ILLUSTRATION BY LOUISA BERTMAN
Breastfeeding is freaky. Not the sucking bit. You’re reading The Stranger, so odds are you’ve had a titty sucked at some point in your life. No, it’s because when my baby attached to my breast, there was an incredible chemical cascade that ran through my entire body like lightning. Imagine the most electric thing a partner has ever done to you, then multiply it by 10. I could feel my brain rewiring, creating pathways that would permanently connect me to my child. (And yeah, I kind of got off on it. Don’t judge.)
I want to tell you the story of the first time I breastfed my daughter. But in order to tell you that story, I’ll have to step back a bit…