Our children have both been bigger for their age so I’m used to the looks outside of home when I’m nursing a 2-year old that looks like a 4-year old and I just smile. I’m forever grateful for our pediatrician Dr. William Sears for opening my eyes and educating me about extended breastfeeding and child-led weaning. It has been especially helpful at times when friends and relatives wonder why I’m still nursing and how long will I continue. It’s not always easy to stand your ground especially as a first time mom so it’s important to have the knowledge to deal with criticism etc because you sure need that so that you don’t start to doubt yourself because of all the “advice” that is being given to you by mainstream parents and friends.
Category: Feed with Love and Respect
Food and healthy eating
The common question I hear from moms is how to get their child to eat and eat the right foods. As finding remedies for magnesium deficiencies among many other essential nutrients later in life might not be able to help in the same way they could during the growth. The truth is that, the answer to such situation is complicated and every child is different but after having 2 children, I think I’ve seen a pattern of behavior when it comes to eating, if you are looking to start working on healthy diets for your family check these Nutrisystem vs jenny craig reviews.
The best thing that can help moms give birth to a healthy baby, is that they should be involved to fitness, see appropriate fitness guides for pregnant women. It makes me sad to think that some parents use food as a power struggle. They pick the foods for the children and if the children don’t want to eat it, they are forced to eat it and sit at the table until the food is gone. When I hear stories like this from other moms how they treat their children, it just makes me ill to think that these children have to suffer like that and they might never have a normal relationship with food and proper nutrition. Many times I’ve heard in the same breath a comment about the child not eating any vegetables and forcing/punishing is the only way to get them down. Steroids have been illegal for some time now and everyone knows the potency of the real thing but legal steroids and their alternatives are quickly catching up as a viable alternative to the black market illegal steroids. Over the last few years the serious body builders have been using the alternative legal steroids and achieving amazing results. Legal steroids like Androstenedione ( andro), 1-AD,1-test and 4-Androstenedione are the closest thing to real steroids and these are available legally. These alternative steroids when used correctly are both a safe and effective way to enhance and boost strength, energy and muscle recovery. The best legal steroid in the market today is D-Bal. This supplement is a great legal alternative to the famous but troublesome anabolic steroid called Dianabol. The supplement has done an incredible job in replicating the insane results that Dianabol is so famous for while remaining extremely friendly to the body. The other best legal steroids such as DecaDuro, D-Bal, Clenbuterol, Winsol, Testo-Max, and Anadrol. As bodybuilders, we are always on the lookout for something more, something that will give us that competitive edge over others. Whether that be a hidden new technique, a different way of approaching the rack or imbuing the hottest and newest chemical straight from the lab, we’re there to give it a shot. You can find here the lots of good info about the SARMs reviews. Enter the world of SARMs, a promising new synthetic drug meant to enhance the performance of athletes all around the world. In this SARMs review, we’ll talk about the most popular SARMs, about the best SARMs stack for bulking, cutting, fat loss and strength. You will also learn about their subtypes and their way of administration.
I’m sure we can all remember some times from our childhood and what it was like when we were told to eat something that we didn’t like. Or we were told to finish our plate because other children in the world are suffering and food was not intended to be wasted. I’m sure everyone who was forced to eat a certain food they didn’t like as a child, will not eat that same food today as an adult. The impact of the forcing food, can be so severe that it carries through adulthood and affects the way we view food in general which can lead to bad nutrition, wrong portion sizes and weight gain. Try using a good supplement, and eating a fresh bread without gluten, also the keto protein powder you will find it and you will feel so much different within the first weeks of usage. One of the best organic protein powders for athletes and active gym-goers organic protein powder just happens to also be plant-based. In your body, protein is crucial for muscle formation, the health and function of skin and other tissues, digestion, blood clotting, hormone synthesis, bone and ligament strength, and the balance of your blood pH, among other functions.
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The keto diet. what’s the keto diet and where can I find the best keto diet? In simple terms it’s once you trick your body into using your own BODYFAT as it’s main energy source rather than carbohydrates. The keto diet is extremely popular method of losing fat quickly and efficiently but if you have a proper diet chart from expert as Keto Balanced, it would be beneficial only by then.
The Science Behind It
To get your body into a ketogenic state you want to eat a high fat diet and low protein with NO carbs or hardly any. The ratio should be around 80% fat and 20% protein. this may the rule for the primary 2 days. Once during a ketogenic state you’ll need to increase protein intake and lower fat, ratio are going to be around 65% fat, 30% protein and 5% carbs. Protein is increased to spare muscle tissue. When your body intakes carbohydrates it causes an insulin spike which suggests the pancreas releases insulin ( helps store glycogen, amino acids and excess calories as fat ) so sense tells us that if we eliminate carbs then the insulin won’t store excess calories as fat. Perfect.
A child’s body is naturally made to know when it’s full and what foods to eat to get a balanced nutrition. If the only foods offered at home are nutritious and healthy, then the child naturally gravitates towards those foods especially if he is allowed to listen to his body and its needs by not forcing to finish the plate or a certain food group.
Dr. Williams Sears advises to shoot for a balanced week of nutrition when it comes to toddlers instead of a day. One day a toddler might be extremely picky and only eat a little bit and yet the next day the same child might eat what might seem huge portions for a child. This is all common behavior in children. One reason why toddlers, for example, have a hard time sitting still and eating a plate of food, is because they are too busy to eat. Playing with toys is so much more fun than sitting down at the table and eating. The best way to help with that is to provide a snack tray with healthy foods on it that the toddler can refer to as he is playing without forcing him to sit and eat when he is not ready. Vertigo is one of the most common forms of dizziness The sensation of feeling off balance or feeling like you or the world around you is spinning are common symptoms of vertigo. For some a vertigo may cause spinning and unsteadiness, but for some it can result into nausea, headache, excessive sweating, vomiting, temporary hearing loss, or abnormal rapid eye movements (nystagma) . The symptoms can last a few minutes or take place in regular spells. Vertigo can also range from being objective, subjective or pseudo in nature. Objective vertigo is when a person senses the world moving around him, subjective vertigo can be described as a feeling when the person feels he is spinning, pseudo vertigo is a strong sense of internal rotation inside a person’s head. Vertigo is mostly induced by problems caused in the inner ear which could probably be due to minute calcium particles fastening in the canals of the inner, causing an internal inflammation hindering the inner ear to send appropriate signals to the brain connected to gravity. These signals are essential to keep your balance. A vertigo can arise out of a stroke, tumour or severe head and neck injuries. bppv vertigo is one of the most common causes of vertigo — the sudden sensation that you’re spinning or that the inside of your head is spinning.Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo causes brief episodes of mild to intense dizziness. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is usually triggered by specific changes in the position of your head. This might occur when you tip your head up or down, when you lie down, or when you turn over or sit up in bed.
In our family, we only buy organic and healthy food for home. When we are out and about, we don’t worry about it as much but at home we want to create a safe haven for food so that the children’s growing bodies and our bodies stay healthy and strong.
I pack our son’s lunch for school every day because he has requested me to do so and I’m glad that my years of trying to show him the right way to eat are paying off. Our son is in 2nd grade now and last year he wanted to buy school lunch every now and then. I let him do that because I wanted him to have a variety and I also wanted him to tell me which foods he liked and make his decision on what to eat for lunch each day. This year he told me that he didn’t want to buy and preferred I made his lunch.
I don’t feel like eating the same thing or a certain food for lunch every day so I don’t expect my child to eat whatever I choose for him either because he might not feel like eating a specific food on that day. When he was a toddler and a preschooler, we used to allow him to eat his dessert before eating his main food if dessert was available and he wanted it. After taking few bites of his dessert he came back and ate his main food every time and actually forgot about the dessert. He never learned to be obsessive about desserts or sweets because we never made them a big deal. I learned this trick from Dr. William Sears. I feel fortunate that I’ve listened to his advice and my own heart and my children over the years so that I’ve been able to make better decisions when it comes to food.
Our son’s favorite foods are fruits and vegetables and I contribute that to the fact that we never pushed him to eat them. They were just always offered and available in case he wanted to have them. We also have taught him that we eat until our bellies feel full not until the plate is empty. Our son tells us all the time that so and so of his friends have to eat their whole plate empty or they don’t get a dessert. These are also children who have major sweet tooth and trouble eating fruits and vegetables on their own. I wonder if there is a correlation there.
Our daughter (2-years-old) is now being “taught” the same way about food. We offer her fruits and vegetables and many times she wants them more than any other food group. Some times she hardly eats any and that’s fine too. I don’t worry about it because I know that once the next meal comes around she might want them again. She also nurses and many times she prefers nursing over food. I’ll sometimes nurse her first because she wants to and then offer her food in case she is still hungry.
Our daughter is what someone might consider overweight but she is not considered overweight because of the nursing. Our pediatrician, Dr. William Sears, noted that if she was this weight with getting formula or cows milk and/or bad nutrition (cakes, candy, soda chips etc) perhaps then it would be a concern but because bulk of her nutrition is nursing, her body will use up all the healthy fats stored because they’re from breastmilk which is stored differently than normal fat coming from excessive eating or bad nutrition. I’m fortunate again to have Dr. Sears instead of some mainstream pediatrician who has very little knowledge or information about nursing and its benefits let alone knowledge about extended breastfeeding.
What I’ve learned over the years as a parent is not to obsess about my children and their eating habits as long as I offer them healthy foods to eat most of the time. Our children also get occasionally junk food at other people’s houses and at birthday parties, from grandparents etc and I don’t worry about it because I believe in moderation and not denying yourself or your child of certain foods that can become a huge problem later on. You can eat pretty much anything in moderation as long as bulk of your diet is healthy combined with exercise.
Reija Eden – www.attachedmom.com
Getting Dad into the Game
I often hear new moms tell me they are pumping so that dad can give the new baby a bottle. Over and over I hear that they want dad to feel involved and feeding an infant a bottle is just the way to do it.
As the mother of four, this seems redundant to me. My motto is always to prioritize and simplify. If you are nursing your baby, feeding the baby is not a task that needs doing by someone else. You pretty much have that one covered… and you can accomplish it while ostensibly sitting down and thumbing through a magazine or checking your e-mail. In my world, that means nursing is a baby duty I am happy to do! To let someone else feed the baby actually means more work for me, not less, as I have to figure out a time to pump when the two-year old does not tug at the machinery and what the heck do you do with a crabby newborn while you use both hands to juggle the pump anyways? Such a production!
So then, where does that leave dad? And older siblings? And grandparents? And everyone else who wants a piece of that delicious baby-care pie? Fear not, new babies are nothing if not, how can I put this graciously, full ’o needs. Even when mama is taking care of 100% of the feeding needs, baby still needs changing, bathing, dressing and holding. There are still plenty of baby-care duties that can be delegated and provide those special moments for bonding… tasks that actually need doing.
Send dad off on a walk with a well-fed, drowsy baby in a soft baby carrier and put your feet up and enjoy 20 minutes to yourself. Dad gets to bond with the new baby, dad feels competent because babies are generally content nestled in a soft carrier. Win- win! Let older siblings be in charge of choosing the outfit for the day, or singing to the baby during diaper changes. Grandparents can bathe and cuddle the new baby. There is never a shortage of baby care duties. And, hey, if someone really, really still wants to feed the baby, no worries, in 6 to 8 months, baby will happily accept cheerios, banana and avocado from just about anyone.
Breastfeeding can be intense the first few months. The nursing relationship between mama and nursling can seem exclusive. How have you included other members of your family in baby bonding time outside of the nursing relationship?
Cobathing
Bath time in our house is a social event. Since becoming the parents of a demanding toddler (armed with a growing vocabulary), my husband and I can hardly remember the days when taking a shower added up to a) showering alone, and b) getting in, washing up, and getting out.
In our childhood, my husband and I both remember bathing and showering with our siblings and mothers, probably out of convenience and because bathing together equaled more playtime (does anyone else remember playing with tub town toys?). However, once we reached a certain age, our parents designated separate bathing times for each person; co-bathing became something special that only small children could do, and bath playtime was all but lost.
Fast forward a few decades to the present. Nowadays, showering is a two-person activity and sometimes a group event. When Annabelle was a newborn and even a baby under age one, we bathed her in our tub or placed her in a toddler tub with natural bath products. This worked swimmingly so far as getting her clean was concerned; however, she howled with disapproval whenever mom or dad tried to sneak off to the tub by their lonesomes. Eventually, being the swift thinkers that her parents are, we realized that our little one might be more content if we simply invited her to bathe with us. And well, she is.
On a typical day, Annabelle likely showers twice in the morning, once with my husband and another time with me; and if it’s been a particularly messy day or we’ve been at the public swimming pool, she showers yet again. Most of the time, she sits down in the tub and plays with her toys while one of us focuses on the business of washing up. My husband tends to shower first, so he takes care of soaping Annabelle and getting her clean. By the time I make my way to the shower, Annabelle is eager to join me for a second round of tub fun (though this time I shower and simply let her play with toys, collect dripping water with a cup, and splish and splash).
Bathing together serves many purposes for our family. As most folks in the western world do, we bathe for cleanliness. But now that our toddler insists (and I’d say rightly so) on bathing with her mom and dad (and sometimes both at the same time), taking a shower or running a bath invites play, allows us to bond, and offers the opportunity to relax and heal after difficult days. Additionally, cobathing allows breastfeeding mothers, like myself, to nurture their babies, soothe engorged breasts, and to enhance milk production. A La Leche League article recommends that parents of adopted babies nurture their breastfeeding relationship by bathing together. Another La Leche League article suggests that breastfeeding mothers of newborns who have had a difficult time establishing nursing try cobathing as a natural way to soothe mom and baby, connect with each other, and relax into the breastfeeding relationship.
For our family, cobathing is more often than not, a positive way to spend time together, to play, and stay clean and healthy. To establish a safe and fun bath in your family, you may want to check out Dr. Sears’ Bathing with Baby tips. What are your thoughts about cobathing? Does your family enjoy showering together or is bath time a sacred ritual for spending some time on your own?
Something New
To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week on my personal blog, I challenged myself to come up with seven breastfeeding stories – one for each day of WBW. This one was the most popular.
Happy Hump Day! Today marks the halfway point of the exciting holiday week known as World Breastfeeding Week. Only a few more days to get the holiday shopping done.
And here I am, still plugging through with this challenge of coming up with seven breastfeeding stories – one for every day of WBW. At the time, it seemed like a good idea, but sometimes when I sit down at the computer I wonder what words are going to pour from my nimble fingers. To add to the insanity, this isn’t a challenge I read about anywhere, but something I just came up with on my own. I never claimed to be the smartest breastpump in the maternal care aisle.
So on this hump day, I thought I’d recount a humorous story from my breastfeeding days. It is my opinion that breastfeeding mothers have to come equipped with a sense of humor; you can’t spend months and months with bodily secretions spraying everywhere without having a good laugh.
The problem however, is that a lot of the funny things that happen are situational in a you-had-to-be-there sort of way. So it’s difficult coming up with a funny story that stands on its own. I’m not sure this fits the bill, but its the best I could do.
It all starts with me. I startle really easily. Really easily. As in, my husband can be home, and I KNOW he’s home, but then he walks into the room I’m in and I look up and see him and get the pants scared off me. I threaten to put cat collars on my family so I can tell they’re within 15 feet of me. Still, he has a sadistic obsession with setting me up.
My daughter was a couple of months old, so my son was three. I had just taken a shower, during which unbeknownst to me, my husband had told my son to stand right outside the bathroom door to scare me when I came out. What a great, supportive family I have.
I opened the bathroom door, naked as a jaybird, and there stood my little son. Holy cow, seeing him right there when I opened the door scared the bejeepers out of me. Which of course, was the effect my dear husband was going for.
So I opened the door, Son said boo, I screamed, and then…Niagara Falls. Just when I thought I knew everything about breastfeeding, something new happened. I learned that a huge scare, when preceded by a nice hot shower makes the milk GO! Uncontrollably. From both sides. Shooting across the room.
A little trick about lactating is that if the flow starts an inopportune time, all one has to do apply pressure, and the flow will stop. In public this can be discretely accomplished by crossing your arms. The trick however, is that you have to remember this little tip. Which I did not.
I was laughing so hard at the completely physiological response to being scared witless that I couldn’t do anything that involved common sense. Instead, I just leaned over the sink and sprayed about ten gallons down the drain, which just caused me to laugh even harder. Which of course, didn’t help matters.
My husband came in then when he heard the commotion, thinking that his cruel little plot had been successful. When he saw the incredible direction his trick was going, (and was still going…and going…and going) I’m sure he felt quite proud of himself.
Several minutes later (still pouring into the sink) I finally did manage to turn my brain on and get everything stopped.
So here’s a tip that’s not in any breastfeeding resources – don’t get scared!
Breastfeeding while pregnant: trying at times, but ultimately worthwhile
Originally posted on May 25, 2008 on Crunchy Domestic Goddess
When I became pregnant with my son, my daughter Ava was about 20 months old and still nursing regularly. While I had friends who’s children had self-weaned when they became pregnant, I had my doubts that my “na-na”-loving kid would consider weaning for a second, even if my milk dried up.
At that age, Ava was still a comfort nurser, and still woke at night to nurse. After finding out I was pregnant I worked towards gently night weaning her by letting her know she could nurse as much as she wanted during the day, but at night the na-na had to sleep and she had to wait until the sun woke up in the morning to have mama milk.
By 22 months, miraculously (or so it felt) she was sleeping through the night. (Can you hear the angels singing? I thought I could. 😉 It was wonderful.) She was still happily in our bed, but no longer waking for na-na, and I was able to get the sleep I needed while growing a baby.
Of course, night weaning her did nothing to reduce her desire to nurse during the day, even when my milk dried up (somewhere around 16 weeks I think). However, as my pregnancy progressed, I decided that I wanted/needed to cut down on the number of nursing sessions per day for a variety of reasons. 1) My nipples were becoming increasingly tender. 2) My hormones were all kinds of crazy and the feeling of her nursing when there was no milk to be had sometimes honestly made my skin crawl. 3) I had my qualms about tandem nursing a newborn and a toddler.
The negative and skin crawling feelings were very much a surprise to me and I admit I felt guilty about it. I felt fortunate that I had a group of friends to bounce these feelings off of and was happy to learn that while all pregnant women don’t feel this way, my feelings were certainly not out of the ordinary and others had experienced similar feelings as well.
I used distraction to help reduce the number of times Ava nursed and my husband Jody helped out a lot too. We would ask Ava, “What else could we do to make you feel better instead of having na-na?” and often sang silly or happy songs together rather than nursing. It wasn’t always easy and sometimes I let her nurse even though I didn’t want to, but eventually (about a month or two before Julian was born), she was down to nursing only 1 time per day – before bedtime.
Before Julian was born we talked a lot with Ava about how he would be a little baby and need a lot of mama milk to grow up big and strong like his big sister. We really wanted to get the point across that he would be nursing all the time. And we talked up how she was a big girl and got to do lots of things that Julian was too little to do. I was also sure to let her know that we’d still have our “special na-na time” every night before bed. It honestly worked pretty well.
There were a few weeks towards the end of my pregnancy that I seriously considered weaning her all together. Like I mentioned earlier, my hormones were wreaking havoc on me and nursing her, even only once per day was hard because I had some seriously strong negative feelings that were hard to control. There were a few times that I had to tell her that I was feeling frustrated and needed a break and I would have to take a minute to calm and center myself before letting her latch back on. I think keeping the lines of communication open like that and being honest with her was helpful.
Part of the reason I didn’t wean her completely then was because I felt like it’d be harder to try to do that, than it would be for me to just suck it up and muscle through the last few weeks. I know that sounds horrible, but I knew that when my milk came back in and my hormones weren’t so crazy, nursing her would not affect me so. And I was right. It got easier, much much easier once Julian was born and the milk started flowing freely again.
At the end of my pregnancy, I remember every night I would lay down for some quiet, cuddle time to nurse Ava before bed, she would hold onto baby (put her hand on my belly), and I would wonder if it would be our last night together just the two of us before her baby brother would join us.
In retrospect, I’m glad that I didn’t wean her, despite my strong feelings because I think tandem nursing has been a nice bonding experience for the two kids. On the somewhat rare occasion that Jody is traveling for work and I’ve had to get both kids to bed by myself, we’ve shared some pretty special (though definitely awkward) times together with both of them at the breast, holding hands or giggling at each other, and it’s moments like that that I wouldn’t trade for the world. 🙂
I want to add that this is my experience only. Just because it was trying at times for me, does not mean it will be for everyone. It’s impossible to know how pregnancy and breastfeeding will go for each woman until she experiences it for herself and then can decide what is best for her and her family.
Amy @ Crunchy Domestic Goddess
Breastfeeding Twins?!
“Are you still breastfeeding?”
Every woman who breastfeeds her children will, without fail, at some point be asked that very pointed question.
“Are you still breastfeeding?”
It almost doesn’t matter how long you’ve been nursing for: someone is going to ask. At three months? Six months? A year? Doesn’t matter. Someone will ask you.
Sometimes the subtext is awe: “Wow! You’re still nursing your babies! That’s great!“ Most times, however, the questioner asks in a most impatient manner. As if there’s a deadline to meet and you’re missing it. “What are you doing still nursing those babies?”
In my case, the fact that I decided to nurse the twins in the very first place was a big surprise. My doctor (For whom I have the greatest respect.) made it very clear that by nursing the twins full time, I’d be off in some exotic land where few women in our area had ever tread. Then again, I was apparently setting records for birth weights and length of gestation, so perhaps she wasn’t too surprised with my decision to breastfeed.
Nursing hasn’t always been Easy Street, either (See my rant from the first month if you don’t believe me.). Don’t get me wrong: once you’re in the groove, nursing is easy. It’s finding your groove and staying in it that are the hard parts.
When I started out, I wanted to tandem nurse the twins, get them on a schedule and possibly get a little more sleep. Well, it turned out that the twins had a touch of reflux and were tiny geysers of vomit on a very regular basis until they were about four months old. Thus, instead of tandem nursing, I was serially nursing twins to avoid at least some of the puke headed my way.
I’ve been bitten, pinched, pulled, vomited on, gotten plugged ducts, swollen and inflamed breasts from missing nursing sessions, Emma developed thrush, and Logan developed a preference for one side over the other.
Even with all of that, nursing has still been one of the best things I have done for the twins and for myself. Also? I produce a helluva lotta milk.
Now that we are tandem nursing, I get a bit more sleep at night. The weight loss aspect has been fabulous (I gained 65 lb for the pregnancy and by 7 months postpartum, it was gone. No exercise, just nursing and normal life with twins. I imagine that if you exercised, the weight would whip off even faster. I’m just lazy.). The twins are very snuggly when cuddled up and nursing together. Sometimes they reach over and pat the other twin. Of course, they also sometimes poke and pinch the other twin or attempt to steal the opposite breast, but life is tough around here.
Emma nurses more than Logan does, so when he finishes first, he sits up and smiles at me and we get a little extra bonding in: nose kisses, baby hugs, giggles. When he tires of me, I let him slide off my lap and crawl around the room. Emma and I then snuggle up together. She will finish off Logan’s breast (Because there’s always more milk in there.) and then crawl all over me like a puppy. She also engages in Nurse-robatics: standing up while nursing, twisting around, getting into Down Dog position, attempting to climb over my shoulder all while still engaged in lip-lock. Ouch! She also pats my tummy, plays with my hair and checks my teeth.
You know, just to make sure they’re still in there.
I respond by nibbling on her fingers and chewing on her neck, so I think we’re even.
Let me leave you with some of my hard-earned twin feeding tips:
5 Tips for Successfully Breastfeeding Twins
- Get a good book. I highly recommend Mothering Multiples: Breastfeeding and Caring for Twins or More! Read it. Ideally before the twins arrive.
- Be prepared to supplement with f*rmula. The biggest secret to nursing twins is to keep in mind that you may not have milk enough for two on the day they’re born. It took me a few weeks of pumping and supplementing with formula until my production increased enough to feed both of them fully. Be prepared to supplement and don’t beat yourself up over the fact that this, too, is another area where having twins is decidedly different from having a singleton.
- Herbal supplements are your friend! Herbal supplements like Alfalfa, Blessed Thistle and Fenugreek will help increase your milk production significantly. Trust me! Or if you don’t trust me, read up about it at KellyMom.com.
- Eat well. When breastfeeding twins, you’ll burn up about 1000 extra calories a day. You need to eat well to support your body’s ability to do that. Now is not the time to go on a diet to lose the pregnancy weight gain. It will come off. Be patient!
- Drink water. A lot of water. I’m not kidding. Why aren’t you drinking some water? Go get some!
Now when someone asks, “So are you still breastfeeding those twins?”
We’ll answer, “Hell yeah!“
Keeping a-breast…
It began when you were very small,
No other source of food at all,
every hour, sometimes less,
you would suckle at my breast.
Everywhere we went they’d smile
supportive of us all the while,
You were young and cute and small
of course I breastfed, after all.
Strangers told me they were proud
in voices strident, voices loud,
that I chose to bare my breast.
They told me it was for the best.
Now that you walk, and run, and play,
our nursing support has become dismay!
Though you are still a babe to me
a big kid and breasts is all they see.
Despite the heads that shake away
We still nurse all night and day!
You are still my little one,
we will nurse until you’re done.
(Support breastfeeding, celebrate World Breastfeeding Week!)