Feeding

You are pumping every three hours, setting alarms through the night, drinking the teas, eating the oats, and the number […]

You mix the formula in the kitchen at 3am, and some quiet part of you still braces, like someone is

You are doing both, breast and bottle, and somehow that feels harder to explain than either one alone. The exclusive

Day four. You are sitting in the same chair you have been sitting in for what feels like your whole

You expected this to be instinctive. Instead, day three finds you crying, again, with a baby who is also crying,

You are standing in the aisle staring at approximately forty different opinions on how to start solids, purees or baby-led

Your aunt handed you her old pump like it was a family heirloom, well-meaning, generous, completely bewildering. You are standing