Elisa Di Tullio Erica Barbierato
The milk bond
Erica Barbierato is a 33-year-old young woman who recently gave birth to her second daughter some four years after her first. She recounts that, although tiring and painful, breastfeeding is a practice she is extremely familiar with, and she has fond memories of it from when she was a child and saw her aunt, her mother's sister, breastfeeding in peace.
Erica emphasises the strength of bonds. The one created with her daughters, breastfeeding, but also the one with her aunt and especially her grandmother, who always supported and comforted her in the practicalities of everyday life. Since she also became a mother, this woman has been at her side and guided her in caring and feeding. The memory moves her, because knowing that she had that warm presence at her side generates emotion and gratitude. As a granddaughter, as a woman and as a mother.
The midwives at the Maggiore hospital in Novara also supported her from the moment she was admitted for her first delivery, the Caesarean one, when the fear of her first maternity still shook her.
The bond that is created between these women is what leads her to say with vigour that breastfeeding is an important, intimate, strong choice, a task for physical and emotional well-being that can only be tackled in a home environment of mutual attention and dedication.
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Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Novara
Erica Barbierato
Document by: Martina Riina, Luca Ghiardo, Davide Porporato
Video by: Martina Riina, Luca Ghiardo, Davide Porporato
Created: 22-06-2023
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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.
