A friend of Julie recognized the red flags and helped to get the support she needed.
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At this point my breastfeeding had stopped, so that was unfortunate. But it’s interesting because I’ve since been actually looking into it and I know that there’s a concept called relactation. Like, I could have naturally started breastfeeding my son again had, again, I think we had the supports in place. But I think everything sort of shifted in terms of figuring out, OK, how can we support my mental health and physical health in addition to keeping my son healthy? And healthy meant, I think, at that point doing formula. But yeah. My friend was the one to sort of, I think, raise alarm bells to – even though I knew alarm bells were going off but she really acknowledged that there were alarm bells and raised it more to my husband … who I think knew that we were overwhelmed but had no idea what to do. And so she really was the one to help us sort of figure out how do we push harder for me to have services?
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