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“But as my already low supply dwindled and I started to count the seconds until I returned to work and you started daycare, I watched the minutes tick by that it took to get 10 ml. And I decided that that sip, which took 20 minutes to pull from my body, was not worth 20 minutes of playing with you. 20 minutes of giggling with you. 20 minutes of singing “Yellow Submarine” over and over again to calm you to sleep.”
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“If you hired a midwife and a doula, that’s great. Good choice. Just don’t fall into the trap of thinking that’s all you need to love your birth. A good midwife or doula can go a long way in helping you to feel good about birth and yourself, but you do the work. No one else can birth this baby for you, just like no one else can do your squats.”
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This speaks to me! Oh, oh how this speaks to me!
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This speaks to me! Oh, oh how this speaks to me!
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“And while I always knew that someday I wanted to be a mom, pregnancy has been surprising (and I’ve been a health reporter for the better part of a decade). In fact, I’ve never felt as in the dark as I have wondering why I got heartburn after drinking water, if I’d ever be able to go on a run again, or how on Earth moms-to-be did this pregnancy thing day after day, year after year.

“It’s been a learning curve. So what are my biggest takeaways? Here, what I wish someone had told me* last October right before I found out I was pregnant.”
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“As a pediatrician, I had been trained to look for signs of postpartum depression in moms – not dads. Like most people (including most of my colleagues), I didn’t realize that men could experience postpartum depression, too.

“Until I experienced it myself.”
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“Dr. Azad’s work suggests that direct contact between the mother’s breast and the baby’s mouth is important: When a baby nurses, some denizens of its oral microbiome may traverse back into the mother’s breast.

“In other words, the benefits of breast-feeding may derive from myriad factors, including the many microbiomes in the mother’s body — in the breast milk and on the skin of the breast — and in the baby’s mouth and gut.

“’I don’t want the message to be that expressed human milk is bad,’ Dr. Bremer said. ‘It’s that there are other factors involved. When you disrupt that experience of baby sucking on the mom’s breast, what do you lose? Or what’s gained by that process? The science is more ripe now to start delving into those questions.’”
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