Milk Drops
Short reflections from the quiet edge of biology and longing.
Where milk becomes metaphor, signal becomes story,
and the body remembers more than we admit.
Oxytocin: The Love Hormone (and Why Nursing Works)
Oxytocin — the brain’s gentle glue — surges with nursing, touch, and ritual, lowering stress and building trust. This piece explores how nursing leverages biology to calm nervous systems, create mutual safety, and invite slow, repairful intimacy.
Dry vs. Wet Nursing: What Each Gives You
Dry nursing is ritual; wet nursing is a deeper texture. One gives immediate tenderness, the other adds milk’s sensory landscape and hormonal depth. This piece explores what each practice offers, how to choose, and gentle experiments couples can try tonight to find the rhythm that fits them.
The 24-Hour Milk Laboratory
Milk is a secret playlist our bodies write across the day—bright and energizing at dawn, slow and soothing by night. In The 24-Hour Milk Laboratory we explore how these shifts shape intimacy and offer playful rituals to help couples tune nursing into real moments of connection.