For weeks I have been battling myself as whether to stop breastfeeding at 10 months. Ive felt so guilty and shameful that I just can’t make it 2 more months. My son has been using me as a chew toy and drawing blood, I have been in so much pain but kept telling myself I had to make a year. I finally broke down last night and recognized how much of an impact this is having on my mental health and finally decided to be done. I nursed for the last time this morning and he didn’t bite me which makes me feel like he was giving me one last good session to feel better about the last month. I feel so much lighter and happier at my decision to be done and put myself first for the first time in years. Society has pushed such a stigma around breastfeeding and formula feeding and I just hope that we can end the guilt and shame mom culture especially when it pertains to mental health. Being happy for my babies is better than being miserable to feed my son from my body.