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Home > How I decided to start a Boobment

How I decided to start a Boobment

Written by:  Jamie

This is a guest post for iamnotthebabysitter.com. We encourage voices of all mothers on the topics discussed on this blog. The views and opinions may not be those of iamnotthebabysitter.com, but we encourage and welcome respectful debate and the opinions of all mothers.

I often sit back and reflect on the early days of my son’s life. If I had the chance, I would do things similarly but with understanding and more patience.

 

Dear son, I am sorry, for not knowing then what I know now. The birth was traumatic because I didn’t know a natural birth was better. I am sorry that I didn’t hold you just a little bit tighter on those inconsolable days and nights. I am sorry that I didn’t see the signs of what you were going through and struggling with as such a tiny, helpless, little person. Most of all, I am sorry that 22 months seemed like long enough to nurse you.

 

5 years ago, God gave me a son – my second son and a child I desperately desired. He wasn’t quite the baby I imagined. He cried all the time, could not ride in the car. He was rarely consoled by anyone and desired no one but me. I was a train wreck. As if the challenges of being a milky mess for the first time in my life was not enough for me to wrap my head around, my son was just as big of a mess as well. Not just because he was born with sensory issues or because we breastfed past a year, but because that’s who he is.

 

Who he is defines who I am. Because my child demanded to eat when he desired from my bodyand because being close to me was his only need, we are forever attached all the way to the core of our beings. As the years have turned like a page in a book, he’s now five and not much has changed. We still struggle with the same things he has struggled with all his life. There is one thing that has changed and that is my way of parenting. The way he is and nursing him on demand molded me as a mother and gave me another purpose in life. That purpose is to save nursing moms and babies from facing these challenges unarmed and blinded by the myths of society.
It is not ok let your baby cry it out, it’s natural to breastfeed, and it’s instinctual to hold your baby close to your body. Co-sleeping is healthy and it goes right along with everything that makes you a gentle, nurturing being. In pursuit of that purpose, I realized that there was one roadblock to achieving this purpose and changing society’s view of these healthy and natural options for parenting: mainstream marketing.  So I took a leap of faith, created a website and decided to hit the streets on foot with my logo, B2. I have created a way for myself and others to market breastfeeding. I chose a very simple way to do it as well. I will tell my breastfeeding story at www.babysbreastie.com and create ways to market breastfeeding just like formula is marketed. We will put our stories and our logo everywhere, internationally.
At the same time we have started Boobment: 2013 in order to reach out to teen mothers and teach them about the “crunchier” side of life. We will also reach out to countries that lack resources to uncontaminated water which causes a 90 percent mortality rate of child death under the age of five.Join our cause, because without you there is no B2. You can help by subscribing to our website for updates, submitting your own breastfeeding story, and by following us on Facebook and Twitter.
This guest post was written by Kayla Dar. Kayla is the mother of 3 children, a wife of 5 years. Owned by 3 cats. Incredibly passionate about attachment parenting, breastfeeding, and making her way through society to push for support for mothers who simply do not have it.
Aug 30, 2012Jamie
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