“It doesn’t take a village to raise a child, it takes a village to support a mother” 🕊

A longer listen but well worth it 🤍

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sarah_wildmothering

2024-05-02 16:50:47

deal would be that you wear your baby and you carry your baby with you and your baby goes with you know the babies and other parts of the world don't cry like babies in the west do because we have this very strange and perverse idea that babies should be separate than us at a very young age whereas another cultures they understand that infants that are just out of your body
are meant to be physically skin to skin close to you because that forms attachment security
it doesn't mean every single minute because the other thing that we don't do in this country is we don't raise our children and extended family situations like other parts of the world so this weird kind of ethos of individualism and isolation and self-sufficiency this idea that we're all meant to live independently of one another actually no because independence is not the goal it's interdependence and that means that we never raise children nice relation we always raise children with grandmothers and aunts and store neighbors who are called aunt and who's an alternative attachment figure
who can entertain the baby and hold the babies but when the baby is in distress baby is handed right back to the mother
it is also important for mothers to have breaks to be able to just not be within their sphere of the baby for a few minutes think about closeness and and separation in space as a dance and with a newborn baby i would say there's more closeness than speed