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I recently weaned my fifth child. Like all of her siblings before her, I breastfed her from birth until two years old, Alhamdulilah. Weaning her was an emotional time for me.

Breastfeeding is a joyous and simultaneously unnerving feature of motherhood. Physically, it established a foundation of nutritional health that can have a positive impact on the child into adulthood.

I’m an avid supporter of breastfeeding for those who choose it but I’ve never enjoyed the often polarized and unsolicited judgments that others offer up on the topic. Too often, breastfeeding gets presented as either love-it or hate-it relationship, a must-have or a mom-fail.