Hey! I wrote a guest post!

I felt famous for even being ASKED to write a guest post, so this was pretty cool. Laura over at Navigating the Mothership just had her beautiful baby boy, and I was all too happy to write a post to fill in the gaps between "breastfeeding, latch, ouch" and "have newborn, am tired" for her in these first few weeks!

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Mommy guilt. It’s a subject that is written about, thought about, and spoken about far too much. I’ve felt it, and every mom feels it to some degree. If she doesn’t, she’s either very zen or maybe not as introspective as many in the blog world. Post after post is written about crippling guilt felt about working outside the home, a child not eating "well enough" (i.e. not everything prepared from scratch and 100% organic), leaving a child with someone else for a few hours, or, HEAVEN FORBID, overnight! There is so much worry out there about not being a good enough mom, as if there is some kind of perfect ideal that we all must strive for.

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