Breastfeeding and sanity are not mutually exclusive
If I had a dime for every time I heard someone say that someone should stop breastfeeding to save their sanity, I would be writing this from a villa in the south of France and not in my dining room...
View ArticleGuest post: Anxiety, intuition, and distinguishing between the two
Today’s guest post comes from someone I’m lucky to have met through Pregnancy & Postpartum Support Minnesota, Crystal Clancy. I asked her if she could write about how to listen to one’s intuition...
View ArticleIt might be hard (and amazing and both at once)
Breastfeeding is hard. Is that surprising to hear, coming from a strong advocate of breastfeeding? It’s too bad that it’s not something we say often, because when a mom finds breastfeeding to be...
View ArticleThe pressure to wean
The moment you begin on the journey that is breastfeeding, you know that you will sometime reach the destination called weaning. (Since I’m an American, we’re talking about the weaning-from-the-breast...
View ArticleBreast is not always to blame
There’s an essay on the Postpartum Stress Center website called, “Is Breast Always Best?” This is a powerful, well-written piece—but it’s wrong. Breastfeeding isn’t “best.” It is normal. We need to...
View ArticleMothers, we need you to hear you whine
Last night I sat at a table in a restaurant with several friends. All of us are in our later thirties and forties. Each of us have two to four children, and are probably done bringing forth new humans...
View ArticleGuest post: Breastfeeding + postpartum psychosis, a highly unlikely love story
Several months ago, I read Blair Shackle’s story of postpartum psychosis in the unlikely place of MinnPost’s website. One thing I noticed was that she continued to breastfeed. In fact, breastfeeding...
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