Every Week Should Be World Breastfeeding Week!

My Fine Art of Motherhood series includes mothers from all over Southern California, with everyone from brand new moms to mothers nursing toddlers and tandem nursing mothers. I feel that breastfeeding should be celebrated and embraced year-round!

All of my life, I felt that my body was constantly betraying me. I struggled with body image problems, had various health issues. From the first moment when my milk came in, and my newborn son threw his head back and giggled with joy, I suddenly had a deep, great appreciation for what my body could actually be capable of doing.

In a museum, you see a painting of a mother breastfeeding a child and it is not shocking, it is beautiful. However somehow in our modern society, it has become somewhat taboo. I wanted my photo series to bring back the classic beauty of breastfeeding, and show there is nothing shocking or repulsive about this very special time of bonding between a mother and child.

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All of my life, I felt that my body was constantly betraying me

As a victim of childhood molestation from a family friend, and then later a rape victim in college, I always hated my body

Being a ballet dancer, I also had body image problems

I had periods where I battled various eating disorders

I struggled for years with infertility and several miscarriages

Finally I was able to finally carry a baby to full term

However, during labor with our son, my pelvis dislocated and fractured

I felt, yet again, that my body had betrayed me

Then I discovered breastfeeding and my life changed

I suddenly had a deep, great appreciation for what my body could actually be capable of doing

My newborn son threw his head back and giggled with joy while I breastfeeded him

As I have struggled most of my life with a serious hormonal imbalance

I had to work very diligently that first week with lactation consultants to get my milk to come in

It was like running a marathon

The result was one of my proudest accomplishments of my life

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