I was about to become a mother for the first time! To start a new journey, a new chapter of my life and to learn a million new things the second my baby was placed in my arms. That feeling was like a drug, this baby whom I had grown and bonded with for 9 months was finally here. I am so happy for that day.
At that moment another amazing thing happened. after birthing my beautiful little boy my mum who had held my hand, stopped my husband fainting and urged me on throughout labour, showed me how to breastfeed. She helped me latch him on, telling me to wait until his mouth was wide open, bring him into me and latch with enough nipple in his mouth to stop it hurting, she then watched proudly as I breastfed him, chatting away about her first breastfeed when she had me and the lovely lady who had helped her latch me on, the support she had from my auntie and the blissed out feeling when she fed her babies.... I was part of it... the passing down of skills from one generation to another, the network of women I had never been able to be part of when I heard them speaking about motherhood, pregnancy and babies. I was now part of it, I was being taught a lifelong skill and being handed the knowledge I needed to keep my baby alive.
I wanted to pass on this information to other mums. I wanted to arm them with the knowledge they needed to breastfeed their babies and I wanted to stand back and witness that blissful, proud look on their faces as their babies fed. Its one of the reasons I do what I do and the reason I love it so much. I now know how it feels from both sides.
A lot changed for me on that day, more than I ever thought would. Ben has made me so proud and I cant believe it has been 6 years already. He is everything I could have hoped for and more and I am so lucky to have such wonderful boys :)
