Great thread, Purple B!!

I'd practically volunteer to be the president of La Leche League, I think it's so important. I only did it for a year and five months and probably would have done it longer, but he weaned himself. It has such great health benefits for both baby and mom. It was definitely a hassle. I had mastitis, and my baby had the mouth of a ferocious piranha. As I adjusted to it and toughened up, it began to feel great. Nursing in public is awkward at best, especially as uptight as some people are, and I'm modest. Pumping is a pain. Leaking is embarrassing. And one of the things no one ever warned me about was the fact that it would add an awkward element to my sex life. Mamas-to-be, if you've never been a Grafenberg-squirting kind of girl when you crest your sexual peak, you'll be a twin-squirting kind of girl when you do during the breastfeeding months/years. Unless you've just nursed yourself dry before hitting the sack--in which case you're unlikely to be aroused enough to want sex--hope you have a husband who regards that as wildly funny and arousing. Looking back, I'm glad I did it for my son but also for how much it lowers my own risk of breast cancer. I have had friends who've really lamented the loss of their breast shape after nursing, but I guess I was either so young or so small-breasted that it didn't have that effect on me.