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. Both acts should involve the gift of self to another. Husband and wife show their intimate love for each other physically and emotionally in the marriage act, giving themselves to each other without holding anything back, including their fertility. Breastfeeding helps the mother become a “gift of self ” to her baby continually throughout the day. Breastfeeding teaches a mother to put her baby first and to give of her time for the needs of her baby. This learning process occurs in an easy and natural way with breastfeeding.

Because we are only human, we know that there may occasionally be grumbling and complaining between husband and wife or by the breastfeeding mother over her particular situation. But in both relationships, the married couple and the breastfeeding mother should have the faithful commitment to be a gift of self to the other and to spend time, heart, and soul serving the other. Love is thinking of the good of the other and showing this thoughtfulness in words and deeds.

Sheila Kippley
Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood
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. Both biological acts have an impact upon the family and society. When the two persons, husband and wife, remain together in faithful marriage, both family and society benefit. Children do much better in all facets of their lives when they have their two parents living together in the same household. We all probably know people who claim the divorce of their parents was one of the worst events in their lives.

Breastfeeding likewise can have a significant impact, physically and emotionally, on the health of an individual and the family and thus upon society… Experts tell us that how a mother cares for her child during the first three years of life can have a tremendous impact upon the health of our society. God in his wisdom helps to ensure this care during most of the first three years of life through prolonged lactation.

Sheila Kippley
Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood
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. Scripture denotes God’s love for his people by referring to both acts. In the Old Testament, God’s loving care for his people is compared to the loving care of a nursing mother for her child (Isa.66: 12-13). In the New Testament, a husband’s love for his wife is compared to Christ’s spousal love for his Church (Eph. 5:21-33).

. Both acts involve love through intimacy, physical closeness, and emotional bonding. The marriage act is for babies and for bonding. Breastfeeding is also for babies and for bonding.

. Both acts are associated with rightful pleasure. God made both acts pleasurable and good to ensure that the race would continue. Thus husband and wife would want to come together in the marriage act, and the mother would want to stay with and nurse her baby.

Sheila Kippley
Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood
Sophia (800) 888-9344) is offering a 25% discount to any order for Breastfeeding and Catholic Motherhood (paperback and eBook) during World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7.  Offer expires Aug. 7, 11:59 PM.  Use promo code WBW25 when ordering.  Get this book for yourself, a priest, a seminarian, an expectant mother and religion teachers.