A beautiful blog post about Native American Women breastfeeding and sharing their stories. There are some very real disparities in the USA when it comes to women of color and breastfeeding (and everything else in life), helping to normalize breastfeeding means telling these stories. Please take a moment and read this and then tell us your inspiring breastfeeding stories no matter what your background. From the post: A Yakima mother of 4 grown children told me her breastfeeding journey. She had all 4 of her children by the age of 19. For a bulk of the time she was breastfeeding she was nursing at least 2 children. She said that she had so much milk that her arms could not comfortably lie at her side. The nurses at the hospital in Yakima heard about “this Indian women on the rez” who made a lot of milk. She states one day a nurse showed up at her house with a pump that she operated with her foot. They told her that the babies in the NICU needed her milk and asked if she would pump milk for them. She agreed. The nurses would come by regularly and pick up her milk and bring it back to the sickest of babies. She did this for years. “I fed them all,” she said. “What do you mean you fed them all?” I asked. “I mean I fed them all,” she answered. Read more here: indiancountrybreastfeeds.weebly/blog/native-american-women-do-breastfeed
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:58:14 +0000
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