The Longest Shortest Time

How Were You Fed?

Here’s what I knew about myself as a newborn before I became a mom: I weighed four-and-a-half pounds (though I wasn’t a preemie); my parents took me from the hospital against doctors’ orders, before I had gained the required amount of weight to leave; and I had shockingly orange hair (I come from two brunettes). But if you’d asked me a year ago whether I was breastfed or bottle fed I wouldn’t have known the answer. My mom’s been listening to the breastfeeding episodes I’ve been doing and it prompted her to tell me about her nightmarish attempt to breastfeed me, and the prehistoric pump that went with it. I got her to sit down and tell me the story of my birth and her longest shortest time with me, and you’ll get to hear that interview in our next podcast episode. But it got me thinking: how many of us know where our first meals came from? Do you? Do you care?