Oh, so good, Mary! It’s so counter to all of the Western cultural messaging new parents hear. It’s like a constant wave of being told your baby is someone you have to change and control instead of accepting and living with their needs.
 The toughest truth or truths I think are the ones that involve normal biological infant behaviors. Trying to get across -no, your baby is not using you as a pacifier, or your baby is not manipulating you to feed in the middle of the night etc. Your baby needs you, plain and simple. It’s a biologically hardwired instinct for your baby to be held, nursed, nurtured.  Yes, it can be hard, but it can also be one of the biggest joys of your life. Or as an old saying goes, “the hardest job you’ll ever love.”
i feel like a huge issue is that we order breast pumps for everyone. because they are free. because the ACA decided - oh we wont actually give families real lactation support, time off, or paid family leave - we will just make sure they all get a free breast pump so they can go back to work after 3 wks and the crushing machine of capitalism can keep rolling. :(
Pumping is breastfeeding, it’s not nursing, we are still meeting parents where they are and fed is best did a damn good job at making parents think that EBF would harm or even kill their baby :( so we’re undoing years of manipulation and misinformation from an organization with an IBCLC on staff!
Oh, so good, Mary! It’s so counter to all of the Western cultural messaging new parents hear. It’s like a constant wave of being told your baby is someone you have to change and control instead of accepting and living with their needs.
 The toughest truth or truths I think are the ones that involve normal biological infant behaviors. Trying to get across -no, your baby is not using you as a pacifier, or your baby is not manipulating you to feed in the middle of the night etc. Your baby needs you, plain and simple. It’s a biologically hardwired instinct for your baby to be held, nursed, nurtured.  Yes, it can be hard, but it can also be one of the biggest joys of your life. Or as an old saying goes, “the hardest job you’ll ever love.”
i feel like a huge issue is that we order breast pumps for everyone. because they are free. because the ACA decided - oh we wont actually give families real lactation support, time off, or paid family leave - we will just make sure they all get a free breast pump so they can go back to work after 3 wks and the crushing machine of capitalism can keep rolling. :(
Pumping is breastfeeding, it’s not nursing, we are still meeting parents where they are and fed is best did a damn good job at making parents think that EBF would harm or even kill their baby :( so we’re undoing years of manipulation and misinformation from an organization with an IBCLC on staff!
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