Breastfeeding is a Bitch, But We Lovingly Do it Anyway
Written by Cassi Clark
Narrated by Sandra Murphy
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About this audiobook
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
Cassi Clark
Cassi Clark ha sido escritora la mayor parte de su vida. Ella tiene una Maestría en Administración Pública; además es madre, le gusta tejer, esquiar y es una trotamundos. Es nativa de Colorado, aunque le va a los Patos de Oregón, es una sobreviviente de la ciudad de Nueva York y fue instructora de esquí en Jackson Hole Mountain. Ha escrito sobre diferentes temas, los cuales varían desde aventuras al aire libre a los mejores negocios de Colorado; y de programas educativos a alegorías sobre la maternidad. Su escritura proviene de su curiosidad interminable por la naturaleza humana y las experiencias que compartimos. Además de Amamantar es una jodienda, sin embargo lo hacemos con amor, está trabajando en su primera novela histórica de ciencia ficción sobre una psicópata en una lucha de poderes, en Denver en 1912. Cassi Clark vive en Denver con El Mejor Marido y su Pequeño Lechólico y dos de los gatos más chéveres del universo.
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