In Chamonix, ultrarunner Stephanie Case navigates the complexities of motherhood with her baby, Pepper, while managing her responsibilities as a human rights lawyer. She gained fame for winning the Snowdonia ultra-trail while breastfeeding, a feat six months postpartum. Case highlights the pressure that stories like hers can impose on new mothers and emphasizes the need for support rather than comparison. She appreciates the French maternal healthcare system and acknowledges the difficulty of balancing training and breastfeeding, advocating for openness about the struggles many mothers face in achieving such goals.
Now there's even more pressure on us to be able to have a baby and work and run races and now breastfeed during races.
I don't want anyone to feel badly about themselves out of a story like this.
I'm quite open about how hard it is and how much support I have, and the messy parts of it.
Luckily, people who are in the health field around Chamonix are used to dealing with athletes so I have lots of tricks to help me.
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