At her birthday party, Christine started to cry while telling her friends she wanted to stop breastfeeding but was grateful for their supportive reactions.
Transcript
It was actually my birthday. My son was like two weeks old, and it was my birthday and they brought food and everything and we were sitting, and I remember I kind of started crying and saying like I don’t want to I just don’t want to breastfeed anymore. It’s too hard. I didn’t know I should have known that what the reaction would be, but I was still nervous that they were just like, then stop then stop doing it. Like, just don’t do it. Like it was just the support that I should have known would be there. But I just felt, I don’t know, embarrassed.
Interviewer: Oh, that’s so wonderful that they were so positive, supportive of the decision.
They’re just nothing but supportive. They were fantastic. It was my choice to sort of like I just sort of relinquished into myself. And then after he was a few weeks old, I started coming out and getting better. And they noticed. They said, there she is, she’s back like she’s doing it. I know, I’m here. I’m better now. Like, they were there in the sense that I knew they were there if I needed them, but they also were giving me space that they felt I needed. But I always knew they were there. They were great.
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