Recently, friends have been texting me articles with anti-breastfeeding messaging. They know I have thoughts. I have been a childbirth doula and lactation educator since high school. I have exclusively breastfed five children over the last decade while working full-time jobs. I have not written publicly about breastfeeding in years. Part of the reason is that breastfeeding has become one of those subjects that feels almost impossible to discuss honestly. If you say it is good, you risk sounding