Beyond monetary privilege, having a body that cooperates in any capacity is a privilege
Photo: Getty Images In the 2014 documentary Breastmilk, a community health worker named Patrece Griffith-Murray says she thinks breastfeeding women who cite studies about the health benefits are lying: “Breastfeeding is one of those things that you have to be ridiculously competitive to do, I think.
“If you hate it so much,” a friend asked mildly, “why are you doing it?” With not a small amount of shrillness, I parroted what the doctor had told me: I was making my son’s pancreas work. It was different, for me. You want to talk about societal pressure to breastfeed? I kept one of my son’s major organs in business, at the expense of my body and mind, for a year.
If breastfeeding was an area where I could achieve — where my expectations matched my reality — then birth was not. Against my plans and desires, I got an epidural. I’m tempted to paint a fuller picture of why that happened, but rather than detail medical history that’s interesting only to me, I’ll tell you that my husband fainted when he caught a glimpse of the needle — he tipped backward just as a contraction bent me in half.
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