Make breastfeeding your own.
Mothers and babies for whom breastfeeding is easy and fun say that the breastfeeding relationship requires no more than a mother, a baby, and a breast.
Yet during my lifetime, I have witnessed the pacifier become part of breastfeeding. I see mothers nurse, then tenderly hold a piece of silicon in their babies’ mouths, while gazing sweetly and rocking.
Their baby wants to suckle from mamma, and signals this need. The mother responds by substituting an object for herself. Meanwhile, she is still there, holding her baby.
I don’t understand.
If baby goes to breast whenever it wants, it gets milk and is happy and matures more quickly. The breastfeeding relationship becomes unconscious, like breathing.
Adding an object to a 2-part relationship makes more work, and is not necessary.
Make breastfeeding your own. Only you and baby. No other person, belief, idea, object or command is necessary.
Only you and baby.
