Breastfeeding Blog Hop: Week 31 and It’s World Breastfeeding Week!!

August 2, 2012 By

Breastfeeeding Blog Hop

This post is part of the weekly Breastfeeding Blog Hop hosted by us and Sarah Jane over at Life as a Wife, Mummy, and Nurse. Link up your new or past post on this week’s topic and be sure to visit the participating blogs!

This week we are talking about World Breastfeeding Week (any breastfeeding-related post or one specifically about WBW)! 

Welcome to the new home of the Breastfeeding Blog Hop! You can check out our Breastfeeding Blog Hop page to check out the archives from The Slacker Mom and Life With Levi. We will also have each month’s topics listed there. If you would like for us to tweet your post, please leave your Twitter handle in the comments below so we can be sure to tag you!

Soon I’ll be holding my second nursling, starting a brand new adventure in the world of breastfeeding. To celebrate World Breastfeeding Week and (hopefully!) Lily’s birth, I would like to share this poem that I wrote last fall along with a picture of Abby that still takes my breath away.

 
Remembering
 
You snuggle close
in the crook of my arm
and latch, relax, and eat.
 
I watch your eyes,
as they drift slowly off.
Milk-drunk, you drift to sleep.
 
If I could hold
you–this way–forever
I’d not need Paradise.
 
But tomorrow
–and with it, an older
you–I dare not try to fight.
 
So I’ll snuggle
you close, hold you a while
longer. For just a little bit more.
 
For the days are
short when I can nurse and
cuddle your sleeping form.
 
 

Remembering…

 

What are the things that you’ll remember most from the tiny infant days?



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Jeniffer is planning to homeschool her children and is enjoying teachable moments with her 1-year-old and 1-month-old daughter. She loves sharing about her parenting journey, from breastfeeding to cloth diapering to pregnancy and beyond!
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  • http://amandasworldofmotherhood.wordpress.com Amanda B

    Beautiful poem Jeniffer

    • Jeniffer

      Thank you, Amanda. :)

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  • http://www.organicpatchwork.com Rachel

    Beautiful poem and photo, thanks for sharing! And thank you for hosting the Breastfeeding Blog Hop

    • Jeniffer

      Thank you for your sweet words, Rachel! We’re SO excited to be hosting the hop!

  • http://www.adventureswithcaptaindestructo.com Melissa Ryan

    This is a beautiful poem. I never knew how much I would miss the days of nursing my itty bitty newborn baby. I just willed the days away at the time because it hurt and took hours each time and I was exhausted. Now I miss my newborn.

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    • Jeniffer

      Melissa, I am NOT anticipating those days again, but I am excited about the sweet moments. :)

  • http://crazymamasblog.blogspot.com/ Camille

    What a sweet poem… Makes me so nostalgic since my nursling recently weaned herself!!

  • http://www.theadventuresofthefamilypants.com/index.html Mama Pants

    “If I could hold

    you–this way–forever

    I’d not need Paradise.”

    Yes. I am bawling over here. This simple line is exactly it. It’s paradise and it is fleeting. My goal has always been to treasure every single moment. What a beautiful poem. A beautiful post.

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