Today we share one woman's breastfeeding journey in her own words through a recent interview we conducted. We worked with Jackie in late Spring of last year after her beautiful daughter Isabel was born. Jackie faced breastfeeding challenges like many mothers do and she was so gracious to share her story to normalize those challenges and provide hope for new mothers. Please enjoy and thank you, Jackie! What preparation, if any, did you do for breastfeeding? I did my own resear

​ Ankyloglossia, a tethered lingual frenulum, a tongue-tie. No matter what you call it, know that it can cause some serious breastfeeding issues. A tongue-tie has been known to cause weight gain problems and gas in the infant, and nipple trauma and plugged ducts or mastitis in the mother; and that's just to name a few issues. A baby who is tongue-tied is unable to properly move his tongue and therefore is unable to effectively remove adequate amounts of milk from the breast (