everybody has a body

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new." -rajneesh

I am no longer in the milk supply business.

It has happened around this time with all of my babies.

With Blake, I was prescribed Reglan to try and keep it flowing. But I was a part of that small percentile where it made me feel all street-rat crazy. So I stopped taking it and stopped feeling like the world was imploding all around me. Good choice.

When women stop nursing, they say they "get their bodies back."

But I beg to differ.

As a mom, I never get my body back. I am tugged at, sat on, laid on, chased, spit-up on, the list goes on and on.

But I am also hugged and kissed on, cuddled, tickled by chubby hands, and most importantly--extremely missed when my body is away from home. By both the kids and the husband.

It's a wonderful thing to feel needed by those bodies.