Nursing you Now

A few days ago, another API (Attachment Parenting International) mom posted this poem about breastfeeding that I wanted to share with readers here at Green Mamma.  Also, my friend Melody just forwarded me this touching story about a 29 year old female police officer in China who is breastfeeding 8 children right now because they are staying at an orphanage that does not have formula.   Honestly, I have cried over the earthquake in China and I have considered donating my breast milk to these orphaned babies.  It is more than terrible what the Chinese are coping with right now.

But, as promised, here is the breastfeeding poem:

nursing you now

nursing you now
can feel like embracing an earthquake,
taming a tangle
of limbs grown
suddenly, startlingly too long–
knots of knobby knees
and your daddy’s long, elegant toes
(no, no, baby, they don’t go in my nose!)

nursing you now
has become a dialogue
full of jokes and surprises–
your mouth, full of mischief,
chug chugs like a train
through your latch,
then pops off smiling
for a quick Choooochoooo!

nursing you now
can feel like holding a hurricane,
my wanderer waylaid
and wiggling away,
pinching and prodding and pawing
until this moment,
this instant–
now

nursing you now
is a fleeting island of calm,
your clear eyes locked with mine,
your hands softly circling my breast,
and the sweet perfect sound of you suckling–
the syllables of your satisfaction.

written by:
Elissa

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Image courtesy of 007 Breasts