A new mother named Annie May has brought some much-needed awareness to Instagram with a raw, heartfelt post about her own struggles to produce milk for her newborn. These days, mothers feel an enormous amount of pressure to feed their children entirely from the breast. Many even feel shamed for using any formula at all. May's post reveals that such attitudes, even if they are well-meaning, do not take into account what such a mother may be dealing with herself. Reading it, it's impossible not to empathize.

May's caption reads:

The feeling you get when your newborn cries for milk is hard to describe. The heartbreak you feel when your newborn cries and you don't have milk is even harder to describe. Nevermind that the nipples are cracked and sore, baby's cries sound like ringing alarms INside the brain and I'm desperate to do anything to alleviate his discomforts and meet his needs. When the night hits, I have to make a choice to supplement with formula or let him sleep hungry. Or more like wake up every hour, stress and fuss to calm his hungry cries, fight with my loving partner, and feel like a failure--shame. And still, which ever choice we make, nobody wins--shame. What the hell is in formula? Why does this stuff smell like rubber? Will my milk ever come in? Am I doing something wrong? Nobody ever told me. Nobody ever told me about the challenges of breastfeeding. This must be an unspoken reality for SO many new moms. I speak to myself and whoever may be struggling to feed their newborn. Feel no guilt or shame as you continue into your journey of motherhood. Some things we just cannot control, and so, we will make the best choices that we know how and we will have done it all with love in our hearts SO full that it cries out from our eyes. I love you. Bo.

Ps. God is good and community is even better. Because milkmaids are a thing and I have sisters. Sisters with babies who love me and love my baby!! Community community community community. Sisterhood sisterhood sisterhood sisterhood. Mothers before me before her before her before her.

Pps. Milk increases everyday and we have to supplement less and less each night

Best of luck to Annie May and her beautiful baby.

Some people upset at the election results have taken to protesting, while others have crawled into their holes to distract themselves. But for sure, no matter who you are or what you believe, nobody had a more extreme reaction to Trump winning the presidency than this girl.

This girl is clearly having a terrifying panic attack. And while some of us might have been thinking or feeling these things, she was the only one to scream them out loud and then share them with the internet.

This has to be a joke I cannot believe this is happening. I'm literally about to f—ing kill myself and I'm not kidding. You better f—ing fix this shit right now. I'm literally gonna die I need an ambulance. I can't...

Girl, wherever you are, I hope you were able to catch your breath. I hope you didn't kill yourself. It's going to be ok.

This is Atchoum.

Atchoum is a very fuzzy animal, but people generally have a hard time distinguishing what kind of fuzzy animal.

Some seem to think that he is a dog.

While others argue that he is a cat.

Or perhaps he is an owl?

Or maybe he is just a pile of swept up hair with eyeballs.

In fact, Atchoum is a Persian cat with hypertrichosis, which explains his excessive hair growth, not that some extra fur is a bad thing.

If anything, it just makes him even cuter.

Especially because you're not the one responsible for picking up his hairballs.

Sometimes dreams do come true. This (we must say, very attractive) young man is living his truth by traveling the world and sampling as many different pizza slices as possible.

His name is Phil Duncan. He's a native of Liverpool, England currently living in Seattle.

"At the same time Instagram was getting big, I was traveling a lot more often on longer trips. So automatically I would upload general travel pics," Duncan told Mashable. "I noticed that my friends were liking my pizza photos a lot more than just general pics as they knew my love for pizza. So I just continued to showcase all the pizza I was eating in all the countries I have been to."

Duncan has eaten pizza in 30 different countries and on five different continents. His favorite? "The best I have had, has to have been in New York," he said. No surprise there.

See kids? Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't be anything you want to be.

Let's hope we don't find out in a few days that Phil's Instagram has been a secret viral marketing ploy for Pizza Hut or something all this time.

George R.R. Martin would like to say "I told you so" about Trump.

No, not just through Joffrey being a reckless, cocky baby king, but of the context of Westeros.

On his blog "Not A Blog" (a clever, Tyrion-y title, eh?), Martin wrote a post this morning titled "President P***ygrabber" (another clever, Tyrion-y title).

"There are really no words for how I feel this morning," he wrote, "America has spoken. I really thought we were better than this. Guess not."

Martin described Trump like one of his own characters: "a dangerously unstable player on the world stage."

The short post has a classic Thrones ending, in that it's devastating:

Over the next four years, our problems are going to get much, much worse.

Winter is coming. I told you so.

Read the whole post over at GRRM's LiveJournal (for real).

Last night, singer and badass Katy Perry reacted to the election results like so many women who are terrified about what a Hillary Clinton loss could mean, and tweeted that she was crying her eyes out.

Cue AIDS-meds-gouging, Kurt Cobain-legacy-witholding, Martin "Pharma-Clown" Shkreli, offering up his greasy shoulder for Perry's falsies to fall on.

Ewwwww. Time and place, Shkreli. The time for you to hit on Katy Perry is never. And the place for you to hit on Katy Perry is nowhere. She doesn't need you. Sit your butt down and go back to begging your exes to let you give them oral for $10K.

Fortunately, singer British singer Lily Allen reached across the Atlantic to smack him in his smirking cheeks

Get him.

What's the solution to this madness we seem to have gotten ourselves into, America? According to a bunch of folks on Twitter, the answer is Kanye West. President Kanye West. The rapper famously announced at last year 's VMA's that he would run for president in 2020. This might've seemed crazy and unlikely, up until last night. But now we have seen that literally anyone can be President of the USA if they have enough money and power. And Ye has no shortage of either of those things.

Will Kanye West stay true to his promise to run? Time will tell. But here are some of the optimistic people who believe a future President West could be the one to save us all:

Are you ready? I'm ready. Almost anything would be better than our current situation. In Ye we trust.

Many of us are struggling to deal with the idea of a Trump presidency, including Macklemore. The 33-year-old rapper shared a photo of his 17-month-old daughter Ava Sloane Simone on Instagram this morning along with a long, passionate post about what Trump's victory means to him as the father of a daughter.

“I am disappointed, shocked and shaken at my core by what has transpired tonight,” he wrote. RELATABLE. But rather than despairing, Macklemore promised to turn these events into an opportunity for learning, growth and change. He really is a dad.

“Donald Trump is not raising my daughter. I am,” he wrote. “I get to encourage and nurture her to be who she wants to be. Teach her that her voice and actions can change the world. Teach her that she can do anything that a man can do. And one day, even become president of the United States of America. I have work to do. It starts now."

Not crying yet? Maybe this pic from a year ago will help:

Sometimes, dads have a way of making you feel like everything will be okay.

"Well, that was a real grab in the pussy."

So began Seth Meyers' desk monologue on his first show back after the election of Donald Trump. But from there, Meyers' reflections weren't pure disappointment and anguish.

Of course he spoke to all of that, too. He reflected on the bitter reality for his eight-month-old son, the fear of his Italian greyhound being deported, and the bizarre historic achievement of America's next president:

"For the first time in our history, our president would be a steak salesman."

But after nearly breaking down at the thought of his mom's fruitless support for Hillary Clinton, Meyers eventually turned to empathy to make sense of it all.

"I felt a lot of emotions last night and into today," said Meyers.

"Some sadness, some anger, some fear. But I'm also aware that those are the same emotions a lot of Trump supporters felt, emotions that led them to make their choice, and it would be wrong for me to think my emotions are somehow more authentic than their emotions."

"Hope is always the best possible path to take," said Meyers, and after all, he pointed out, the only thing we know for sure about Donald Trump's policies right now is that he's anti-Rosie O'Donnell.

As the sobering reality of four years of President Trump sets in, many are wondering where we go from here. On Wednesday, late night's only female talk show host Samantha Bee tried to dissect exactly how a sexist bigot who thinks "bigly" is a word could have been elected leader of the free world, and what that means for Americans.

As many Americans are already feeling the effects of a country led by an actual Twitter troll, Bee tried to focus on the positive and talk about the amazing women of color who are making history by being elected to office this year.

Maybe we haven't shattered the glass ceiling yet, but we definitely are putting some cracks in it.

In the wake of Donald Trump's win in the election, some parents are finding themselves struggling with what to say to reassure their children about their futures. Then there's screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (known for The Social Network and TV show The West Wing), who probably hasn't had any problem expressing himself about anything since his first words (a full script for a pilot) at the age of 6 months.

On Wednesday, Vanity Fair ran an open letter on their website that Sorkin wrote to his 15-year-old daughter Roxy and wife Julia Sorkin.

In the letter, addressed to "Sorkin Girls," he's pretty open about how terrible it is that the country elected a man supported by hate groups, and how a huge recession has been predicted, but reminds them that they're not alone and they can "fucking fight." He continues,

America didn’t stop being America last night and we didn’t stop being Americans and here’s the thing about Americans: Our darkest days have always—always—been followed by our finest hours.

Roxy, I know my predictions have let you down in the past, but personally, I don’t think this guy can make it a year without committing an impeachable crime. If he does manage to be a douche nozzle without breaking the law for four years, we’ll make it through those four years. And three years from now we’ll fight like hell for our candidate and we’ll win and they’ll lose and this time they’ll lose for good. Honey, it’ll be your first vote.

You can read the full letter at Vanity Fair. Parents, feel free to just print it out and hand it to your kids.

Actor and world-class scowler Robert DeNiro said in a video released in October that he'd like to "punch [Donald Trump] in the face." But on Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night, DeNiro sadly acknowledged that now that Trump will be the president, he won't be able to punch him anywhere. Sad!

During the clip, in which Kimmel mentions how scared he is of DeNiro (can't blame him), he asks the 73-year-old actor, "Are you still going to punch Donald Trump in the face? Because you can now get arrested for that, I think." DeNiro admits it's no longer a possibility, and adds "We have to all respect that position," looking and sounding so dejected that the audience actually goes "Aww" for him.

The video of DeNiro talking about how much he hates Trump was released in October by its producers, after part of it had been used in an ad urging Americans to vote. It contains DeNiro saying all sorts of choice negative things about Trump, including that he's a dog, a pig and a con who doesn't know what he's talking about." He also added, "Colin Powell said it best: He's a national disaster, an embarrassment to this country."

After taking a hiatus from his movie star lifestyle, Brad Pitt was back on the red carpet last night, making his first public appearance since his highly-publicized separation from Angelina Jolie. On Wednesday night, the actor attended a fan event for his new movie Allied, answering questions, signing autographs, and generally trying to look like a guy who isn't embroiled in an extreme bitter, public custody battle.

Earlier on Wednesday, Pitt was officially cleared of child abuse charges by the Los Angeles Country Department of Children and Family Services. The investigation had been started after Jolie accused him of striking their son Maddox in an alcohol-related incident on a private jet in September. After extensive interviews with the family and witnesses, DCFS determined that the incident did not constitute child abuse, and rejected Jolie's claim that Pitt had a "pattern of misconduct."

At Wednesday's event, Pitt did not address his divorce specifically (no surprise there), but seemed happy to be with his fans again. The 52-year-old said, "It's really sweet, everyone has been really kind out here. It's really nice to have all the support."

With the DCFS decision, Pitt is sure to have more leverage in his custody battle with Jolie. But this thing is far from over.

After over three years in foster care, one little girl was finallyadopted—and on Election Day, no less. No matter who you are, what you think, or where you're from, you can't help but feel a little calmer knowing something happy is happening in this little girl's life.

Posted on Reddit, the comments were full of fellow veterans of the foster care system. Their own nostalgia, over that wonderful feeling of finding a permanent home, only makes the anonymous little girl's smile even sweeter.

"I spent ages 2-7 in the foster care system before being adopted at age 8," wrote one user. "I still remember that blissful feeling of finally having someone to call 'mom.'"

The post became something of a forum for sharing foster care stories, and many of them are, sadly, really disturbing. "Being in foster care was without a doubt the worst experience of my life," wrote one redditor, echoing many of the other commenters.

But the photo is proof that sometimes good things do happen in the foster care system, or perhaps in spite of it. Either way, in her toughest times, this little girl will be able to look back at this photo and smile.

An Irish couple seeking a legal abortion is live-tweeting their journey from Ireland to the U.K. They are hoping that by sharing their experience they can raise awareness about repealing the restrictive laws in their country that prohibit abortions.

In Ireland, abortions are illegal unless the pregnancy poses a threat to the life of the mother. Women who are carrying a fetus with "fatal foetal abnormalities" may not get an abortion in the Republic of Ireland, even if doctors confirm that the baby will not survive outside the womb.

At first, the couple was elated to find out they were expecting, but devastated when the fetus was diagnosed with Edwards Syndrome (also known as Trisomy 18 Syndrome), which means the child would likely only survive a few hours or minutes after being born. The couple already has a son who has disabilities, and he must be monitored constantly because his condition could allow him to slip into coma and experience brain damage.

The couple began their journey on December 10th, traveling internationally to Liverpool, England to abort the fetus that is about 12 weeks along.

At time of publication, the couple had arrived at the clinic and the woman was about to be seen.

In 2014, statistic showed that over 4,000 Irish women traveled to England to receive legal, safe abortions. However, for many Irish women international travel is not a viable option financially. If caught having illegal abortion or buy abortion pills online, women can expect up to 14 years in jail or be issued with a €4000 (about $4300) fine.

People magazine has hopped aboard the Trump train, just weeks after saying they'd stand by their writer who accused him of sexual assault.

Some see his celebratory cover is scary sign of trying to normalize his racism and sexual violations towards women. Plus, it also features a really dumb Apprentice joke.

Former People reporter Natasha Stoynoff published a harrowing account about allegedly being assaulted by Trump on the job while writing a profile for the magazine in 2005.

People are calling out People for this shameful 180, including famous people.

Actor and writer Zoe Kazan is calling on both celebrity subjects and normal readers to boycott the magazine.

Puff pieces in the magazine also picture Ivanka Trump and Melania Trump into huggable style icons, when they're associated with ideologies that are anything but cuddly.

Oh, and the beautiful, gracious Melania sent a letter from her lawyer threatening action after Stoynoff's story ran.

Good job, People. Way to stand by your writers (and things you only wrote a month ago).

The prospect of having company over has the ability to turn any mom into a mop-wielding superhuman who won't let you touch anything in the house out of fear that you might make it dirty again. After 17-year-old Nick Denbow's mom cleaned their living room for Thanksgiving (almost a month early, no less), she taped off the entrance and put up a hilarious sign forbidding anyone from setting foot in the room. Denbow posted a picture of his mom's sign to Twitter, and it quickly went viral.

The sign reads:

This room has been cleaned for the holidays and is officially CLOSED until Thanksgiving.

Special permission will be considered for you to sit on my clean furniture or walk on my clean carpet only after the following conditions have been met:

1) You have showered and are dirt and odor free from top to toe.

2) You are wearing freshly laundered clothing.

If permission is granted... NO food or drinks are permitted at this time.

Thank you!

You may choose one of my many titles...

~Mom

~Payer of bills

~Chauffeur

~Queen of the castle

~Person ruining your life

~Bossy bitch in charge

Whatever works for you! =)

Yeah. She's not messing around. Nothing's gonna stand in the way of this queen's castle remaining completely spotless.