Human Milk

August 1-7 every year is World Breastfeeding Week.  A time to shed some light on breastfeeding and educate the world on the benefits...or the need for breastfeeding.

So, here I go.

My views on breastfeeding over the last 8 years have evolved to nothing more than this:  why are we even fucking debating and questioning breastfeeding?  why is it even a topic?  why is their an alternate?

I am noticing that in my thought process and beliefs, I am a minority.  Our culture is so far from what i believe to be normal, simple methods of living that people have grown to think breastfeeding, especially breastfeeding a child that can talk, as something very strange and wrong.

I will continue to preach it from the rooftops that breastfeeding is natural, normal and NECESSARY until the day I die.  I will continue to breastfeed my toddler, my chronically ill child, who reaps the benefits of breastfeeding to a magnitude that even Dr. Jack Newman cannot even comprehend.  What human milk does for the whole human body is unexplainable, beyond our capability to really understand what it does.

So, that's just that.  I believe in it.  I believe in nature.  I trust my body.  And I live to educate and change the world.

One day, we will all unite in these beliefs again.  We have been there before. There was a time when we all believed in it.  And then convenience was invented.  And it ruined everything.  Just like instant meals and the supermarket ruined our food in the 1950's.

We need not trust anyone or anything but ourselves.  As sad of a truth as this is, it's the truth.  We cannot trust man made, synthetic milk to nourish our babies.  Breastfeeding is necessary.  If you don't think you can do it alone, ask for help and be persistent!

And here is something to think about:  We drink milk on our cereal, we drink milk at dinner.  Because somewhere along the way we were told and we trusted that it is good for us!  And after our 1st birthday, we started drinking milk, cobs of it, daily.  And now as an adult, the majority of you are drinking milk.  Because it's good for you!  So cow milk, processed milk from unethically raised cows is good for you, but human milk is....is gross?  It's gross that a 2 or even 6 year old drinks her mommy's milk?  That is strange!  Tell me, someone, please tell me the logic behind this.