While meeting these beauties, we talked about motherhood, breastfeeding, bodies, and careers.

At one point, she asked whether my boys ever took bottles, and I told her how resistant they were. With my second, I tried pumping more because I wanted a little more freedom, but neither of them made it particularly easy. She shared some of her own struggles with breastfeeding, and I told her something I haven’t talked about very much.

I didn’t love breastfeeding. Honestly, I didn’t love the newborn stage at all.