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Taylor's pov

" unfortunately, Elise just isn't gaining weight how we would have liked " Dr Friars explained to us gently. I looked down at Elise, my poor little baby, innocently asleep in the hospital crib, her arms still full of IVs, a feeding tube taped to her cheeks and a little purple cast clad on her leg. She'd had the surgery, it had been successful, but her weight hadn't improved and it was starting to become overly worrying.

" what do we do? " Travis piped in, his face etched with concern. These past few weeks had been nothing but constant spirals of concern, all we longed for was Elise to get better, to improve, to be able to come home, but nothing was seeming to help her. Every time we held her in our arms, she felt so light, like one wrong move and her whole body would crumble apart.

" there is something I may suggest but it's completely down to how comfortable you are with it " Dr Friars said, and I nodded, willing her to say more. " well, Elise is still very young and it would be beneficial if her body could be getting intakes of breast milk as well as the supplements from her NG tube. Obviously, I understand the circumstances and that doesn't mean you have to directly breastfeed her yourself Taylor, there's options such as donor breast milk if that's something you want to do "

" and you think it'll help her gain weight? " I questioned. I'd do anything for my little girl to get better.

" well, as with anything, there are no guarantees, but I do think it would be at a great help to her weight, yes "

" and if I wanted to, I could do it myself? I didn't think that was possible due to the lack of hormones in my body " I wasn't aware that this sort of thing was even possible for me, so I'd always just struck it off.

" yes, we can supplement those hormones for you through an oral pill, it's different in terms of conception, so it would be possible for you. And you don't have to exclusively breastfeed her, you can pump and bottle feed if that's how you'd prefer " Dr friars, and I widened my eyes, a little bit stunned. " it's whatever you're comfortable with Taylor " she softly smiled.

" I wanna do it, I'll do anything for her to get better " i said quietly " that's okay, right Trav? " I knew deep down, Travis wouldn't care if it meant we were happy, but he was still her dad and my husband, I wanted his opinion too.

" of course it is, Tay, I want you to do what's best for both of you "

" but, Elise, she has a dairy allergy, how will that work? " I enquired.

" if you are definitely set on directly breastfeeding her yourself, then it would mean you'd have to cut all dairy from your own diet " Dr friars answered informatively.

" I don't care, I'll do anything for her "

" great, I'll get you prescribed some medication and it might take a while to start working, but we will continue as is with Elise unless it really gets catastrophically worse, right now, she's maintaining the same weight of around 17lbs, we just haven't seen it go up "

Dr Friars left the room after that, leaving just us 3 alone with Elise, she was softly snoring in her sleep, her brunette tufts still short and slicked to her head, a pacifier bobbing between her lips. I couldn't help but wonder what she'd be like now had no one of taken her, speaking of which, we still hadn't heard back from the court as to why or who actually took her, we had suspicions but they said they would get back with us with a trial date as soon as they could.