Olivia Munn Talks About Struggles with Breastfeeding/Low Supply

[ellie_andrews]

New Mom Olivia Munn Laments 'Low Supply' of Breast Milk: 'Breastfeeding Is so Hard' https://t.co/vJxGQikxxC
- People (@people) January 20, 2022

** mentions trying tinctures, tea, supplements, multiple lactation consultants but still struggles with low supply

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I can relate hard. Breastfeeding didn't last outside of the hospital for me. I

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[zibbydoo324]

I will never shame a woman for any struggles she faces for being a woman.
I'm sincerely glad that all of my friends are now talking about the hell pregnancy and postpartum is on the body in every way. I'm just talking the simple fact that your body turns on you and you get hemorrhoids after you fucking carried and housed another being for 10 months. This is not common knowledge and it fucking should be when a large fucking portion of the population experience it. If we are able to better understand how difficult it is, maybe society can start to properly value it whether that's better pto, work/life balance, idk...

[sarahvma]

The hemorrhoids. WHY???

Also you're just stinkier afterwards.

[zibbydoo324]

But also, I am in my late 30s (oooh, that hurt to type, haha). I have a lotttttt of friends who have kids. Basically every single friend back home has multiple children. It wasn't until a friend where I am currently had a child in September 21 that I found out about the hemorrhoids!! This is after 25+ pregnancies and births back home. It blows my mind.

[eatmydustbinns]

Wait whaaat? Stinkier how? My inquiring mind is very intrigued.

[colorsblend]

Your armpits get really stinky. It is to help your baby find the breasts. Lovely isn't it lol.

[eatmydustbinns]

Wow I never knew that! Fascinating!

[winter_lace]

every day I learn new and horrifying things the body can do

[paixetdamour_x]

Yes! Like why do I have BO now?? I never even had to wear deodorant before having a baby.. now it doesn’t matter if I just showered that morning, if I don’t put deodorant on I’m stinky by the afternoon

[thinkweism]

Well, the issue is that we still live in an archaic patriarchal society that completely devalues and delegitimizes every aspect of motherhood unless it plays into confirming those societal gender-role/biological standards that uplift the "norm" of our male-dominant, man-centered culture. It is an infestation, a persistent plague, and it fucking sucks because society has to reorient itself by deconstructing the false belief that motherhood and the labor of motherhood are not just "blessings by God," but leave life-long physiological markers upon the body and conditions which are just stuffed back into a make-believe box of things that don't exist

[anna_drenxavier]

Ugh, yep! I've also heard the horror stories from my mom friends. The hemorrhoids. The ripping up that happens down there. Stitches from C-sections swelling up. Incontinence. One mom friend promptly developed kidney stones after the baby came out. It's no joke, that's for sure.

[winx]

Ripping/tearing is the thing I’m most worried about, that’s my big fear.
I’ve researched how moderate perineal massage for the last 6 weeks can contribute to lower grade or minimised tears, plus a doula or midwife who knows to compress your perineum during pushing but OH MY GOD it scares me to a preternatural degree

[coralphish]

My midwife rubbed oil all over my perineum and stretched it the whole time I pushed. Still tore a bit, unfortunately, but it healed up so well. Honestly, it wasn't nearly as bad as I expected it to be. The skin and muscle in that area heals impressively fast, especially if you're mindful about massaging the area postpartum to break up the scar tissue!

[eva_hagberg]

I recently had a conversation with my much younger physical therapist along the lines: -- Of course I had incontinence during pregnancy, I hat a shitload of babies!
--No, not everybody has it.
And she is most probably right, that there are happy exceptions, but come on! How beneficial to anybody was it to correct me?

[my_moloko]

Yeah, I have enough friends who have kids that I have heard all the horror stories. The hemorrhoids, the tearing, even random health issues that are simply the result of having a baby. People don't talk about how much it truly fucks up the baby, they think it's just weight gain but it's so much more than that.

[evilgerbil]

Despite the fact that I'm 40, very few of my friends have kids. Which is a negative because I dont have people to talk to about being pregnant, but good because no one is filling my head with unrealistic ideas. Pregnancy has basically been 8 months of disability and chronic illness. I dont feel a deep connection with my womanhood, or spiritual, or in tune with my body. I deel like my body has fallen apart in service to my baby. I've read all sorts of backwards nonsense from earth momma types who consider a hospital birth to be tainted by the patriarchy, and blame difficult births or pregnancies on not being in touch with your body. Fuck off.

[belle_chouette]

Every time I feel baby fever I remember that a friend of mine had to get her pregnancy hemorrhoids surgically removed and suddenly I’m cured.