Outside posts on images of breastfeeing
I’ve been catching up on reading one of my favorite blogs, the Motherwear Breastfeeding Blog, sponsored by the nursing garb company Motherwear. Tanya who writes blog posted an article from the Catholic News Service speaking on the removal and reintroduction of images of the Virgin Mary Breastfeeding Jesus the Christ. Following a link from a reader’s comment, I found a post by Christopher West, a research fellow and faculty member of the Theology of the Body Institute. He writes on Nursing a Sexually Wounded Culture.
These are great posts and so encouraging to me that I can be the complete version of myself as God intended!
Here in Norway, you’ll see mothers breastfeeding their babies just about anywhere, and nobody lifts an eyebrow. It’s the most natural thing in the world, so I don’t understand how so many people have a problem with women feeding their child in public. Maybe they could consider looking the other way if they have such a problem with it?
No kidding. I loved that about Norway! The other issue here that is sort of a non-issue i Norge is nursing beyong a year/”extended breastfeeding”. Many people think it’s weird here, (there is another Motherwear blog article about that) though I’ve never been approached. I don’t think it’s an issue in Norway because mothers usually nurse for a year and go back to work. Perhaps they pump and continue nursing while home, I haven’t heard anything to that affect.
However, it wasn’t always so nursing friendly in Norway. We had a childbirth class with a video and that showed that in the past Norwegian hospital practices were pretty common to how it often is here now.