About Lauren Tanabe
Lauren Tanabe
Lauren Tanabe is a NYC transplant and writer living in Detroit with her husband and two young daughters. In another life she was a scientist and has a PhD from Columbia University. She is interested in the intersection between modern-day motherhood, identity, and mental health. Her essays have recently appeared in
The Washington Post. You can find her at
ltanabe.com or on Twitter
@lauren_tanabe.
August 31st, 2020 | by Lauren Tanabe
After months of attempting every contortion that existed in the space between her mouth and my breast, it became clear that if I wanted her to have my milk (and this, I knew I needed), it would have to be pumped, squeezed, and wrung out of me
