More and more celebrities and influencers decide to give visibility to breastfeeding through their publications on social networks, in which they speak naturally and openly about this area of parenting.
Actress Natalia Sánchez has been doing it since she became a mother for the first time, but with the birth of her second child, Neo, her publications on breastfeeding have multiplied, giving visibility to both moments of light and shadow.
In a post shared yesterday on her Instagram account, the actress reflected on tandem breastfeeding, the agitation of breastfeeding and that duality of feelings that all mothers who have breastfed have ever had , when you want your child to be weaned, but at the same time you don’t want breastfeeding to ever end.
With a beautiful photo breastfeeding her two children , Neo who recently turned one year old and Lia two and a half years old, actress Natalia Sánchez wanted to commemorate the last day of celebration of World Breastfeeding Week.
The text that accompanies the image is a real, natural and wonderful reflection of what it means to breastfeed two young children, and of the mixed feelings that on-demand, prolonged and tandem breastfeeding can provoke.
“The truth is that I could have chosen any of the 2000 photos that I have in this same position to celebrate the last day of the #WorldwideLactationMotherna Breastfeeding Week, all of them much more beautiful, with better light, better landscape etc … But the truth is that these me @marc_clotet did them yesterday, like so many other times, spontaneously, disheveled and in pajamas and I LOVE them because they perfectly portray our day to day …
Honestly, I don’t know how many times I breastfeed them a day … 8, 15, 20 times … and that’s not counting the nights that, with Neo, are still open bar for “milk-tonics”! The fact is that there are many and, although right now I cannot imagine my life without doing it, the truth is that I am going through a very strange moment in breastfeeding .
My heart is divided with Lia. On the one hand I feel that the time has come to leave it with her and, sometimes, it even bothers me (and a lot…) and other times I am the one who offers it. On the other hand I have Neo, whom I am dying to breastfeed all the time …
Breastfeeding can be defined in a thousand ways (depending on when they ask you) because it has its moments, like everything else in life. Right now, for me it is an exciting and beautiful roller coaster of continuous emotions and contradictions in which I never, NEVER stop learning.
Who knows what I think next year! Be that as it may, I keep everything beautiful that it has, which is a lot…! I wish you a happy day and a happy breastfeeding! If you have any questions about breastfeeding, remember @albapadibclc. He is going to save your life, as he has done to me so many times …
The feelings, sometimes contradictory, that breastfeeding generates
Although personally I was left with the desire to experience a tandem lactation (my daughter was weaned a few months before the arrival of her brother), I fully share the reflection of the actress, since in the more than two years my breastfeeding lasted (first with my daughter and later with my third baby) I also had moments of opposite feelings.
There were days when I wanted time to stop while my baby was on my chest , so that I could enjoy in an intense, unique and indescribable way the wonderful feelings that those moments that only I could experience gave me.
And is that breastfeeding my children made me feel powerful , strong and special, because I was the only person in the world capable of “nurturing” them in the broad sense of the word (both physically and emotionally).
Doubts about whether your milk will be good and sufficient (a question that the actress, Natalia Sánchez, also shared at the time), extreme exhaustion when your child demands breast at all times, both day and night, and uncertainty to know how long to continue breastfeeding or how to do a respectful weaning.
As Natalia says, “breastfeeding can be defined in a thousand ways depending on when they ask you” , and talking about it naturally not only helps to make dualities visible and help other mothers who are going through the same thing, but to find the support and understanding necessary to overcome the difficulties that sometimes arise and that can lead us to feel contradictory things.
And you, have you also experienced with your breastfeeding that duality of feelings that defines the actress?
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