Rana recounts how she planned to breastfeed her first child for two years but became pregnant again when her daughter turned one. She struggled with guilt over weaning early, especially due to her high-risk pregnancy. She discusses her experience with the NICU, where her baby needed observation but was physically far from the postnatal ward.
Rana
I was breastfeeding her, and I was planning to breastfeed her for two years and I knew I was pregnant again when she just turned one. So this was for me, to me, about taking the decision whether to stop breastfeeding or to continue. And I felt very stressed, because the second pregnancy, when it comes, there’s a lot of guilt towards the first, especially being so young…