Anxiety is quite a common side effect of quitting breastfeeding, I believe, but it’s one of those things that ‘they’ don’t tell you, ‘they’ being an imagined cohort of mothering experts who withhold all the instructions we would need, if we were to not learn things the hard way. The hard way is: learning yourself through experience, like everyone else. …
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