the weeks following birth are like crossing a desert.
Desert town of monsters:
new sensations since launched the assault in the child's body.
After the heat of the womb, after the mad embrace the birth, the icy solitude of the cradle.
And then comes a beast, hunger, that bites the baby in the womb.
What maddens the unfortunate child is not the cruelty of the wound.
is its novelty.
And the death of the surrounding world that gives the ogre immense proportions.
Calming such anguish?
"Feed the child?
Yes, but only with milk.
have to pick him up.
have to caress, cradle.
and massage.
must speak to the skin of small
should talk to your back that is thirsty and hungry as his stomach.
In countries that have retained the deeper meaning of things women know this yet.
learned from their mothers, taught their daughters the art profound, simple and very old who helps the child to accept the world and brings a smile to life.
Shantala Frederic Leboyer
