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Before we begin, I want you to raise your right hand and repeat after me:

1 I will do the best I can.

2 I will not feel any guilt if this doesn’t work out.

3 I am going to tell my friends and family to support me in my choice to breastfeed.

4 I am going to work hard to provide the best start for my baby.

5 I am awesome, super smart, and look like a supermodel. :)

The most important influences on your decision to breastfeed are your significant other, your family, and your friends. If they have never breastfed, they will not understand. You need to trust your instincts and look at the research. It’s that simple.

I recently read an article with Katie Couric that said, “Life is a bunch of reboots.” That is very true in day-to-day life, but having a baby is like a complete system overhaul. It’s like switching from a Mac computer to a DOS system. Everything you think you know goes right out the window. You can’t imagine how much you will do on practically no sleep, how the color and frequency of poop will consume your day, and how you can love this little person 10,000 times more than anyone or anything on the planet.

We all know breastfeeding is best, and we all want to give our babies the best possible start, BUT...if you have cracked, sore, bleeding nipples, a breast infection, or a screaming baby, it’s going to be hard to make it work. What you need is SERIOUS determination. We are talking “girl is going after your boyfriend” type of determination. It won't be easy, but it will be worth it! You will be doing what your body was designed to do and provide the perfect food for your baby. What could be better than that?

You will need to learn how to handle unwanted advice.

Make it a game with your husband, partner, or best friend. Every time someone tells you to do something that goes against what the research shows, you can have a phrase ready to say like, “WOW, I had no idea! I’m definitely going to do that right away.” Get ready to say that phrase a lot!

For example, your mother-in-law tells you to stop eating broccoli because it's making the baby gassy, or that babies should be sleeping through the night at three weeks, or you have to drink milk in order to make milk (these are all breastfeeding myths, by the way). Just smile and say, “WOW, I had no idea!”