You've been climbed on, sucked on, poked, and pulled at all day long. Your partner walks through the door and reaches for a hug—and you want to crawl out of your own skin. If you're experiencing touched out breastfeeding, you're not broken. You're not a bad mom. And there IS a way through this. Let me paint the picture: It's 5 PM. Your toddler has been attached to your body for what feels like seventeen hours straight. They've nursed, cuddled, climbed, grabbed your shirt, an

You've probably heard it a million times... breastmilk is "liquid gold." It's the perfect food for your baby, packed with everything they need to grow and thrive. And then your doctor hands you a little bottle of vitamin D drops and says, "Give this to your baby every day starting now." Wait... what? If breastmilk is so perfect, why does your breastfed baby need an additional source of vitamin D? It can feel confusing, frustrating, and maybe even a little like someone is ques

"...Playing in the yard with her children on a beautiful summer day; the sunlight streamed through the trees and the fluffy white clouds...

I was in my bedroom. I heard my year old son scream and then silence. I tore out of the room as fast as I could, and turned out of the...

My son is a twiddler. Oh how he loves to twiddle. He could roll my nipple between his fingers allllllll day long. It didn't use to...

Do you ever find that out of the blue your child does something that hits you with a wave of worry? The other day I was laying in bed...

Breastfeeding/Nursing Aversion and Agitation is a phenomenon whereby breastfeeding triggers negative emotions like anger or irritation, skin-crawling sensations and particular intrusive thought like feeling trapped or an urge to de-latch (Yate, Z., 2020) My daughter and I got off to a rocky start in the early days of our breastfeeding relationship. She didn't latch for 3 days, she slept for the first 2 weeks (constantly having to wake her for feeds!) and then she  didn't sle