What does the Holy Bible says aboutthe real way of Nursing Mothers

A few years ago it was "out of fashion" for mothers to nurse their babies. The Nestle Company was severely chastised in the American natural health press for selling an infant formula in Africa that lacked necessary nutrients. Thousands of malnourished babies with permanent brain damage resulted. We never saw the Nestle Company recant. With problems of clean water and sanitation in Third World countries, the last thing they need is to bottle-feed their babies. What the Almighty created to be a natural process, and which almost every woman is physically able to do, some reject as an "old fashioned" custom. The Bible stands forever. Nursing is the Bible way. Scientifically, it is the superior method.
I Thessalonians 2:7 (NKJV), "But we were gentle among you, just as a nursing mother cherishes her own children." (See also verse 11.)
Moses complained to Yahweh for all he had to put up with, leading the children of Israel out of Egypt. "Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the suckling child, unto the land . . . ," Numbers 11:12. Jacob blessed Joseph with "blessings of the breasts, and of the womb," Genesis 49:25. Of the Messiah, David prophesied, "But thou art He that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope [margin: keptest me in safety] when I was upon my mothers breasts. I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mothers belly," Psalm 22:9-10.
Ephraims punishment is "a miscarrying womb and dry breasts," Hosea 9:14. The Eternal can teach knowledge to those weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts, Isaiah 28:9-11. God will never forsake His own, Isaiah 49:15, "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." To those that flee during the Great Tribulation, " . . . woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!" Matthew 24:19, Luke 23:29.
To Jesus, " . . . a certain woman of the company . . . said unto Him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But He said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it," Luke 11:27-28. Psalm 8:2 (cited by Christ in Matthew 21:16) reminds us that "out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength."

As Shirley was nursing Amanda, there was certainly the feeling of strength and security in our lives. Nursing is beneficial to mother and baby. It is a wonderful thing the Almighty has created. A far cry from artificial methods. As Amanda was safe and secure in her mothers arms, so we should be reminded that we are even more safe in the Eternals bosom.

CONCLUSION

As we watched our little bundle of joy wiggle and coo, we wouldnt trade what we went through for anything in the world. Sure it was labor. And it continues to be labor as we care for and raise the new baby. But, this is as it should be.
"Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which He hath given thee . . . for that is thy portion in this life, and in the labor which thou takest under the sun," Ecclesiastes 9:9.
We encourage couples to have their children as naturally as possible, without drugs, medications and other unnatural methods. The mother should nurse the baby if at all possible. Prepare for the birth of your child, and for the many years thereafter of rearing them with love and discipline in the Eternals ways. Take the awesome responsibility to train up a child in the way he should go, so even when he is old he will not depart from it.