Your photos are beautiful and your story brought tears to my eyes. After a long struggle with infertility, I had an emergency c-section to deliver my twins 6 weeks early. With so much intervention, like you, I felt like my body had failed. During my pregnancy, I was absolutely determined that I was going to breast feed my babies, as I saw it as the one natural thing that I could do. However, the early arrival and the trauma of a emergency section meant that my body had other ideas. It took nearly 2 weeks for my milk to come in and the twins were being formula fed and topped up with tiny amounts of EBM. I felt like I had failed again. But I was determined not to give up. I ended up breastfeeding with formula top ups for 11 months.
Thank you for sharing your story. It has helped me to think of my experience in a different way. I did successfully bring two babies into this world and I was a nursing mum to them.