Comments | e_compass_rosa: Breast Tissue

e_compass_rosa

Breast Tissue

Jan 28, 2008 15:45

My breasts were one of the first ways in which my visions of motherhood didn’t match up with reality. They represent the first time I let my kids down. Of course, I didn’t really let them down -- they were infants, they grew and thrived, and everything was fine. But my breasts are symbolic of my first big parenting disappointment ( Read more... )

mama-hood, body

Comments 7

megalopoet January 29 2008, 00:08:24 UTC

The Good Mother only matters in the end, not the beginning. you're exquisite, in very way. i just know. give everything else: liquid disintegrates, evaporates, in the end. count on tantamount. measure in result.

e_compass_rosa January 29 2008, 21:12:57 UTC

Thank you. Don't think I've ever been called exquisite before and I gotta say it feels good today. I am currently showering you with virtual love.

lahermite January 29 2008, 01:16:12 UTC

beautiful post. thank you for sharing. i'm still in my bunk. ;D

e_compass_rosa January 29 2008, 21:13:33 UTC

Hopefully you're not still there 24 hours later... But thank you!

lahermite January 29 2008, 21:31:26 UTC

it's a hot boob. kept me occupied.

:D

shimmerdance January 29 2008, 17:20:17 UTC

So many of my friends had similar nursing experiences, and similarly complex emotional responses because of it. It makes me want to strangle every naive little La Leche league hippie who says, "every woman can breastfeed." I'm a total proponent, BUT, imposing an expectation like that on women is just not fair. When will we ever, as a society, allow women actual choice and the freedom to just BE?

Breasts in general... so complicated. Nurturing, motherhood; sexuality, otherhood. The fear that mine will turn on me and kill me, after having nourished 3 children and given me so much sexual pleasure...

and don't even get me started on how we can be arrested for showing something as controversial as our NIPPLES.

I think I am going to take off my shirt and go stand in front of a mirror.

e_compass_rosa January 29 2008, 21:16:53 UTC

Breasts are SO complicated, but so wonderful. I'd be bummed if I didn't have them (or needless to say if I lost one). Mine need some more appreciation in general, so maybe I'll go stand in front of a mirror as well. 'Cept I'm at work. But now I've got pictures! Yay!