Great Virtual Breastfest
In honor of the Great Virtual Breastfest I was looking for some pictures of Sam nursing. Considering he was attached to my breast every two hours for half an hour for the first month of his life, then every two to three hours for half an hour for the next month or two you’d think there’d be more.
Seriously, the boy loved breastmilk. Now (well the past week or two anyway) he’s pretty disinterested, but he really had no interest in eating pretty much anything else for the first 11 months of his life. Sure he’d humor me and eat some cheerios when I was driving, but even when he was 10 months old I’d occasionally have to pull over to nurse him in some parking lot, so desperate was he for my milk.
Even after he’d starting eating in solids for real, a bout of stomach flu stopped that for a while and he went back to full time nursing for at least three weeks. My mother-in-law was beside herself with worry.
So it’s odd that there are so few pictures of me nursing sweet little baby Sam. There were a couple of computer crashes so I haven’t gone through all of the backup discs of digital photos, but even on my Flickr account I was only able to come up a couple. Here they are in all of their glory.
Here we are nursing on the street.
And in the house at seven months old, rudely interrupted by cats.
And my favorite, though he’s not actually nursing he’s just finished, and the dribble of milk gets me every time.
Don’t forget to watch the video. It’s a bit fuzzy, but it’s beautiful.
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October 10th, 2007 at 11:52 am
Those are some great pictures! I LOVE the last one!
October 10th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
That last one is so sweet! My toddler only nurses to sleep now, but I still had a let-down reaction just looking at that one.
October 16th, 2007 at 6:32 am
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