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and crushing my daughter's spirit.

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Laurel Pantin
Jun 14, 2024
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There are so many things about parenthood, and early parenthood that I felt nobody had prepared me for. The bovine feeling of squirting milk out your nipples. The pure agony of sleep deprivation. What it’s really like to see your child in pain and not be able to do anything, the vulnerability that comes with loving someone so much you worry you’d die without them.

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