With Mother’s Day right around the corner, Hilary Duff is here to remind her fans of just *how powerful* women are. The Younger actress, 31, took to Instagram to reveal that she’ll no longer be breast-feeding her newborn daughter, Banks. With that, Hilary went on to detail all of the many challenges and triumphs she faced since welcoming her little girl into the world on October 25, 2018.

“Just a few thoughts that I wanted to share on breast-feeding,” the Disney Channel alum began on Tuesday, May 7. “Last week was my last week nursing Banks (my six-month-old). I am a working mom-of-two. My goal was to get my little girl to six months and then decide if I — and her, of course — wanted to keep going,” she continued.

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THIS ONE’S FOR THE LADIES Just a few thoughts that I wanted to share on Breast-feeding. Last week was my last week nursing Banks (my six month old) I am a working mom of two. My goal was to get my little girl to six months and then decide if I (and her of course) wanted to keep going. Let me tell you. Pumping at work sucks. I had zero down time and am usually pumping in a hair and make up trailer while four hands work to get me ready for the next scene with lots of other people around. Even if I had the luxury to be in my own room, it’s not even considered a “break” because you have to sit upright for the milk to flow into the bottles! Plus you are having your damn nipples tugged at by an aggressive machine that makes an annoying sound, that echoes through your head day and night (I swear that machine and I had many conversations at midnight and 3 am)! Ttttthen having to find someplace to sterilize bottles and keep your milk cold (ok I’m done with that rant lol)! Anyway, I didn’t know this because with Luca I didn’t work until he was about nine months old, so I didn’t pump very often. Your milk supply drastically drops when you stop feeding as often and lose the actual contact and connection with your baby (😞). So I was eating all the feunugreek goats butt blessed thistle fennel cookies/drops/shakes/pills I could get my hands on! It was maddening. (Does fenugreek make anyone else smell like maple syrup and rubber gloves?…not chill) With all of this complaining, I want to say I enjoyed (almost) every moment of feeding my daughter. Felt so lucky to be so close to her and give her that start. I know many women are not able to and for that I am sympathetic and very grateful that I could. For six wonderful months. But I needed a break. I was going to break. With the stress of a dropping milk supply and a baby that was getting bored or not caring about nursing when I was available to. I was sad and frustrated and feeling like a failure all of the time. When really I’m a bad ass rock star. Moms get high on feeling like superwoman…because we are! Doing too much, because we can! KEEP READING in the comments below 👇🏼♥️

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“Let me tell you, pumping at work sucks. I had zero downtime and am usually pumping in a hair and makeup trailer while four hands work to get me ready for the next scene with lots of other people around,” she expressed. “Even if I had the luxury to be in my own room, it’s not even considered a ‘break’ because you have to sit upright for the milk to flow into the bottles! Plus, you are having your damn nipples tugged at by an aggressive machine that makes an annoying sound, that echoes through your head day and night.”

Hilary then described a couple of her firsthand challenges with producing milk. “Your milk supply drastically drops when you stop feeding as often and lose the actual contact and connection with your baby,” she explained. “It was maddening.” Even so, the “Wake Up” songstress wouldn’t trade her experience as a mother for the world.

“With all of this complaining, I want to say I enjoyed (almost) every moment of feeding my daughter,” she gushed. “[I] felt so lucky to be so close to her and give her that start. I know many women are not able to and for that, I am sympathetic and very grateful that I could for six wonderful months.”

Hilary’s final point was to remind her followers — particularly fellow moms — that they should never feel ashamed for needing to champion their own well-being. “I needed a break. I was going to break with the stress of a dropping milk supply and a baby that was getting bored or not caring about nursing when I was available to,” she admitted. “I was sad and frustrated and feeling like a failure all of the time. When really, I’m a badass rock star. Moms get high on feeling like Superwoman … because we are! Doing too much, because we can!”

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves, Hilary! Thank you for sharing your story. You’re an inspiration to moms everywhere.

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