My Story of Trials as a Nursing Mother
My story of trials as a nursing mother! Nursing a baby is a very personal and a private time between a mother and baby. Apart f...
My story of trials as a nursing mother!
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I remember my first time, sigh!!!!! I was soooper excited and nervous at the same time. I did not know how to even hold my son
properly, biggest fear,'What if I drop him? He is so delicate, will I hurt him?' Latching and/or burping was another (Oh God, eyes rolling!), you know what I mean! I was very, very afraid that something
would happen to him.
My mother and husband were at the hospital with me when I nervously took my son from the nurse. Mom was looking on very tenderly and husband had an awe filled look on his face, where as I had a petrified look!
Mother’s instinct took over when he
latched on and I cried at the marvel of nature!
Nursing baby at the hospital was fine
with hospital staff and family, but when I went home and visitors started
pouring in is when I faced a huge dilemma! How to nurse baby without exposing
the body? Agreed it is the most natural thing, but do people give you privacy?
Are we sitting there doing ‘Janata Darshan’ that they fixedly stare at you and
behave as though they have nowhere else to look? I was feeling highly
embarrassed and did not know how to react!
I got the typical comments of, “You
have something different that we have not seen or got?” “What’s the big deal?”
See, my take is, is it about the other’s or is it about me! They may have seen other
girls while they were nursing their baby, but I have not exposed myself to so
many and why should I? Nursing my baby is a very personal and a private time
between my baby and me!
So when I sat down on the drawing board to design Maternity and Nursing wear, it was these and other experiences which were my guiding force. And the focus was to make them from an expectant mommy and a nursing mother's perspective and need.
Do read on, on how I used my above personal trials as a Nursing Mother to design discreet nursing wear in my next blog.
I would love to read your experiences, so please do share with me and
our readers.
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