The Plague of Mothers Not Holding Their Babies
The more I am in this work, the more I see an epidemic forming up around us. Mothers, more and more, are not holding their babies. They are making “funny” Instagrams about how annoying and clingy their newborns are. They are buying every gizmo and gadget to avoid holding their baby. We are absolutely accosted with the lie that you should not sleep next to your baby. And who is paying the ultimate price? Truthfully, its everyone.
Mothers who go against their biological design to hold their baby because of programming and modern belief systems may not be able to connect their crippling anxiety and worry to the fact that they refuse to hold their babies, but it is absolutely affecting them. Anytime we go against what our bodies are designed to do, we cannot expect it to not cause some sort of bodily reaction. And the shocking numbers of maternal anxiety and postpartum depression are showing us just that - we are NOT connected anymore. And some people want to blame society and bad e...
