Anonymous:
Your comment on the NICU post made me wish I'd linked to this post. I'm so glad you found it.
It felt awful to quit breastfeeding when I did, but I'm okay with it now. My kiddos need me so much more than they need a specific form of nutrition.
If you get a chance to check out the book Amazing Minds, it offers a nice perspective on so many more comforts and supports that parents offer their newborns and young infants. They need our voices, touch, warmth, and scent.
It's easy to think in the blinkered state of postpartum/sleepless of early infancy that breastfeeding is the ONLY thing moms can exclusively offer our babies, but the truth is we're their original homes. We remain the most familiar thing to them in this new alien world. That's powerful.
Your comment on the NICU post made me wish I'd linked to this post. I'm so glad you found it.
It felt awful to quit breastfeeding when I did, but I'm okay with it now. My kiddos need me so much more than they need a specific form of nutrition.
If you get a chance to check out the book Amazing Minds, it offers a nice perspective on so many more comforts and supports that parents offer their newborns and young infants. They need our voices, touch, warmth, and scent.
It's easy to think in the blinkered state of postpartum/sleepless of early infancy that breastfeeding is the ONLY thing moms can exclusively offer our babies, but the truth is we're their original homes. We remain the most familiar thing to them in this new alien world. That's powerful.
