The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom

by Nancy Reddy

and when twenty minutes would produce an ounce or two in each bottle, I’d fill with rage.

Ashamed that my body wouldn’t work the way I wanted it to; disgusted by little floppy boobs, nipples like stretched taffy in the flange; angry and lonely on the couch by myself, failing at the thing nature had designed me to do.