Greetings Mothers,
The photograph that graces the cover of Time
Magazine, is getting to be quite controversial and it is interesting to see all
the viewpoints and arguments of mothers and others. If you haven’t seen it yet,
it is a photo of a 26 year old woman wearing skinny jeans and a black top, with a 3 year old standing on a
chair quite precariously, breast feeding!
Having grown up in Darjeeling, India..I guess
it makes me a little immune to such controversies because we were exposed to an
assortment of experiences that the breast feeding photo really does not offend
me, at all. Okay, so Time Magazine has sensationalized it a little, with the
child standing on a chair instead of how breast feeding is usually done but nursing
is very intimate and innate. I recall lots of children being
breast fed until they were six or seven years old and I don’t remember eye
brows being raised!
When we went to the
bigger cities, where rivers of people crowded the streets and nursing moms
walked around begging for food for themselves with babies hanging off their teats, making the
gesture with all their five fingers joined together as a symbol of eating and
touching their mouths, I felt a whole lot of compassion and sadness. This is a common site. So does this picture with this
lady affront me? No.
What I believe as a mother is that at any
given time, please check with you heart and do what is in alignment with your
spirit. America can be a very faddish nation, if something is popular then
everybody seems to follow suit, at one point with the South Beach Diet, Orange
juices went down in demand throughout the nation!! hah!
The most important thing is to know that the
child comes into this world with her/his lessons. Your child will be fine if
you are fine.
If you want to breast feed or not, it all
depends on how you feel. Not, how you are made to feel, by books, media or
group think. If breast feeding works, well and good, if not then know that either way you
are doing the best for you baby and be solid in your stand for that.
Books cannot tell you how to live and what to
do, it can give you an outline of the writer’s experience, but it can never
show you your exact path. When I left home at eighteen, I asked my father for
one most important advice and he said “Listen
to what everyone has to say but make sure you make your own decision, because
it is your life.” I have lived by this
rule most of the time and it has served me well through the years. Sometimes it
is easy to forget that you do have access to your own wisdom, and that it is
always available for you in the quietness of your mind, so use that and gauge
what do what is best for you, it always works!
Until tomorrow my beautiful readers, mothers, friends and
perhaps foes J I invite you to feel with your heart and if you have
trouble finding that wisdom within you I am only a phone call 609-1251 or an e-mail away.
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