Middle-Pause Pump Priming Prompt

Speaking of Loving our Unique Features, How about Your Breasts?

What was it like to breastfeed your babies? Are your breasts healthy now?

Marilyn Flower
Middle-Pause
Published in
6 min readApr 10, 2023

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Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com on Unsplash

Like it or not, we have a relationship with every part of our bodies.

If you’re anything like me, it’s complicated.

And there’s a history to it. Especially when it comes to our breasts.

Before delving in, let me thank Coyote Susan for inspiring this topic with her hair and training bra story.

Everybody’s body is different.

Some of us are early bloomers, which can be embarrassing. And lead to inappropriate responses from men and boys. This should not happen, but it does. Curious if it’s getting better or worse since it happened to me at age twelve.

Some of us are late bloomers, which can be just as embarrassing. We’re still in undershirts or training bras in our teens. Sooner or later, physical education…

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Marilyn Flower
Middle-Pause

Writer, sacred fool, improviser, avid reader, novel forthcoming, soul collage facilitator, prayer warrior and did I say writer? https://linktr.ee/marilynflower