Nursing establishes the first reciprocal bond a child knows

Evidence

I remember my babies at the breast, the first feeding, the long deep suck that drew up from my innermost well, which was filled and filled again, by the look that passed between us, the reciprocity of mother and child. I suppose I should welcome the freedom from all that feeding and worrying, but I’ll miss it. Maybe not the laundry, but the immediacy of those looks, the presence of our reciprocal love is hard to say good-bye to. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 335

Categorization

• XREF: Reads directly against the ecofeminist caretaking thread in the polyad: the female body as the original self-filling well. — connects to: Infant attachment to caregivers forms the foundation for later self-concept and identity development. — Forming Attachments; Attachment to a caregiver is an evolutionary survival necessity for human infants — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 107

Broader Connections

• Attachment to a caregiver is an evolutionary survival necessity for human infants #expands (0.75) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 107