MIRACULOUS BREAST MILK

Assalamualaikum, good morning good people.. 

Starting the weekend, why not start with something useful? Hehehee, I do hope everyone who happens to have dropped by here a happy day and a healthy body.

Two things we are always granted with yet rarely feel grateful for are health and happiness. Human beings can really be selfish, can't they?

I have been thinking about posting something about breast milk for so long, but didn't really know how I would start it off with. Maybe, I'll just try to be as honest as possible, that may be acceptable :)

The truth is that before I delivered my daughter, i had read loads of websites and forums on mother's milk and how it would be better compared to formula milk.

Three first days after she was born, it was painful. There were times when i felt like I had enough of it but that's it. There were times when I had to look for a nursing room in a mall because Kei was insisting on being fed. There were times when I didn't feel like pumping and keeping stock in the fridge because of the tiring and time consuming breast milk management. Still, I survive. :) Whatever it is as long as it is for her, I will try to do my best.

Kei is currently still breastfeeding, but only before her bedtime. Other than that, I always try to give her as much formula / fresh milk as possible. 

Honestly, some of my female relatives aren't like me; I mean, they have been giving their child/children formula milk even since they were born. Many reasons for doing so and I was only a little bothered by the excuses. However, I have seen that their children are as healthy as my child is. But in terms of their frequency of being sick or catching cold/cough, my child is better. Kei doesn't get sick very often compared to her cousins. And the reason that formula milk contains a lot of fat makes her cousins even the ones younger than her normally are bigger than her. Kei used to be addicted to breast milk, whenever she was given the option of choosing one she would always prefer me :)

I believe that becoming a mother (for every woman) is natural, and the phases following it are also as natural as they can be. When God prepares you to be a mother I am sure that He also prepares us either emotionally and physically. One of which is the ability of our body to produce milk; and that whatever it is that comes from the Creator is far much better that what human beings can produce.

Allah states information related to it in Surah Al-Luqman (31:14)

وَوَصَّيْنَا الْإِنسَانَ بِوَالِدَيْهِ حَمَلَتْهُ أُمُّهُ وَهْنًا عَلَىٰ وَهْنٍ وَفِصَالُهُ فِي عَامَيْنِ أَنِ اشْكُرْ لِي وَلِوَالِدَيْكَ إِلَيَّ الْمَصِيرُ

(Wawassayna alinsana biwalidayhi hamalathu ommuhu wahnan AAala wahnin wafisaluhu fee AAamayni ani oshkur lee waliwalidayka ilayya almaseeru) 

"And We recommended/commanded the human with his parents, his mother carried/conceived/was pregnant (with) him weakness/feebleness on weakness/feebleness, and his weaning/separation in two years, that thank/be grateful to Me and to your parents, to Me (is) the end/destination."

Whatever it is, every mother has the right to choose what's best for their children, moms have really good maternal instincts. 

Tmelania