12/02/2025
🚨New Series! Normalizing the postpartum experiences by sharing my own 🧑🍼
It’s not always 🌈 and 🦄. Society and social media sells us on a fairytale that can be damaging to new mothers and families, bring on unnecessary pressure and shame.
Breastfeeding was my dream! I knew it could be hard but didn’t really think something so natural could be this hard. The unsolicited advice without real evidence or professional help made it all so much more difficult. The 🍒 on top of my postpartum depression and anxiety.
At the end of it, I had to make a decision for my own sanity. A decision that made me feel so much shame like such a failure. A decision that society didn’t really approve of or often saw as the easy way out.
If your in a similar situation, know that you are not alone. Know that there are so many resources. Ask your questions and don’t stop advocating for yourself 💕
If you know someone in this situation, the best thing you can do is help them with professional resources. A postpartum doula can be help in taking so of the external loads off but also knowing of local available resources 🫶
