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On a recent Tuesday at 3 a.m., I was cradling my 5-month-old daughter’s head against my left breast while doomscrolling the depths of motherhood TikTok when I came across an aptly served post from user @Mama_Pey. The video begins with a close-up of the shelves inside Pey’s freezer, a towering, upright, industrial-appearing appliance that is nearly overflowing with staggered bricks of glistening, butter-yellow frozen breast milk.

“This is why I’m weaning,” the self-described “Girl Mama of 2” announces to the 1.7 million users who have viewed the post so far. “I need to use all of this.”

I scrolled away. Immediately, I encountered Bailey Kisiel, a nursing student t

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