Why Does the Church Ignore This Wonderful Option? Breastfeeding is God’s plan for spacing babies!
The following post was written by Gina Peterson, the President of Catholic Mothers Nursing League (CNML). She also authored Getting Started With Breastfeeding for Catholic Mothers. For more information on CNML, see below.
Gina: “Ecologically breastfeeding has definitely been a blessing in my life! If I hadn’t gone along with my children’s need to nurse as long as they wanted and hadn’t gone along with my the natural infertility that resulted from it, I would not have had 16+ years of wonderful breastfeeding memories! Also, the spacing from ecological breastfeeding has afforded me more precious years of having children in my house. When I am all done with raising each of my children from birth to age 18, I will have been a parent for 31 years. Although some days are very challenging and frustrating, overall I enjoy having my children at home with me. Another blessing is the close relationship I now have with my children partially due to the mother I have become following the ecological breastfeeding philosophy. That is something that will last for many years, long after my youngest has weaned. It has helped me learn to be more responsive to each child’s individual needs as he or she grows older. Last but not least, I haven’t needed to bother with NFP charting for many years and had only a tenth of the cycles a typical woman has during a 16 year span.”
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If any mother is interested in teaching and promoting ecological breastfeeding in their parish, please contact Gina at the CNML website. In addition, you will have the opportunity to support all breastfeeding mothers in your parish. By teaching the importance of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life, you will have healthier mothers and babies in your parish or community.
Sheila Kippley