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Mt last words on this subject, the exhange about which I have loved, is
something that made my father (father to 8 breastfed children) , a wordsmith,
howl with laughter. My 10 lb. birthweight son (nicknamed Baby Buddha) nursed
only on one breast ever at any nursing in all the years he nursed. As an
adolescent, he told his friends who were sampling a new sweetened iced tea, that
the best thing he had ever tasted in his life was breastmilk, The
conversation among the high school boys turned to how to test, market and sell
something that tasted that good. There was laughter and hooting involved. Coming to
our house was interesting to many of our kids friends, as I am sure is the
case for most of you. I once found those boys experimenting with a breast
pump. I'm sure that I shouldn't send that out into cyberspace! Anyway, it was my
daughter Susan who made my dad laugh so hard when she very clearly said
"Utter side" in cuiing to switch sides. Susan and her little friend Kristie were
playing with their dolls one day while we moms were having a spot of tea.
Kristie stopped the playing by saying to Susan "I feel like nursing, do you?
Let's go!" They are 35 now, nursing mothers themselves and they still laugh
about that conversation.
As professional and credentialed as we are, it is validating to share such
stories, leveling our private memories to a quite universal status among people
for whom this was and is cultural norm. For those for whom it was not the
norm to see their mother or aunties nurse, or to nurse their own dolls, etc.,
it is a view into the social and emotional life of those of us who aquired
the passion through our familial history. I hope that makes it more difficult
to see it all as odd. Women bashing other women continues to plague the
breastfeeding/artificial feeding population. Perhaps "out of the mouth of
babes--nursing babes" will add a bit of humor and hence, understanding to the
subject.
Jeanne Rago
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