'When breastfeeding stopped working, it felt like I stopped working'

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I have no statistics to cite about the number of women who experience what is sometimes called "breastfeeding grief," writes Miriam Wasser. But I've come to believe that what happened to me, is, if not necessarily common, then at least quite prevalent.

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