I’ve decided I want to write down my ‘Breastfeeding journey’. This is such a cliche term but I think it fits. There have been so many ups and downs and tears and jubilations, it’s like I’m on a rollercoaster where images of my life both past and present flash before my eyes causing tears and fears and smiles and laughter. The journey hasn’t ended and it feels sometimes like it will never end. Maybe it’s a train ride through the Himalayas that just goes on and on.
The Breastfeeding journey is really a journey into motherhood. The two things cannot be separated but I want to focus on breastfeeding (and the related, sleeping habits of my children) because I feel that it is where I have, from a Western perspective, been most controversial. I want to write about it for myself, to help me to understand and justify the decisions I have made and to help me to figure out where I am going next. I have no idea if anyone else will ever read this and I don’t really care if they do, I just want it out there because well, I like the sound of my own voice, even my digital voice and I feel it is easier to think about something if I imagine I am telling someone about it instead of talking to a brick wall.
I’m hoping to write and publish these regularly but how regularly will depend on my motivation and energy and my children. Each post will be about 500 words long as I think longer than that is just long and boring. I’m not sure how much detail I will go into, some parts of the journey include some very personal and sensitive subjects. Those posts may never get published but I will probably write them.
The Breastfeeding journey is really a journey into motherhood. The two things cannot be separated but I want to focus on breastfeeding (and the related, sleeping habits of my children) because I feel that it is where I have, from a Western perspective, been most controversial. I want to write about it for myself, to help me to understand and justify the decisions I have made and to help me to figure out where I am going next. I have no idea if anyone else will ever read this and I don’t really care if they do, I just want it out there because well, I like the sound of my own voice, even my digital voice and I feel it is easier to think about something if I imagine I am telling someone about it instead of talking to a brick wall.
I’m hoping to write and publish these regularly but how regularly will depend on my motivation and energy and my children. Each post will be about 500 words long as I think longer than that is just long and boring. I’m not sure how much detail I will go into, some parts of the journey include some very personal and sensitive subjects. Those posts may never get published but I will probably write them.