Carrie Underwood has problems breastfeeding: My supply is pretty nil
Carrie Underwood gave birth to her son Isaiah Michael Fisher earlier this year, in late February. She’s been pretty quiet since then, or maybe I haven’t been paying attention. I mean, she hasn’t been a complete hermit, she’s been out and about here and there, but it definitely seems like she’s given herself time to enjoy being a first-time mom. Carrie covers this week’s issue of People Magazine, probably because she agreed to an exclusive photoshoot and interview about how motherhood has changed her… and because she’s got a new album coming out in a few weeks. Surprisingly, Carrie admits that she’s full of doubt as a mom. Carrie has always struck me as a hyper-perfectionist, so it must be hard for her to admit that she finds breastfeeding so difficult.
She’s a perfectionist onstage, but as a mom, Carrie Underwood is navigating the self-doubt that every parent feels when it comes to having a new baby.
“You feel guilty about every single thing, every decision you make, everything you do,” the Grammy-winning superstar, 32, tells PEOPLE in a candid new interview at the Nashville-area cabin she shares with her husband of five years, NHL star Mike Fisher, and their 7-month-old son Isaiah Michael.
When it comes to breast-feeding Isaiah, she says she plans to keep it up for “as long as I can take it. It’s hard. My supply is pretty nil. We have to supplement with formula. I’m doing the best that I can, you know?”
The CMA Awards host, whose new album, Storyteller (preorder it here), is out Oct. 23, says she’s more “loosey-goosey” than she ever thought she’d be as a mom — and confesses that motherhood and marriage weren’t always where she saw her life going.
“I never dreamt of my wedding day and the perfect guy,” she says. “Then I met Mike, and I was like, ‘Wow, so now I know what I was missing.’ And the same with my son. I was never like, ‘I want kids so bad.’ And now that I have Isaiah in my life, I’m like, ‘What did I do before?’ ”
Some women just have difficulties breastfeeding and producing milk. It happens and there should be no judgement about it, although I’m sure there are many on the mommy-blogs who are judging and complaining. Also: Carrie and Mike accidentally locked Isaiah in the car a few months back! She claimed that the dog locked the doors (likely story!!) and that they had to break the window to get to the baby. See, to me that’s a funny story about parenthood but I’m sure she got judged for that too.
Photos courtesy of People Magazine, WENN.
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