
Mum guilt: where it comes from and how to let go
Mum guilt (or mom guilt) is not a verdict on you. Where it comes from, how it differs from shame, the research on working mums, and how to let go.
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Mum guilt (or mom guilt) is not a verdict on you. Where it comes from, how it differs from shame, the research on working mums, and how to let go.

The overwhelm, the guilt, the pull between baby and career are not just how motherhood is. Why the way Western culture treats new mothers is not normal.

Before we can talk about why breastfeeding is hard, we need to talk about who made it that way, and why. The guilt was never yours to carry.