Mom Support

This is an essential part of nurturing❤️

Nobody really prepares you for this part…

In the early months, your baby doesn’t see you as separate from them yet.
Your voice, your smell, your heartbeat, your warmth… it all registers as one shared safe place.

Not in a clingy way. Not in a “they’re too attached” way.
In a biological, brain still wiring itself kind of way.

Their little brain is still figuring out where they end and the world begins.
So when you step away… even for a minute… it can feel bigger to them than it does to us.

It’s not manipulation.
It’s not “spoiling” them.
It’s their nervous system saying, “Where did my safety go?”

And every time you respond… every time you pick them up, comfort them, come back…
you’re literally helping build the part of their brain that will one day let them feel secure without you.

That independence everyone talks about?
It doesn’t come from distance.
It comes from being deeply, consistently, safely connected first.

This is an important fact.

Breastfeeding past one isn’t actually as rare as you might think, it’s just become so sexualised in Western culture.

Globally, around 70% of babies are still breastfeeding at 12 months.
At two years old, nearly half of children worldwide are still nursing.

In many parts of the world, extended breastfeeding isn’t unusual.
It’s expected.

So if you’re still feeding past one and feel like you’re the only one… you’re not.

What feels “long” in some Western countries is completely normal globally.

Your milk didn’t suddenly lose its value at 12 months.
Your body didn’t become inappropriate.
Your child didn’t become “too old.”

Zoom out.

You’re not outside the norm — even if it feels like it.
You’re part of the global majority.

Millions of mamas right now are still breastfeeding their toddlers, and we are all doing our best.

If you’re still breastfeeding past one, you’re not alone 🥰

Did you know this was the global norm?