As I tell new moms all the time, the first six weeks postpartum are always the hardest. I wrote about the six-week milestone at WEtv this week:

For one thing, the sixth week is when I can usually expect my milk supply to start getting in synch with my baby’s appetite a little better. Up until then, I never know what to expect: one breast might be twice the size of the other. Or one day the baby might seem to nurse frantically all day and never get enough milk and the next day there’s so much milk that she chokes and gags when she nurses, milk streaming everywhere as though she’d put her mouth around the garden hose and then turned it on full force.

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