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  • Breastfeeding: When Enough Was Enough

    Grace Decker August 5, 2022 essays

    My determination to breastfeed should have done something to relieve my sense of wrongness about the birth itself—but every time Alden was weighed (which, between the monthly well-child checks common at this stage and the monthly WIC appointments we had, was often) I was crushed by doubt and guilt.

    breastfeeding, birth, c-section, motherhood, parenting, pregnancy, doula, hospital, formula, guilt

    10 Books to Love

    Grace Decker October 7, 2019 mama's list

    10 books to love by Grace's Picks.

    children's books, grace's picks, books, reading, motherhood, parenting

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