Pablo Picasso - Maternity

Nursing Mia has been a complete joy to me.  I am so happy that she enjoys it too.  I am hopeful that she will continue to nurse into her 3rd year, but we will see what she decides.

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Like Picasso, with a stroke of love on the canvas of my heart and mind, I have painted the memory of my nursing children.  But I wanted something tangible to have of the moment.

So, when Mia was 3 months old I had a photographer take pictures of my 4 children together.  During the session, he took some wonderful shots, among them were several of Mia nursing. 

Nursing Mia

Is she the last child I will ever nurse?  It is difficult to think that I may never nurse another baby after she is done.  I know that one day, too soon, she will be ready to wean.

Until then, I will wake at night to feed her.  I will comfort her at the breast when she is scared or hurt.  I will stop whatever I am doing and be still to nurse her, because I know that time marches on and we can never have those moments back again.

I know that the time will come when I flip through the photo album to gaze at the past, because the present slipped through my fingers so painfully fast.