Maryn beautiful, thanks for this thorough presentation on the Golden Hour and the importance of intiating breastfeeding within that time. I’ve been passionate about breastfeeding since I watched my mother breastfeed my siblings. Then when I went on to having my own kids, breastfeeding was so normal and natural (not the first month of my first baby, though, but I did it!) and gratifying that I never had issues with it. But realizing how so many women struggle with it, I’ve been on a quest to kind of understdand the roots of this disconnection (I mean, we are mammals, this is where our definition comes from) so as to inspire women to dive deeper within and successfully breastfeed.

Anyways, just to complement, I would like to share the name of a book I read a couple of years ago and that helped me understand more (and actually confirm what I had always suspected) about how the industry of industrial milk sabbotaged women’s ability to simple nurse their young. It’s called “The Politics of Breastfeeding – When Breasts are Bad for Business”, by Gabrielle Palmer. Another book I would encourage women to read is “Maternity – Coming Face to Face with our own Shadows”, by Laura Gutman. She goes deeper into motherbabies’ psyche. It may be a tough read depending where people are at in their journey, but it is definetely mind-blowing and amazing.