01/06/2026
To all the breastfeeding mamas...you are AMAZING!
If you breastfed for all of 2025… here’s what your body actually did…
If you nursed your baby this year… even imperfectly, even with combo feeding, even with a pump in the mix your body has been doing WORK.
Like… Olympic-level, hormonal, metabolic, sacrificial mom-strength work.
Here are some wild breastfeeding facts ⤵️
🕰 Hours spent nursing:
On average, breastfeeding moms spend 1,200–1,800 hours nursing in the first year.
(For comparison, a full-time job is about 1,950 hours a year.)
So yes… it’s basically another full-time job.
🔥 Calories burned:
Your body has likely burned around 400–700 extra calories per day just producing milk which adds up to over 150,000–250,000 calories in a year.
Your metabolism has literally been fueling another human.
🧬 Antibodies delivered:
Your milk isn’t “just food.” It contains:
• living immune cells
• antibodies tailored to your baby’s environment
• protective factors shown to reduce respiratory + ear infections
• gut-building probiotics + prebiotics
When your baby gets exposed to something, your body helps create targeted immune support for them. Unreal.
💗 Bonding & regulation:
Breastfeeding helps:
• regulate baby’s heart rate + breathing
• reduce cortisol (stress hormone)
• stabilize temperature
• support emotional regulation + attachment
You weren’t “just feeding.”
You were co-regulating an entire nervous system.
💪 And for mom:
Breastfeeding is associated with:
• lower risk of breast + ovarian cancer
• lower risk of Type 2 diabetes
• reduced postpartum bleeding
• oxytocin release (hello tears + peace + everything in between)
It has shaped your body, brain, hormones, sleep, emotions all year long.
So if you breastfed at all in 2025…
full time, part time, through latch battles, lip ties, clogged ducts, pump sessions in the car, late-night cluster feeds…
You did something incredibly hard, deeply biological, and profoundly meaningful.
You didn’t “just feed a 👶