Through the internet and through Facebook, many images of this type run, with a black background, a white frame and also blank text that, visually and with few words, show a lot of information.
A few days ago I got this one that you can see here, about breastfeeding seen from many different points of view and I was very funny because, although I do not breastfeed (because I do not think it is convenient), I am motivated by the cause, accustomed to talk about it and I am aware of the opinion of many people about it, concluding that everything What appears in this image is quite real.
I know there is not much to comment, because the image says it all, but in broad strokes I want to enter a little at each point, to leave a little more information about it.
What my friends think I do when I breastfeed
A friend is someone who does not judge you, someone who supports you in your decisions and only gives his opinion when he thinks it is really necessary. Probably for this reason, before a woman who breastfeeds, friends will simply see that: a friend who has been a mother and simply breastfeeds her baby.
What my parents think I do
This is the image that matches me the least with reality, at least in the cases I know. My parents have never gotten in if our children suckled or stopped breastfeeding and, at best, offered help if they felt it was necessary. The issue of considering ourselves more or less liberal, hippies, modern or whatever you want to call the matter would come more from other people who do not see too well that of seeing a two-year-old child sucking the breast of his mother or those mothers who they see that their daughters walk all day with the child hooked to the chest or hooked on the back, with baby carriers or foulards. Let's say that I almost associate it more with a parenting style than with the breastfeeding of a baby, at least on the part of the parents of the woman who breastfeeds.
What society thinks I do
Stop one day for a moment to explain to someone who does not know how to breastfeed how it works to pump you. Tell him what can be done with a machine and also explain that it can be done manually and that the thing works by milking the chest with one hand, the same, until milk comes out.
The quick summary he will make of the entire explanation will be something like an “Ah! Well, like the cows. ”
Without going into extraction issues, if you breastfeed a baby rather big, old enough to drink cow's milk from a glass, the image will be the same, that of a mother who wants to replace her milk with milk of the cow, as if it were normal for a child to drink cow's milk and not milk from his mother.
What the media think I do
In the image we talk about the media, although it is also part of a large part of society to think that a mother who is breastfeeding is exhibiting in a way, getting to annoy third parties.
In any case, given that many media are increasingly sensationalistic and as the breast in the images of the magazines is an erotic and provocative tool, it can be that any woman taking out a breast to give it to her baby is seen, in a way , as an exhibitionist.
What I think I do
Magic, many mothers believe they are doing magic when they breastfeed their children and, as a father who will never breastfeed, because I am not interested in starting to produce prolactin (I have nipples, I could also breastfeed), among other hormonal disorders, I think which are largely right: to create the best food for a baby and see how it feeds on it, how it grows with it and what is the state of health thanks to the fact that breast milk is not only food, but that It is a complement to the baby's immune system, is in a way something special, because it is like continuing, being the baby outside, the work that began inside.
What I do
In the last picture you see a happy and happy baby next to his mother's chest. I will not add anything to the message offered by the photo beyond the following sentence: breastfeeding is hugging your baby, offering your body, your skin, your contact and your smell. I, before that, I would also smile with happiness.
