Loving your body (again) after breastfeeding 💟

I curated this playlist shortly before dropping my daughter off at kindergarten. If you, too, are sending a child into the world this time of year, this one is for your heart. 🫶 — Kate, Community Manager

“My breasts are no longer ‘sexy’ to me. They are a part of my body that nourished my children — a part of my body that, in some ways, doesn’t entirely feel like mine anymore. As I arrive at the end of my breastfeeding journey, I’m ready to reclaim the love I once had for this sacred part of my body. I want to love them in a new way and honor them in ways I maybe never have before.”

While we love a cozy bralette for lounging around the house, we also need bras that offer true support, especially as our bodies change and for those of us with larger cup and bust sizes. We love that these function like real bras but use safe, nontoxic fabrics.

This salad is the perfect meal for one, it combines crispy golden rice, fresh cucumber, and savory salmon for a simple dish that’s addictively craveable.

💨 Easy peasy: These are our editors’ favorite ​baby formulas for little ones with gassy or sensitive tummies​.

🍼 Expanding access: We love how this brand is making it easier for parents to ​access donor breast milk​ and even freeze-dry their own.

❤️‍🔥 No gatekeeping: ​We love these confidence tips​ that center the only opinion we should care about when it comes to our bodies — our own.

💼 For job seekers: The University of Rochester Division of Midwifery is seeking to add a ​faculty midwife​ to their growing university-based practice.

📝 A good question: Can you thank your body for carrying you and sustaining you thus far?

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What one reader wishes they’d known ahead of adulthood:

“I had known that adulthood would be hard, like that was not something that I did not think would happen, but I was never taught even in school, really good ways to budget and invest. As an adult, I feel like now I am playing catch-up learning how to do this for myself through trial and error. I hope to teach my children about this before they enter adulthood so they don’t have to learn it themselves later on.”

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