The Benefits of Nursing
This post continues the series on babies in the kingdom. This series started on October 15th.
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Over the last several days, I have sat in amazement as I have already begun to see the benefits take form while my wife nurses our newest child. Many of these natural benefits have spiritual significance, and I want to share just a few.
The first benefit began to take shape immediately after my wife began to nurse. I became concerned as my wife nursed our new son and but instead of smiling, began to grimace. I asked her what was wrong, and her response surprised me. She was having contractions.
As she began to feed the baby, a God created design began to do its work. The moment she began to nurse, a hormone was released that helps speed healing to her body. It helps bring her body more quickly back to its pre-pregnancy shape, and is only caused when nursing begins.
This accelerated healing makes her fit and prepared for pregnancy again that much sooner. Now I can hear some of you saying, “You have FOUR KIDS, don’t you think you should wait before you start thinking about having more?” But wait! Do you see the spiritual correlation? The experience of nursing, prepares you for pregnancy. Sharing the word of God with others, prepares you to bring new souls into the kingdom. Nursing has its benefits.
Another immediate benefit was found the very first diaper we changed. Newborns have the most disgusting diapers, and in my opinion the hardest to clean. A dark, black, tar-like substance is found within them when they are born, but amazingly, nursing releases it from them like nothing else. By devouring the pure milk, they are naturally able to purge the junk that’s been inside them all of their lives. When we share the milk of God’s word, we help new believers to clean out their lives. We help give them the strength and encouragement to purge out those things that have no place in their new life.
One of the greatest benefits that doctors mention when encouraging new mothers to nurse is the benefit to health. I have been amazed with each of our children when Carla would catch a cold or winter flu, only to have the baby never even get a runny nose. The reason is simple, the antibodies that her body creates to fight off the infection in her own body, are passed to the infant so that he is protected by her exposure to the attack.
I have seen the same in even a more powerful way through the spirit. New children of God, protected from a spiritual attack because those who are caring for them have faced that attack before. Sharing their experience through their bible studies, conversations and prayer they build up a hedge of protection to help ward off a spiritual sickness or infirmity.
Lastly, one benefit that every mother knows, and no man fully comprehends, is the benefit of intimacy. There is a special bond that only a mother and infant can share, the bond of giving and receiving. The special bond that is formed while staring into each other’s eyes and allowing the love for each other to grow. It is this bond that integrates a baby into a family, and it is this bond that integrates a new Christian into the family of God.
As a husband and father, I have sat watching as my children have each stared up at their mother, a silent bond forming in that moment. A bond I can never have, and never fully comprehend. This bond that only a mother and infant share in the silence, as they stare into each other’s eyes. “I need you mommy,” the baby’s eyes implore. Mother’s eyes respond in volumes, “I’ll always be here.”
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Over the last several days, I have sat in amazement as I have already begun to see the benefits take form while my wife nurses our newest child. Many of these natural benefits have spiritual significance, and I want to share just a few.
The first benefit began to take shape immediately after my wife began to nurse. I became concerned as my wife nursed our new son and but instead of smiling, began to grimace. I asked her what was wrong, and her response surprised me. She was having contractions.
As she began to feed the baby, a God created design began to do its work. The moment she began to nurse, a hormone was released that helps speed healing to her body. It helps bring her body more quickly back to its pre-pregnancy shape, and is only caused when nursing begins.
This accelerated healing makes her fit and prepared for pregnancy again that much sooner. Now I can hear some of you saying, “You have FOUR KIDS, don’t you think you should wait before you start thinking about having more?” But wait! Do you see the spiritual correlation? The experience of nursing, prepares you for pregnancy. Sharing the word of God with others, prepares you to bring new souls into the kingdom. Nursing has its benefits.
Another immediate benefit was found the very first diaper we changed. Newborns have the most disgusting diapers, and in my opinion the hardest to clean. A dark, black, tar-like substance is found within them when they are born, but amazingly, nursing releases it from them like nothing else. By devouring the pure milk, they are naturally able to purge the junk that’s been inside them all of their lives. When we share the milk of God’s word, we help new believers to clean out their lives. We help give them the strength and encouragement to purge out those things that have no place in their new life.
One of the greatest benefits that doctors mention when encouraging new mothers to nurse is the benefit to health. I have been amazed with each of our children when Carla would catch a cold or winter flu, only to have the baby never even get a runny nose. The reason is simple, the antibodies that her body creates to fight off the infection in her own body, are passed to the infant so that he is protected by her exposure to the attack.
I have seen the same in even a more powerful way through the spirit. New children of God, protected from a spiritual attack because those who are caring for them have faced that attack before. Sharing their experience through their bible studies, conversations and prayer they build up a hedge of protection to help ward off a spiritual sickness or infirmity.
Lastly, one benefit that every mother knows, and no man fully comprehends, is the benefit of intimacy. There is a special bond that only a mother and infant can share, the bond of giving and receiving. The special bond that is formed while staring into each other’s eyes and allowing the love for each other to grow. It is this bond that integrates a baby into a family, and it is this bond that integrates a new Christian into the family of God.
As a husband and father, I have sat watching as my children have each stared up at their mother, a silent bond forming in that moment. A bond I can never have, and never fully comprehend. This bond that only a mother and infant share in the silence, as they stare into each other’s eyes. “I need you mommy,” the baby’s eyes implore. Mother’s eyes respond in volumes, “I’ll always be here.”
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