The Joy of Reproduction

[botias]

Nursing an infant and cradling it close brings feelings of contentment and well-being that I can reach no other way. That's not true. These feelings, they're practically post-coital. Coincidence? I think not. I engage in reproductive behavior and I am stroked. Keep up the good work!

I often run my cheek over their baby fuzz and breath in their baby smell. Who knows what many orders of adoration are concealed within this delightful stuff. My baby! My precious, my sweet pea, my little love. But only for a couple of years. So I gather them close often, and write sappy posts on my LJ.

Comments

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Such a sweet time. Speaking as a woman who breastfeed her baby for 4 1/2 years, you may have more time than you think!

[botias.livejournal.com]

We'll see, so far I've weaned the first 2 shortly after 2 years, both because my subsequent pregnancies made it uncomfortable and because the nursing hormones ebbed, perhaps also because of early pregnancy, such that I rather suddenly no longer had the desire. Funny how hormones can drive complex behaviors like nursing and sex.

[timeofchange.livejournal.com]

Ah. For some reason I thought this one was your first, but you are an old hand at this! *g* Lucky you, getting to have more than one. I love what I have now with my son, but I do wish that I could have had one more go at babyhood and toddler time.

[botias.livejournal.com]

I really am lucky, but it's irksome, you just start to feel like you've got it figured out by the 3rd one and then your skills become redundant. As it was, number 3 was a surprise... By the time I'm a grandma, I'll probably have forgotten most of it. :)