Breastfeeding
After six months, most mothers slowly stop breastfeeding their babies. The American journalist and author of Birth Control: The Insidious Power of Men Over Motherhood has been going on for four years now. “We haven’t stopped breastfeeding because breastfeeding works for us,” she tells the American magazine PEOPLE.
The New Yorker still feeds her son once or twice a day. “Sometimes it happens more often when he’s in pain or sick, but it’s a way we connect and communicate with each other.”
Regulations
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), babies should start breastfeeding within the first hour of birth and be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of life. However, according to Yarrow, there are numerous benefits to continuing for longer. ‘It turns out that breastfeeding can reduce breast and ovarian cancer. When you breastfeed, the hormone oxytocin is released, so that feels good.’
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She also does it as a way to connect with her son. ‘I don’t think I would still be doing it if I didn’t enjoy it. I don’t just sacrifice myself, because my son also has other food. He doesn’t need me for his food. So I also do this to get in touch with him. It’s intimacy. It’s looking each other in the eyes. It’s cuddling,” Yarrow adds.
2023-09-15 10:35:02
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