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Natalie Burns's avatar

Just read this with my 1 year old attached to my nipple in the midst of my desperation to stop feeding (she has teeth… and uses them), and her determination not to. I thought that the end of the BF journey was going to be a gentle, cozy finale - with me doing one cuddly feed at night and then quietly, no more. I didn’t realise I would be racing for it to end while fighting a wiggling 1 year old who leaves teeth marks on her prey. After making it to a year I should be feeling success, instead I’m feeling defeated. Breastfeeding is hard. More power to you.

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Koalaberg's avatar

I take my hat off to you! Preserving through that is levels of patience and fortitude I don’t know if I’d have. I have a 9 month old son and breastfeeding has been complicated. In the end I chose to combi feed as without it I would have given up. Being a mother is so encompassing you need to keep a portion of yourself ring fenced to remember who you are.

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