When most people find out they have cancer, their main concern is losing their life, however, one new mom had something else on her mind.
Sure, 29-year-old Natasha Fogarty was scared for her life when doctors told her she had breast cancer, but she was even more devastated when she realized she would have to stop breastfeeding her 4-month-old son Milo earlier than she planned.
“The connection that we had – anytime I could, I would just grab him and hold him,” Fogarty said. “We would look at each other and it would be such a connection of love and joy. It was our time, it was no one else’s.”
When Fogarty first noticed a lump on her breast, she brushed it off as a breastfeeding side effect. “I thought it was just my milk coming in,” she said. “Your boobs change, they can get lumpy, so I thought it was nothing… And then I realized after a few months that this particular lump wouldn’t go away even when all the other ones would.”
Doctors confirmed her worst fear, the lump in her right breast was cancerous, and they scheduled to remove it on June 27th. “I was just sad and devastated that I couldn’t breastfeed him anymore,” she says. “I had two weeks of breastfeeding my son after knowing I would have the surgery, so we cherished and relished every second of those moments we had together.”
But on the day before her surgery, she realized she wanted to do something that would help her remember the special bond that breastfeeding gave her and her son. “I was taking a shower and looking down and thinking, ‘I’m never going to have this breast again. This breast that nourished my son,'” Fogarty said of the moment before she reached out on Facebook for a photographer willing to do a last minute shoot.
A friend from high school saw Fogarty’s post, and even offered to help for free. A week later, she decided to post the moving photos on the Breastfeeding Mama Talk Facebook group. “We all have our bad days in breastfeeding,” she said. “And I just wanted to inspire those women so they realize that they are lucky to be able to breastfeed every day.”
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[Featured image: Kari Dallas]
Mom With Breast Cancer Captures Her Last Time Breastfeeding is an article from: LifeDaily