My thoughts on breastfeeding
We started feeding Maggie real food recently. I have this strange pride in my biological power to grow babies. Maggie lived inside my body for nine months, and I fed her so well that she weighed nine pounds at birth. During the subsequent eight months she has eaten nothing but breast milk that I produced for her. She now weighs nearly nineteen pounds.
Tony has contributed one tiny cell to this project, and I am responsible for all of the rest. I produced nineteen pounds of cuteness. In a way, I’m kind of sad that Maggie will now start getting nourishment from other sources. I have enjoyed being depended on for all of her food. I still plan on breast feeding for a long time, but now my breast milk will be complemented by other foods.
My brother and I were breastfed. My mother always talked about nursing us with a smile even though she did it at a time when there was very little support for breastfeeding. Her mother and mother-in-law had bottle fed their babies. I feel like my decision to breastfeed was made much easier by my mother’s example. I never understood that smile that came to her face when she discussed nursing, but now I do.
It’s hard to describe how much I love nursing. I don’t think anyone can understand it that hasn’t had a fussy baby immediately calmed by breast milk. I feel the ability to produce milk is like a superpower. Men can’t do it, and many women won’t even try it.
The other wonderful benefits of nursing are evident in my body. I am now in a smaller clothes size than I was in 9th grade. I have lost all of my pregnancy weight plus thirty more pounds. I haven’t had a period since February of 2005. I think nursing gives me lots of “happy hormones”; I truly feel like these nine months have been the best of my life.
Tony has contributed one tiny cell to this project, and I am responsible for all of the rest. I produced nineteen pounds of cuteness. In a way, I’m kind of sad that Maggie will now start getting nourishment from other sources. I have enjoyed being depended on for all of her food. I still plan on breast feeding for a long time, but now my breast milk will be complemented by other foods.
My brother and I were breastfed. My mother always talked about nursing us with a smile even though she did it at a time when there was very little support for breastfeeding. Her mother and mother-in-law had bottle fed their babies. I feel like my decision to breastfeed was made much easier by my mother’s example. I never understood that smile that came to her face when she discussed nursing, but now I do.
It’s hard to describe how much I love nursing. I don’t think anyone can understand it that hasn’t had a fussy baby immediately calmed by breast milk. I feel the ability to produce milk is like a superpower. Men can’t do it, and many women won’t even try it.
The other wonderful benefits of nursing are evident in my body. I am now in a smaller clothes size than I was in 9th grade. I have lost all of my pregnancy weight plus thirty more pounds. I haven’t had a period since February of 2005. I think nursing gives me lots of “happy hormones”; I truly feel like these nine months have been the best of my life.
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12:40 PM
1 Comments:
i love ya chicklet :) you know how i feel as well. I tallied up how many months i bf and it came to a whole 33months give or take a few days :) so almost 3 years of my life spent with a kid attatched to the boob.
xoxo to Miss Mags from Mr. B
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