Culturally we do not measure the quantity of food… food is not just calories or nutrients. Food is more and so is breastfeeding
So there’s a reason why the breast is not made out of glass and it doesn’t have measurements on it because it’s meant to be a space of an inner connection that allows certain um, deeper processes of satisfactions that satiety and a deeper process of an attachment that’s going on when the mother is actually feeding the baby.
And it’s a very, um, it’s an intimate process at the same time. It’s a very holistic process and that cannot be measured by using a measurement such as spending 10 minutes of time on one breast. And the baby has to be moved to the other breast. Spending about exactly 12 minutes and then again, feeding after three hours.
So this kind of a narrative that we sometimes tend to build is not sinking in the natural senses or natural negotiations have gone between the mother and baby.
