21/05/2024
THIS KID IS NOT EVEN MY KID! September 2020.. both my friend, and I had just given birth to our babies about two months before. She was going through postpartum depression, and absolutely beating herself up about the fact that she could not breast-feed her baby because she knows of the health benefits! Her and I went to lunch so that I can get her out the house, and of course, being moms we had to bring our babies! Her baby started crying because he was hungry so she tried to give him formula because her postpartum depression caused a dip in her milk production. The baby yelled and absolutely was not interested in taking the bottle so she asked me if I minded feeding him my breastmilk I gladly accepted the opportunity to nourish another baby and help out a friend! Fun fact: during slavery, black women would nurse white babies because it is so draining to do the white mothers did not want to do it themselves. I feel like this is part of the reason society looks down on breast-feeding so much, maybe like a lingering effect of the past! More white women breast-feed than black women and the risk of infants dying from SIDS happens to be so much greater in black babies! Scientist have proved that exclusively breast-fed babies, have a much lower risk of dying due to sids! it is a proven fact that breast-feeding reduces the risk of breast, cancer and ovarian cancer in Moms! Breast-fed babies are proven to have a higher IQ overall and be sick much less often than other babies yet in America, 60% of women don’t breast-feed! After a woman gives birth, the baby latching onto his mother, causes the uterus to contract, which naturally helps stops bleeding! Mothers burn 1000 calories daily from breast-feeding alone.. scientist compared one day of breast-feeding, a baby to the equivalent of running 4 miles! It is draining enough for a mother to sacrifice her body for the betterment of her babies.
Normalize breastfeeding!