Trying To Breastfeed After Struggling The First Time Around

Liz De Vries had always planned to breastfeed. As a child, she "nursed" her baby dolls and when she got pregnant for the first time in 2004, she armed herself with information. She read The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding and took a breastfeeding class. "I was ready," De Vries told The Huffington Post. But after her baby was born, things quickly deteriorated. De Vries' milk did not come in, and her son was hungry. Before she was discharged from the hospital, De Vries saw a lactation consultant who showed her how to use a supplemental nursing system -- a tube that provides formula at the breast. She left hopeful that she'd soon begin producing more milk and for eight weeks, did everything...