Tag: breastmilk
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Breastfeeding: When a doctor told me to “just curl my toes in pain”
“Just curl your toes in pain every few days until she gets the hang of it” Yes, the title of this blog post is literally something a doctor, a medical professional, told me. “Just curl your toes in pain every few days until she gets the hang of it,” was said by an ENT when…
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Breastfeeding: What it took to make it work
Breastfeeding is hard. I feel like that sentence could be a complete blog post and it would resonate with so many. Sure breastfeeding may come easy to some, but to many the journey to success is filled with pain, exhaustion, frustration, anger, many lactation appointments and a serious number of Amazon deliveries for needed supplies.…
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Have a Plan, Ignore Plan
I want to start off by saying that, originally, I was not looking forward to breastfeeding. I don’t know what it was but it wasn’t something I thought of as: “Wow, isn’t that magical!” Instead I thought it seemed weird. I don’t know why, I just did. However, despite not connecting with the idea, I…
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The Breastfeeding Privilege
We are saddled with talk about breastfeeding being a mother’s right, and that’s absolutely true. However, where I live, while it’s acknowledged as as right, it honestly feels like more of a privilege. I wanted to make sure that privilege is acknowledged before adding posts about the huge amounts of work that went into my…
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