Listen, I’m a photographer now, but I remember being young and dumb and uninformed and saying, “That’s ridiculous!” the first time I looked at price lists for a professional photographer. And that was “just” family photography, which doesn’t come with all of the extra challenges of custom labor and delivery photography
Read MoreBreastfeeding is can be one of the most beautiful and rewarding experiences of motherhood, but it can also be one of the most challenging.
When I was pregnant with my first, my midwife encouraged me to attend a local La Leche League meeting, but as an introvert with serious social anxiety (I didn’t know that then, lol), that sounded terrifying, so I didn’t go. Looking back and knowing what I know now about all of my particular breastfeeding experiences, I don’t actually regret not going. However, I do wish I had done more personal education on what normal newborn behavior looks like and what to expect in the early days of breastfeeding.
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