Welcome to this week’sWomanly Wednesday! When I found Amberly’s blog a few months back, I spent WAY too much time scrolling through all her old posts about marriage. I love her wise heart to see wives fight for real, honest, and loving communication and connection in their marriages and have learned a lot from her posts. Even though I’m not in this stage she describes here yet, I love her honest words about what it’s looked like to wrestle with her identity as a mama when it comes to breastfeeding. Thanks for sharing your story, Amberly!
A couple of years ago, I attended a class on breastfeeding as an assignment for the Prenatal and Infant Nutrition class that I was taking. I wasn’t in the mindset of having kids of my own yet, but it was one of the most educational couple hours of my life and afterward, I made the solid decision that I would be nursing all of my kids in the future. The lactation consultant who taught that night filled us with valuable information about the benefits of breastfeeding, techniques and helpful hints for making it a smooth experience. I took a lot of notes and just knew that I would be so good at this when I had my own child. Other moms made breastfeeding look so easy, so I was bound to be a natural at it. Never did I think that breastfeeding and milk production would make me feel insecure and inferior and bring up feelings of jealousy toward other women.