August 1st through August 7th each year is World Breastfeeding Week. World Breastfeeding Week was started as a worldwide initiative to advance breastfeeding as good nutrition, food security, and poverty reduction. In celebration of this holiday, I wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate the women in my profession that not only show up to work to save lives everyday, but also continue to feed their young children. Like many professions, it’s not always easy to pump or breastfeed at work. While my breastfeeding days have been over for several months, cut short by having to go on a liquid diet during radiation therapy, I can’t help but look back fondly on those days. I also can’t help but wonder if I would have been one of those mothers that breastfeeds well into toddler years had my body allowed, but I digress. For fun, I decided to poll some of my fellow Mom DVMs. I asked them to finish the sentence of “You might be a breastfeeding veterinarian if…” Here are the hilarious (and somewhat disturbing) responses. Enjoy!
Thanks to all the ladies who shared their stories with me. You really are a unique breed, able to pull off some serious multitasking. I know some of you have a difficult time pulling this off as busy business owners, and some of you have an even more difficult time if you have bosses that make it more difficult. Power through! Like many of these posts that you sent my way, they become funnier with time, and when more women enter this field with higher expectations about the time and space for breastfeeding, we can look back and have a good laugh on how we did our utmost to make breastfeeding a priority.
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Jessica Stroupe, DVM
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