Today, I was called to advocate in court (in my capacity as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) for an illiterate migrant woman who had her breastfed baby removed to foster care whilst a patient in a psychiatric ward.
You have two choices when your baby cries: to respond, or to ignore the cries. By responding, you are not only teaching your to love, you too are learning about the greatest love of all -unconditional love: you are accepting the child in your arms just the way he is. There are many points along the continuum of parenthood when it is easy to wish our child was just a little (or a lot) more ‘this’ or ‘that’ (easier in some way, depending on our definition of ‘easy’ or our child’s fit with our own personality and expectations….
