Breastfeeding is a Bitch: But We Lovingly Do It Anyway

by Cassi Clark

We cheer “Breastfeeding! Yay!” on social media, and around our female friends with feminist pride. But at 3 a.m. you may be cudgeling yourself with, “Oh, dear god, what have we done?” Intellectually, we all know it’s better for our babies, and instinctually, many of us want to do it. But our pregnant daydreaming does little to prepare us for the pain, frustration, self-judgment, and fear that we may experience by choosing to breastfeed.

Breastfeeding can be all angels and rainbows. But more often it is an unlatching baby screaming at you, cracked nipples that feel like they’re being held in a vice-grip and licked by a cat, 3 a.m. freak-outs, explosively painful engorged boobs, flu-like mastitis. And then there’s pumping. And that is why, even considering breastfeeding makes you a saint.

We tell ourselves that breastfeeding is natural, and therefore we should all be able to do it. While it is natural, it is not easy. This book is for every woman who found the truth of breastfeeding to be somewhat askew from her pre-baby fantasies, and for every woman who does not want to be taken by surprise by the latch – or lack there of.

This book is not intended for diagnosis, but for entertainment and commiseration.

Includes topics like:
Latching onto Latching
Screaming at the Breast
Nursing Mothers Do it in Groups
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Pumping
Woman vs the Cover
And Then There Were Teeth
The Bottle Battle
Mastitis, Engorgement and Other Pains in the Boob

Genres: Nonfiction

ebook

First published September 1, 2014

About the author

I am an author, a journalist, and a web writer, a Master of Public Administration, a mother, a knitter, a skier, and an adventurer. And I'd like to share it all with you. I am a Colorado Resident and Native, an Oregon Duck, a former Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Ski Instructor and a New York City survivor.

I have been a journalist since 2000, writing about topics from skiing to top Colorado businesses to innovative education programs. And now I am working on an Historical Fiction about a female serial killer in 1912 Denver. Breastfeeding is aBitch., but we lovingly do it anyway, a diatribe on the humorous and painful secrets of Breastfeeding is available now at your favorite online bookseller. Lucky for you (or not) I have no secrets, and sometimes no filter, so stay tuned for updates on the Writerly World of Cassi Clark.