None other than the great Abraham Maslow first identified women who find it easy to breastfeed and women who cease their attempts quickly recognizing stress, anxiety, or an inability to meet their infant's food demands, raise children who are psychologically secure in their relationships with others.
Women who have a difficult time breastfeeding, but preserve in the face of anxiety, stress, and perhaps insufficient food supplies raise babies with an inhibited sense of security.
If you are a mother who finds it easy to breastfeed wonderful, if you are a breastfeeding challenged mother know your infant may model her world as anxiety filled, replicating her earliest experiences. If you sense your child is not satiated, she may link hunger to an unsatisfiable need. Obesity may be linked not to a lack of breastfeeding, but a linking for infants between the hunger cue and an inability to be satisfied.
Liquid gold and emerging psychological patterns are not unrelated. Thus each mother must enjoy reflecting on her own experience of breastfeeding and choose both physical and psychological health for her baby.
The United States Breastfeeding Committee does not have an American Psychological Association advisor on the board. The psychological perspective of breastfeeding attempts is not represented in the most powerful breastfeeding advocacy group in the US.
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