Sharing breastfeeding images is important in offering support.
Sharing breastfeeding images is important in offering encouragement.
Sharing breastfeeding images is important in offering information and options.
Sharing breastfeeding images is important in offering normalization.
Sharing breastfeeding images is important in celebrating.
Sharing breastfeeding images is important in rehumanizing.
Sharing breastfeeding images is important in offering recognition.
Not exact matches
Photographer Esther Edith, whose beautiful
images can be found in many of our posts,
shares her own
breastfeeding story with us.
By intentionally keeping that part of my
breastfeeding journey quiet, by not
sharing images of my baby receiving a bottle, by just
sharing images of my babies feeding only at my breasts, and by neglecting the real life bottled - up aspects of the
breastfeeding journeys of others, I perpetuated a romanticized myth of what constitutes successful
breastfeeding.
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Cornell
shared her own
breastfeeding image among her
breastfeeding support group and the idea became popular among other mothers who wanted to create artsy «brelfies,» or
breastfeeding selfies.
But when a woman
shares her
breastfeeding journey through
images, she is recognizing (and helping others recognize for themselves) this very important aspect of her life.
An
image that was
shared to inspire and encourage, to give someone the platform to
share their own personal story and
breastfeeding journey, had been used as a vile expression of superiority intended to hurt others.
Seeing how another woman navigates the obstacles she experiences in
breastfeeding, such as when Jenna
shared an
image of feeding her daughter with a supplemental nursing system, mothers who had never heard of such a thing suddenly had a new option.
And so I took that as an opportunity to write up a little editorial like here is why I
share these
images and
share some statistics about the differences between the
breastfeeding in the black community and
breastfeeding in the white community.
With her signature black - and - white
images, moms
share their struggles with
breastfeeding, how they made the choice to bottle feed and how they feel about this often negative stigma.