The Reluctant Earth Mother
A nobody's thoughts on mothering
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I’ll be completely honest, I had two main reasons to breastfeed. 1) weight loss (because it’s that simple) 2) money saving (is it though???) I came to both of these conclusions before I’d actually had a baby with the attitude of “isn’t it obvious?”. To be fair, both have worked out, eventually. A friend told…
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Growing up in a house full of pens emblazoned with “Breast Is Best” did give me the impression that breastfeeding was inevitable, even in that naive time of “no chance will I be having children”. My mum, a community midwife, used to come home with huge handfuls of these pens. Different designs every year but…