05/08/2026
Every year, World Breastfeeding Week seems to bring with it the same conversations. Somehow, something as ordinary and instinctive as feeding a baby becomes another thing used to divide mothers.
But I don't think that's what most breastfeeding mothers are doing when they share their stories.
When a mother celebrates breastfeeding for six weeks, six months or six years, when she shares a photograph of nursing her baby, or speaks about what breastfeeding means to her, she's rarely saying, "This is what you should have done."
More often, she's writing a love letter to the version of herself who sat awake at 3am through broken sleep. The one with cracked ni***es, leaking breasts, sore shoulders and tears in her eyes, wondering if she could keep going.
She's whispering, "You made it. It was hard, but you did it."
And in sharing those words, another mother in those exhausting early days might stumble across it and think, *Maybe I can do it too.*
So this World Breastfeeding Week, what if we refused to let something so full of love become another reason to compare or compete?
What if, instead, we simply celebrated the mothers walking this path, while holding space for every family doing what is right for them.
A huge thank you to the beautiful women who joined me at the waterfalls to nurse their babies together, share stories, laugh, connect and create memories I hope they'll treasure forever. It was such a privilege to witness and photograph this day of love.
