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10 things I love about breastfeeding
Published August 1, 2009 | 
It’s World Breastfeeding Week! Not like, you know, breastfeed the world, but let’s celebrate the beauty of breastfeeding. To celebrate, each day this week I’m going to have a breastfeeding-related post.
10 things I love about breastfeeding
1) I feel empowered knowing that my body provides all the nutrition that our baby needs.
2) It is our special time together.
3) The way she turns her head, mouth wide open, and practically attacks my breast when she’s particularly hungry. It reminds me of how very much she needs me.
4) Being so aware of her: the focus in her eyes as she drinks, the puffs of breath from her nostrils against my skin. I can study the curve of her ear and the fall of her hair. I feel the weight of her in my arms.
5) Watching her try not to smile when I make silly faces at her. There are times she loosens her latch to give me a little giggle, and times when she lets go and just laughs at me.
6) The primal connection to millions of years of mammalian history strikes me as I feed her. There are times I look at her and think, “I am a mommy animal, and you are my baby animal,” and I am filled with pride.
7) It often settles her into sleep and I watch her eyes roll back into her head as they flutter shut, her long lashes coming to rest on her plump little cheeks.
8 ) It often settles me into sleep, particularly in the mornings. I pull her into bed, lay on my side, latch her on, and we fall asleep together as she suckles.
9) It is convenient, cheap, and natural. As long as I’m around, she can be fed.
10) Milk breath. When she has finished eating and is still awake, her breath smells milky and sweet for awhile.
What do you love about breastfeeding?
everything you just wrote.. except that its about a toddler LOL
sooo sweet. I agree so much.
I love milk coma, the deep sleep after a nice long nurse.
My husband LOVES the milk breath…
Love it, friend!
Granted it’s been a good long while since I have breastfed, but my favorite thing was being up with her in the middle of the night, in her dark room, rocking and it was like it was just the two of us in the world. I was all she needed at that moment.
Oh, and I loved it when she’d reach up and rest her little hand on my breast.
I miss it. I want another baby now.
I love everything you mentioned!
I also love that it solves any problem — tired, cranky, just bumped her head? Nursing makes for a happy, happy girl.
Beautiful.
I love how breastfeeding is so comforting to my child. When she’s upset I can almost always calm her with a breast.
I love the little sounds. The tiny grunts and swallows. The little happy hum she does when the milk lets down.
When they’re brand new, I love the head bobbing around wildly searching for the milk. Rooting may be the most precious thing in the world.
I recently weaned my son since going back to work seemed to drain my milk supply even with pumping and I have found that I really miss that special connection breastfeeding provides. I especially miss the just before bedtime feeding when he would fall asleep with his little arm flung over my breast.