Motherhood

The dreaded mastitis. I remember my first time. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like shit; chills, headache, aches, I couldn’t sleep at all. I assumed I’d somehow caught the flu. I laid awake in misery all night. It only continued the next day. But I hadn’t been around anyone sick, hadn’t been to any crowded places where I could’ve picked it up, I hadn’t even felt any symptoms until the middle of the night. It didn’t make sense. Then I had a lightbulb moment. An