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It’s World Breastfeeding Week: Here’s why that makes me sad

If I’m being honest, I struggle with World Breastfeeding Week, both now as a newly minted IBCLC, and seven years ago when I first became a breastfeeding mom — long before I knew I would completely change careers to become a lactation consultant.

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Rachel Skybetter Rachel Skybetter

I only have 2 weeks left before my maternity leave ends

In two short weeks, we’ll be cutting the cord. Again. The first time was a flurry of nurses and gunk and numbness as they whisked you to the warmer to examine a limp left arm. You and I had been intertwined since you were mere cells rapidly multiplying in my womb and then suddenly it was over.

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