Breastfeeding my three-year-old is an act of resistance — WorldBreastfeedingWeek
, as she lay naked on my chest, skin-to-skin, the trauma dissolved and was replaced with this euphoric love. It was the bond that I knew needed to continue for as long as we both could manage.
Colonial systems and colonial ways of thinking often call this “extended” breastfeeding. But Indigenous kinship systems simply call it what it is—breastfeeding. ThePrior to colonization, in some nations, communities, and families, the breast-feeding process—and eventual—was strictly child-led. We believed that children knew when they no longer needed that form of attachment, comfort, and security.
In this way, breastfeeding is an infant’s introduction to building a relationship with the land. The land takes care of them during the most vulnerable times of their lives.In some instances, mothers can’t nurse due to illness, ailments, or a variety of other reasons. Historically, when this happened, there was no judgment against the mother.
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