In 2006 The Catalan Federation of Breastfeeding Support Groups convened the 1st Story Contest "Breastfeeding and Parenting" with such success in participation (53 candidates from Spain and other countries) and quality, which decided not only to publish the winner but also the finalists.
The winning story was "She”Written and illustrated by Angel Sauret and published in Spanish and Catalan by Editorial La Galera. In this story and through the eyes of a child worried about finding a name for his little sister about to be born, we attended the birth of the little sister and the early onset of breastfeeding.
And without proposing it to the organizers of the contest, it turns out that this story makes visible and normalizes other important issues for them as physiological and respected birth, the attachment, the co-participation of parenting parenting of the children and breastfeeding during pregnancy.
The following 4 short stories they have been collected together in a single anthological book "The story of the four corners”By Editorial Obstare and have been prologized by the famous pediatrician Carlos González. The editions are bilingual: Spanish / Catalan, Spanish / Galician and Spanish / Basque. The titles are:
"The cat that wanted to make an owl sleep"written by the child sleep expert Rosa Jové with illustrations by Ricard Ferrándiz. Indirect reference is made to breastfeeding but the central issue is sleep or rather the importance of respecting the sleep patterns of each species, all in metaphor key.
“I also”Written by Mª Angels Claramunt (also author of another book where breastfeeding is a star theme“ Little Delights ”) and illustrated by the same person * as the previous one, Ricard Ferrándiz. The common thread is the experience and enjoyment of a girl of complementary foods, although through her story other topics such as breastfeeding, co-participation in child rearing, breastfeeding in public, respect, breastfeeding appear in tandem, and much more.
“I'm a fish”Also * was written by Mª Angels Claramunt but this time illustrated by Sonia Ramón. In it, a girl presents her arguments to justify seeing herself as "a mammalian fish", along the way we attend her birth, in a natural birth in the water, and other issues such as breastfeeding in public and prolonged breastfeeding.
“I'm a kangaroo”Written by Susana Ramírez and illustrated by José Manuel Benlliure. The story begins as the classic story of the girl who will soon have a little brother, but soon new elements appear when the little brother is born prematurely. So from the hand of the girl and with a lot of sense of humor we discover what is the kangaroo mother method for the care of infants born early, the importance of skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding.
* I remember that the contest was anonymous and the same person could present several works.
I have the 2 books courtesy of Fedecata that has given them to the participants of the Breastfeeding Advisors Course, and I attest that they are beautiful.
Thank you for your generosity and for this initiative to present breastfeeding and natural upbringing in stories and in life..
