It struck me as I was talking to a friend of mine on Super Bowl Sunday (we had a party), how hard it is for women to breast feed and pump milk sometimes.  What brought the subject up was we were talking about the power outage that lasted here in northeast ohio for a few days, and it came up that she was mad because she had just pumped so many bags of breast milk out for her young, now nine month old infant baby girl, and was determined that all that work and milk wasn’t going to go to waste!

Who could blame her, I can only imagine that pumping breast milk gets monotonous!  But seriously, many women are choosing to breast feed these days because of the increasing awareness over the supposed health benefits that it offers your infant, from better and more robust brain and organ development, to offering your child the bonding experience, to helping their brains develop smarter and faster than if they had been fed on bottle milk from infancy.

Then I came across a funny, but honestly also  kind of scary little ensemble of things you can do to get ready for breast feeding.  I thought that it was a serious article, but after I got past the third recommendation of “drawing blue lines up and down your breast” I realized that it was a joke.  I guess your boobs get a little veiny when you’re breast feeding, eh?

God bless those new moms who can breast feed their kids!

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