HOW MOMS REALLY FEEL
The decision to nurse or not nurse is, for many women,
still feel the pressure. We asked three writers to share
I LOVED IT
By Sara Austin
I SPENT MY FIRS T NIGHT AS A MOTHER
with a lovely stranger named Caroline,
who’d just given birth to a boy with a
lush head of hair and skin the color of hot
cocoa. My daughter, Summer, seemed
made of strawberries, all pink translucence
and red-brown fuzz. Through the
hospital-room curtain, we listened to
each other coo, sing, and plead with our
newborns to sleep—and fumble through
our first attempts at nursing. It wasn’t as
instinctual and e ortless as advertised.
Caroline told Continued on page 106
