we make, nobody wins--shame. What the hell is in formula? Why does this stuff smell like rubber? Will my milk ever come in? Am I doing something wrong? Nobody ever told me. Nobody ever told me about the challenges of breastfeeding. This must be an unspoken reality for SO many new moms. I speak to myself and whoever may be struggling to feed their newborn. Feel no guilt or shame as you continue into your journey of motherhood. Some things we just cannot control, and so, we will make the best choices that we know how and we will have done it all with love in our hearts SO full that it cries out from our eyes. I love you. Bo. Ps. God is good and community is even better. Because milkmaids are a thing and I have sisters. Sisters with babies who love me and love my baby!! Community community community community. Sisterhood sisterhood sisterhood sisterhood. Mothers before me before her before her before her. Pps. Milk increases everyday and we have to supplement less and less each night

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“The heartbreak you feel when your newborn cries and you don't have milk is even harder to describe,” she writes.

 

“Nevermind that the nipples are cracked and sore, baby's cries sound like ringing alarms INside the brain and I'm desperate to do anything to alleviate his discomforts and meet his needs.[sic]”

 

However, just like the rest of us, the blogger, who lives in Washington, has said that she is torn between supplementing with formula or “letting him sleep hungry” when he wakes in the middle of the night.

 

 

“When the night hits, I have to make a choice to supplement with formula or let him sleep hungry.

 

“Or more like wake up every hour, stress and fuss to calm his hungry cries, fight with my loving partner, and feel like a failure--shame.”

 

Through her post, Heyona questions why she wasn’t producing milk, asking herself if she was doing something wrong.

 

 

In a bid to help those who are struggling like her, the mum urgings those going to difficulty to “feel no guilt or shame as you continue into your journey of motherhood.”

 

“Some things we just cannot control, and so, we will make the best choices that we know how and we will have done it all with love in our hearts SO full that it cries out from our eyes.”

 

Unsurprisingly, Heyona received huge praise for her post with many recalling similar incidences.

 

 

"My experience is exactly same as yours which was the toughest start point of being a parent," wrote one mum, while another said: "Couldn't have said it better."

 

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