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Next in the story of my postpartum body is my breasts and a discussion about breastfeeding. Breastfeeding is a full-time job and damn hard work. I talk about my struggles with breastfeeding my second baby, shields, tongue ties and pumping. I also look at the economics of breastfeeding and why it's yet another type of devalued unpaid labour that women aren't compensated for. I do the math about how much time I've spent feeding in the first three months and it's a lot. And finally I go through the list of things I do to make breastfeeding tolerable.

Ever wonder what a woman's stomach looks like after two csections?  Episode 2 talks about my postpartum stomach.  I talk about how my body in the sphere of fatness and all the shame and judgement that comes along with it.  And how having a csection is NOT easy despite what people say.  And I talk about diastasis recti and ask why more women don't know about it.  

I'm a new mum for a second time. I gave birth to my second kid just 6 weeks ago. I reflect on how and when my postpartum body began and reflect on women's bodies after birth.