14 Things Your Baby Is Thinking While Breastfeeding

I know when babies are born, they're still in the process of developing cognitively. I can't help but think, though, that there's more going on upstairs than we give them credit for, in the beginning. For instance, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of things your baby is thinking while breastfeeding that they just can share with you yet.

In fact, I think if babies could speak and write, they'd all be able to start their own blogs about the ridiculous things their moms end up doing around them. Because when they're babies, you just sort of assume they don't really understand what's going on, right? But what if we're wrong? What if they're internally rolling their eyes every time you binge watch The Bachelor because they just can't physically roll their eyes yet? What if we could have one of those magical voice box mechanisms that the dogs in Up had, which translated their thoughts into actual words?

I have to admit, I'd be terrified to find out what my son might have been thinking, all through the thousands of times he breastfed in his first two years. While I'm not a fan of reality TV, I did find myself watching the entire first season of The Witches of East End in the first few weeks of marathon nursing sessions. Don't judge.

So these 14 thoughts are what I imagine babies are really thinking while they breastfeed: