This is for a challenge to scrap about breasts for breast cancer awareness month.
Journalling reads:
I donÂ’t know why it has to be such an issue with new moms. My kids are only 2 and 3. And you know what? They donÂ’t remember that they were breastfed. They donÂ’t have any memories of getting fed and nourished and filled with life at my breasts.
I know it was good for them. I know breastfeeding has value and I donÂ’t mean to downplay the good aspects of nursing. But the divisiveness, the cattiness, the judgment between mothers over nursing is heartbreaking.
Breastfeeding is truly one tiny smidgeon of parenting. Breastfeeding alone doesnÂ’t define a good mother.
I remember distinctly the pain and frustration I had when nursing didnÂ’t work easily. I pumped for 10 weeks before Libby figured out how to latch-- and during that time, I felt like a failure as a mother and as a woman. I felt like my body had betrayed me. I felt like I was unable to do what God had designed my body to do.
But if IÂ’d never been able to make it work-- it would not have changed my love and my heart for my children.
Motherhood is so much more. It is time, it is touch, it is tenderness.
I wish I could go back and be more gentle with myself. I wish I could go back and tell myself that really, truly, a bottle of supplemental formula wouldnÂ’t have made me a bad mother. Really, truly. Breastfeeding is great. But it isnÂ’t some transcendental thing that separates the good moms from the bad moms. ThereÂ’s so much more to motherhood than milk ducts and mammary glands.
Schtuff Kit by Holly McCaig @ PDW
Purty Pics and Acid Actions by Holly McCaig @ PDW
Fonts are Dirty Ego, century gothic, fg amelia, DSG Stamped Alpha
Sketch by me @ PDW
Date: Friday, October 27, 2006 GMT Views: 1215
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Sat, Oct 28, 2006 @ 2:21 PM
What an awesome page!!! So insightful and what a great perspective! It is so true, we should not judge based on breastfeeding or bottle feeding, there is usually more to the story. It is also very eyecatching! TFS!
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