Potato in a Rice Bowl by Peggy Keener

Author:Peggy Keener [Keener, Peggy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781450220422
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2010-05-11T00:00:00+00:00

FIFTY-SEVEN

WHEN JEFF WAS born, I was stupefied over the depth of my love for him; awestruck by the fierceness of its intensity. When I became pregnant with Matt, I couldn’t imagine how I could ever bisect such profound feelings and divvy out portions to two children. I found I didn’t have to. It didn’t work that way. There was as much passion for Matt as there had ever been for Jeff.

With Erin, I truly learned the elasticity and equality of a mother’s heart. It never needs Sanforizing nor does it ever become diluted. No one of my children ever maxed out my love space, and a divided heart simply did not happen. Instead of my becoming one-third of a mom to each child, I became a whole mom in triplicate, for each child received the expansive, exuberant, inexhaustible whole of me.

I know this will sound like a crazy lady talking, but here it is. As with all new mothers, the night feedings, with their repeated interruptions, came just when the mom’s furnace most needed re-stoking. This was necessary to build up the strength she needed to face another day of the clawing needs of a loving, but demanding family. Yet it must be said, those night feedings were the very times I liked best. In the dark of night, when there was nothing else bidding for my attention, I could concentrate all of me on whichever of my three babies I was holding. With only the two of us locked together in our rocking chair capsule, it was complete serenity.

Many years later someone told me about La Leche League. I couldn’t believe it. How ridiculous was that! Like you had to take out membership in a club in order to nurse your baby? If they’d asked me, I would have dropped that Frenchy business and renamed it just what it was … “Tits for Tots!”

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