It took a gentle flip of a finger underneath her 3-week-old baby's tongue to make Vita Johnson-Young see she was a fit mother.
Only when her son, Roman, shed a pound of body weight had she begun to question herself.
He was not getting the food he needed from her sore bosom, which cracked and bled.
Kind of like her heart.
"That's traumatic," said Johnson-Young, who had successfully nursed five sons before Roman. "That makes me feel like I was an unfit mother."
She sought advice, at last turning to a woman trained as a lactation consultant. The woman watched Johnson-Young nurse and spotted the problem right away.
Roman was not latching properly. He needed help getting milk from her breast.
"His lips appeared to me - looking down - that he was nursing, but he wasn't," Johnson-Young said. "The technique was to put my pinkie in his mouth (and lift his tongue)."
Roman gained weight, and his mother's breast healed - along with her heart.
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