Where did the time go???

Well, there goes my intention to update the blog at least every couple of weeks! Cian's now FAR bigger, and I can't believe he's going to be a year old next month. I seem to have had no time to myself in...well, forever, so I'm sorry this blog got left behind.

Suffice it to say that I will update with all the news whenever I have a moment - I'm hoping to do so this weekend. We're all well, Cian's wonderful, but he's currently getting some of his molar teeth and is in a bit of a mood. Understandable really, when you consider how much adult wisdom teeth can hurt.

I was recently published on a few websites, after I penned a quick poem about Western society's hypocritical attitude towards breasts and breastfeeding. I figured that I may as well pop it in here too, so I don't forget it!

OBSCENE

A mother holds her firstborn child
So tiny, warm and small
Deserving of the best in life
So Mother gives her all

Eschewing any second best
And relegating self
Ignoring stares and whispered spite
To bring her babe good health

Courting disapproval
From a blind society
For breasts not making money
As a sex commodity

She gazes into baby's eyes
So trusting and so new
While girls walk on by, barely dressed
Accepted in full view



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Yes, that's my beautiful baby son at about 3 months old or so, I think. I love this photograph because he looks so contented and cute!

How much LESS obscene can you get, than the sight of an innocent baby eating his lunch the way Nature intended? Nothing to be ashamed of, everything to go "awww" at... However, women are harrassed every day for this, told to cover up, go elsewhere or even just stay home. At the same time, scantily-clad women are used to sell cars, chocolate or themselves (think Hooters et al), and nobody blinks an eye at half-dressed women and men walking down the street or dancing in clubs. Context is all. The world would be a better place for everyone if public nursing was celebrated rather than denigrated.