Elisa Di Tullio Noemi Grasso
The first time I felt like a mom.
Noemi Grasso, mother of little Pietro, already during her pregnancy believed that breastfeeding was the right way to feed her child. Her choice was influenced by both the mother and the midwives of the pre-birth course. Everything went the right way and breastfeeding, except for some starting difficulties, became a natural continuation of the relationship with her baby, if not the completion of the gestation process.
In fact, Noemi goes so far as to say that "the first time she really felt like a mother was when she breastfeed her son for the first time". In the interview Noemi also talks about the compatibility difficulties that breastfeeding implies for those who work. In her opinion, there is no compatibility if the mother has to go back to work after three months and everyone recommends breastfeeding at least up to the sixth month or even up to the second year of the child's life.
Video table of contents
- Presentation.
- The stories of the mother and the midwives of the pre-birth course: the pushes to breastfeed.
- The first time I breastfeed my baby, the first time I felt like a mother.
- I have never had major difficulties.
- Understanding how much my child needs to eat.
- The breasts have to get used to at first.
- Breastfeeding is a cuddle especially in the heat in winter, less in summer.
- The most positive aspect of breastfeeding: it costs nothing.
- Breastfeeding is incompatible with work.
- The term of breastfeeding depends on the baby.
- Breastfeeding in public places: Men see the nursing woman as a succubus of the child.
- Powdered milk is essential in case of need.
- The state of mind is fundamental.
- The right to breastfeeding in Italy is not sufficiently protected.
- Baliatico.
- The term recommended by the WHO is perhaps excessive for me.
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Volvera
Noemi Grasso
Year: 1996
Languages: Italiano
Document by: Luca Ghiardo
Video by: Davide Porporato
Created: 02-10-2022
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Breastfeeding: forms and practices of humanity
Breastfeeding: forms and practices of humanity
Breastfeeding is unanimously recognized by the main world health authorities as a fundamental health protection in the short, medium and long term for both the baby and the mother, offering biological, nutritional, emotional, relational and economic benefits.
The most important international scientific societies recommend giving the baby only breast milk for the first six months of life and subsequently accompanying the introduction of other foods with breastfeeding at least for the entire first year of the baby's life, but also up to two years and over if mother and child so wish.
This archive contains some testimonies of mothers and midwives aimed at deepening this theme by offering points of view anchored to individual experiences and sensitivities.
