Was it a mistake?

This whole parenting thing...

I wondered if it was a mistake,

When my right nipple was bleeding.

When he ripped off the scab with his suckling.

When a piercing pain pulsed through my whole breast every time I fed him, 8 to 10 times in a day, scab tearing off again and again and again.

In the hospital, when I was sleep deprived and weak but could not sleep more than one hour at a time be…