Effath decodes the know-how of how the baby feels connected when his outside world is kept as a continuity of the inside
So when we start to kind of project the same sense of fluidity, the same sense of stillness, the same sense of connection, and the negotiation that’s happening between the mother and baby, which is so autonomous in itself, which is not interfered with by outside. How do we recreate that sense of autonomy when the babies outside of the womb?
If we have to really look at this aspect of the continuum, we need to look at what are those things that are taken care of in the womb, which is 24 hours of constant nutrition, which is attached through the placenta and umbilical cord, which is kind of just a supply line, that’s giving the baby the nutrition. And also the baby is swallowing the amniotic fluid constantly.
So there is this process of intake and an outtake that’s constantly happening there. Now, the same thing that needs to be replicated outside without any interference. So what can we do about it? What we can kind of recreate is that the same attachment in the body at the level of the body, which is the habitat mother’s body is the habitat for the baby.
And that means that the birth should continuously allow that process of nutrition and connection and negotiation to continue from the womb to the attachment at the breast.
