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Gorgeous Breastfeeding Mom Moments | Medela

These are just 23 of the gorgeous breastfeeding moments that we’ve been obsessed with lately. Hope you love them as much as we do.

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It’s no secret – we love breastfeeding.

We love how good it is for babies and their mamas. We love the empowering experience of being able to provide nourishment to a growing baby. And honestly, we love how beautiful it is.

When we see a mom and baby connected so intimately, whether it’s at the breast or with a little help from a breast pump, we can’t help but stop scrolling. These are just 23 of the gorgeous breastfeeding moments that we’ve been obsessed with lately. Hope you love them as much as we do:

1. When you’re brand-new to the breastfeeding journey.

Photo via @_lifewithnoah

2. When you drop everything because baby’s hungry and that’s okay.

Photo via @nakiarachon

3. When you’re proud to be a pumping mama and want to show the world.

Photo via @lucymooremodel

4. When your new mom aesthetic is total #momgoals.

Photo via @oseasoymama

5. When you love your new body because you grew a human with it.

Photo via @kgosigadi_thwii

6. When you take getting in touch with nature seriously.

Photo via @alynicklas

7. When you’re on a boat.

Photo via @deeptinyc

8. When you’re totally exhausted but also totally dedicated.

Photo via @_madebymau_

9. When you’ve got two babies…and also two breasts to feed them with.

Photo via @filippaophelia

10. When your little one knows he's getting the best of the best.

Photo via @pumpingrose

11. When you find total acceptance with your fourth trimester body.

Photo via @sheis.elle

12. When you have to pump, but you also have to make dinner.

Photo via @rachelkoehlerfit

13. When you’re struck with complete joy.

Photo via @mommyofrobyn

14. When you experience that first proud public nursing moment.

Photo via @lexicx_

15. When even a NICU stay can’t stop you from giving your baby breast milk.

Photo via @pump_momma_pump

16. When you make motherhood look seriously good.

Photo via @itsmemissruby

17. When you make learning to latch look like art.

Photo via @tinyhardins

18. When you look down at your baby and can’t believe how far you’ve come.

Photo via @motheredition

19. When you pump and call it “breastfeeding,” because pumping is breastfeeding too.

Photo via @carlyneave

20. When you’ve got to nurse, but you’ve also got to have coffee.

Photo via @ashjustine

21. When you’re completely blissed out and amazed by your little human.

Photo via @camilastorchi

22. When you find out there are hands-free bras that can help you be a multitasking queen.

Photo via @ana_kyriacou

23. When you realize your heart’s capacity to love just grows with the second baby.

Photo via @2breasties

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Photos show moms that bottle feeding is beautiful, too

Washington photographer Nikke Whitman shot a series of images called "Bottle Feeding is Beautiful, Too!" For the series, she photographed Sarah, a mom of seven, and her youngest son, Louis.

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Sarah breastfed many of her children, Whitman said, but experienced pain from clogged ducts. "She's a busy mama, with six other kids running around," Whitman said, and bottle feeding was a positive experience for them.

Nikke Whitman Photography

Brittnae had hoped to breastfeed her son, Mason, but he continued to lose weight after birth. After several attempts to increase her supply, she began to feed Mason bottles of donated breast milk. "My struggle to breastfeed and my journey to find what was best for our family has completely humbled me," Brittnae wrote on Whitman's blog.

Nikke Whitman Photography

Whitman said she wanted Brittnae to have the same kind of beautiful, tender photos that a breastfeeding mother might have, because nourishing her child with a bottle was just as beautiful.

Nikke Whitman Photography

Whitman photographed an adoptive family that included two children who used bottles. For Jill, their mom, it meant the entire family could bond.

Nikke Whitman Photography

Older brother Ethan was able to spend time with his siblings, Isaac and Ellie, during feedings. "It was a team effort," Whitman said of bottle feeding.

Nikke Whitman Photography

"I've heard people say 'There's no bonding in this photo,' but Rachel, she is a spitfire," Whitman said of one baby she photographed self-feeding with a bottle. "Even at that small, she's very independent."

Nikke Whitman Photography

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Photographer Nikke Whitman shot a series called "Bottle Feeding is Beautiful, Too"

"I do nursing pictures; why wouldn't I do bottle pictures?" she asked

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Nikke Whitman is a mother of three and a professional photographer who specializes in images of pregnancy, births and families. If there is a moment worth capturing in those tender, overwhelming early stages of life, she’s done it.

But late last year, after a close friend struggled with breastfeeding, she realized that there was a photo she wasn’t taking.

“I should document bottle feeding, because it’s beautiful, too,” said Whitman, 31. “I do nursing pictures; why wouldn’t I do bottle pictures?”

As breastfeeding had become a subject of celebration and derision, a feat that some moms recorded in gloriously lit, deeply personal images, bottle feeding was in the background. Until Whitman began to watch it closely, feeding a baby with a bottle seemed mostly a matter of convenience or, in some moms’ experiences, a shameful sign of failure.

“This is not okay,” Whitman wrote on her blog about shooting bottle feeding images. “Feeding your newborn should never feel shameful!”

From behind her camera, Whitman noticed the sweet, quiet calm a bottle could give a happy mother and satisfied baby, and the way older siblings eagerly awaited their turn to bond with a new arrival. She saw that dads reveled in a chance to nourish their children and that some babies showed their spark by swatting milk from the hands of their caregivers and proudly holding their bottles on their own.

The images have started to spread online and across social media. She calls the series “Bottle Feeding is Beautiful, Too!”

“Can we agree that as moms, we are on the same team and bonding and health can be obtained many ways?” wrote Whitman, who is based in Graham, Washington. “Our priority is our babies.

“Seeing a baby bond with its mommy, daddy, sibling, family or friend is a blessing. So I retain my opinion that bottle feeding is beautiful, too. ”

Whitman said she still loves to shoot photos of nursing moms. She understands that there are benefits to breastfeeding, and she believes that women should be able to comfortably nurse anywhere they want. But she also wants families who bottle feed to feel confident and celebrated too – especially those feeling disappointment, fear or shame.

“The benefit of being a happy mom feeding your baby a bottle outweighs being depressed and struggling while nursing,” Whitman said. “That bond is going to be stronger while you’re in good spirits.”

Whitman said she understands why moms might not see beauty in the bottle right away. She wasn’t able to breastfeed her children for as long as she would have liked, and she remembers worrying, “I’m not doing what’s best for my baby. This is going to be a financial burden.”

“I would’ve let that (guilt) go a lot sooner if I would have known what I know now,” Whitman said.

Her daughters are 7, 5 and almost 2, and she doesn’t have any photos of herself feeding her children with a bottle. Looking back now, she wishes she did.

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