#Chocolate Milk

Dear Diary, I grew up in Trinidad. When I was a young girl, I didn't know any mom who weren't breastfeeding babies. It's what you did. Even my mom breastfed all her kids, including my twin sisters. So when...

Dear Diary, For some African Americans, choosing to breastfeed, especially eclusively and/or long-term, is a choice that can be wrought with discouragement, limited support, ridicule and other...

Dear Diary, I almost didn't breastfeed my baby. I contemplated ordering a bottle of formula from the nurses' station at the hospital. I planned to breastfeed, but my breasts had a mind of their own. My...

Dear Diary, When my mother told me that I was starving my week-old daughter by breastfeeding, I threw the book at her. No, really. I threw a book at her, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding which I consider...

Dear Diary, Breastfeeding really grossed me out. I couldn’t watch it, be around it or even get my mind around the concept. I mean why do that when there are perfectly good formulas at the grocery store....

Dear Diary, In terms of conception, labor and delivery, and breastfeeding, the latter was the only one where my easy button actually worked. One of my children had to be coaxed into the oven; we...