Breastfeeding can be hard, painful, and exhausting. Real mothers share the best advice they received while they were struggling to breastfeed.

It's World Breastfeeding Week, and that means taking time to celebrate the beauty of breastfeeding–but it also means recognizing that breastfeeding is hard, and it doesn't work for everyone. You probably know by now that there's a prominent stigma against women who doesn't breastfeed their babies, and we think now is the perfect time to talk about it.