Tag: Fitness

In all of the difficulties of early motherhood, there was a common thread: inadequacy.  My body, the same one that did an excellent job of gestating a baby, wasn’t able to birth my baby vaginally. Inadequate body. I wasn’t able to exclusively breastfeed my baby: Inadequate breasts. I didn’t know my baby wasn’t getting enough milk. Inadequate mother. Somewhere around 2 weeks postpartum, I was pumping regularly to try to boost my supply, and I was washing pump parts in …