Anne, what you have written is beautiful, however I will admit that the last line doesn't sit well with me:
"A father is the first person to teach his baby that love doesn’t have to come with food".
Perhaps it is because it is very common where I live to hear "Don't let your baby nurse for comfort (use you as a pacifier etc) or he'll be overweight as an adult because he'll learn to associate food with comfort."
I think it's very important for moms (and dads, other support people etc) to understand that babies go to the breast for many reasons, not just for food, and they are all valid reasons. Babies don't think "I need love and comfort, I need to eat",  they think (or perhaps more accurately feel) "I need comfort, I need mom. Babies don't differentiate between mom and her breastmilk, it is all just part of the wonderful loving package that is mom.

Warmly,
Fleur Bickford BSc., RN, IBCLC, LLLL
Ontario, Canada

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