Four years, ten months, and nineteen days.
1783 days
This is the amount of time that I breastfed three babies
twins, and then one more
and somehow, impossibly, nursed the twins through an entire pregnancy, and even for 5 days after welcoming my third baby into the world.
When I say my body never quit,
I mean it in the deepest sense.
Closing this chapter feels profoundly bittersweet.
I’m overflowing with gratitude
for a body that carried life,
nourished life,
and showed up day after day when I was exhausted,
touched out,
emotional,
and still giving.
A body that adapted,
endured,
and did things I never imagined it could do.
And still there’s a tenderness in knowing this is the last time.
The last latch.
The last middle-of-the-night feed.
The last season of being someone’s source of comfort in this exact way.
I didn’t know the ending would feel this heavy or this sacred.
I am so deeply proud of my body.
Proud of its strength,
its resilience,
and the quiet sacrifi...
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