{"id":8860,"date":"2020-12-10T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=8860"},"modified":"2025-02-08T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:08:13","slug":"last-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2020\/12\/10\/last-bottle\/","title":{"rendered":"last bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is it, y\u2019all. Baby\u2019s last bottle, because I don\u2019t have a baby anymore, I have a toddler. More importantly, it\u2019s his last draft of mama\u2019s milk. He doesn\u2019t know it, but I sure do. I built my son with my body in my body for eight months then nourished him strong a full year. He\u2019s gained 20 pounds and 13 inches since birth. Yeah yeah, some of that is solids, but still. He self-weaned before nine months, and I\u2019ve been pumping five times a day ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every. Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up at 4 AM, agonizing over every ounce, surreptitiously turning off my camera during video chat meetings or talking to customers on the phone while the pump wheezes in the background.<br><br>DONE. I froze enough milk to ease off in November and stop completely by Thanksgiving, presently still in the throes of haywire hormones that ironically, cruelly, mimic first trimester morning sickness. But I\u2019m close \u2014 so close! \u2014 to my body being mine.<br><br>And THIS KID. I gotta stop gushing, I\u2019m prolly hella annoying, but I\u2019m so proud of us both. For this final drink, Arthur and I sang him his nursing song that I wrote while in the hospital and that we\u2019d forgotten about for months. I wept and laughed and hugged L tight. Impervious to the fuss, he slammed the milk per yoozsh then gave a groaning grunt of satisfaction.<br><br>We ended the chapter and started the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lastbottle-900x1200.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lastbottle-900x1200.jpg 900w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lastbottle-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lastbottle-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/lastbottle.jpg 1458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I built my son with my body<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8860\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}