(3/6) B: “So we found a new doctor, who was really willing to talk about what it would take to make her breastfeeding happen. They added progesterone and a prescription to help induce lactation, the way they would for a woman adopting who wanted to breastfeed. But she had a horrible, horrible adverse reaction to it. She got dizzy and sick and confused and had blurred vision.”

A: “Oh yeah, and I am a bus driver, so when it started happening, I was noticing all of these awful reactions to the medication while working. It was bad.”

B: “This was a couple of weeks before our due date, and we wanted to start getting the milk flowing. It just made everything so much harder, and she got really discouraged, which was understandable. So when we had our baby, she still wasn’t really able to produce more than just a few drops of colostrum. She went back on progesterone for about three more months to further develop her breast tissue and used a different prescription, and she’s done really well with it.”

A: “After about a week of pumping I was getting mature milk. He didn’t latch easily and in the beginning I was only able to pump a few drops. I could just fill the bottom of the little colostrum containers. But after continuing to pump, continuing to focus on it, I’d say I got up to about 4 or 5 ounces a day.”

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Ashlan Taylor - Birth and First48 Photographer, Portland