Breastfeeding SOS

In honor of NICU Awareness month it's important to give yourself permission to grieve all of it 😮‍💨🥺🥹 Whether your baby spent several days or several months the loss of time and the heartache stays with you for years... maybe forever 💕💔 A trauma that's unique...yet shared when you meet other parents who have walked in similar shoes. The beeping monitors, Brady's, oxygen tubes, IV's, PIC lines, feeding tubes, bili lights, medications, CT's, MRI's, blood draws, tests, trials, endless pumping and the fragile little lives under 24 hour care by others 😮‍💨 A debt that you feel can never be repaid to all the nurses and Doctors. You hope they know how grateful each family feels...even through the sometimes frustrating exchanges when even the Doctors aren't sure what they can do or what's "wrong". An incredibly humbling experience 🥺 You made it! We made it! 78 days with my first born and 11 days with my fifth. Thank you to all who kept my babies alive 🙏💗💙🩷

In honor of World Breastfeeding week, let's look at the incredible numbers! Truly a sacrifice and dedication of love

Here's to the mom who just handles it.

The mom who carries such a heavy load day in and day out.

The one who wakes up early and stays up entirely way too late, and somehow still can't find enough hours in the day to feel caught up.

The one who already has a full plate and is forced to make room for even more when life throws curveballs like kid fevers or car troubles or work issues or mental health struggles or disrupted plans.

The one who doesn't know how she can possibly juggle it all, but still she find a way.

Here's to the mom who just handles it.

The one who puts one foot in front of the other again and again to get through the tough days.

The ones who holds her babies tightly and carries them through the trenches.

The one who feels defeated at the end of the day and fails to notice all the amazing, incredible, superhuman things she made happen.

Here's to the the mom whose weary body and mind whisper, "I can't do this." And yet... She does.

Here's to the mom who just handles it. Not because she wants to, but because someone has to. And because she can.

Here's to her.
Here's to YOU.

Shared with permission from Casey Huff

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An unspeakable pain 😞 One day closer to my Gabriel ❤️

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Unspeakable pain 💔