World Breastfeeding Week

Today marks the final day of World Breastfeeding Week.

I was delighted to be selected for a professional photo shoot to honor breastfeeding mothers everywhere. Connie Granja -- a talented photographer, artist, and mother of three -- dedicated a great deal of her time and talent to taking photos of breastfeeding moms in south Florida. Taber and I met her at a library in Boca Raton and enjoyed a morning of conversation, play, relaxation, breastfeeding, and photo taking.

I've written a great deal about the significance of breastfeeding on multiple levels. You can read through my own journey as a new breastfeeding mother in "Birth, Breath, and Death."I've also written about breastfeeding in a number of my blog posts and articles. However, Connie's write up honoring full-term breastfeeding (breastfeeding as nature intended into the toddler years) is informative and inspiring. You can read her words and view more photos from her time with Taber and me here.

May we each do what we can to honor and support breastfeeding mothers everywhere.

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“When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.” -- Dr. Christine Northrup