The concept of mother is undoubtedly one of the richest and most complex of the concepts related to living beings. It can be approached from very different perspectives, both biological and social, individual or group.
The notion of mother is also essential for the idea of survival of a race or group of living beings since it is she who is in charge of ensuring the offspring and she who also lives within her organism the gestation of the new living being to be born in the near future.>
In biological terms, the mother is the living being, female, who has had offspring, who has given birth to another living being after an appropriate gestation time that varies according to the type of living being to which we refer. In this sense, being a mother is something that most living beings of the female sex become when they are fertilized and procreate a new living being. Although for such a wonderful phenomenon to take place the participation of male living beings is also necessary, they are not biologically prepared to conceive and give birth to other living beings, but they do participate actively in fertilization and therefore are a fundamental part at the time that the females of some species become mothers.
A fundamental bond in every aspect, physical, social, affective ...
In social terms, the mother is the first individual that the animal comes into contact with once it is born. Thus, from this, a deep bond is established between mother and child, a bond that can hardly be destroyed (or at least through great pain). The mother then becomes the protector and the person responsible for the care of this new living being, at the same time that this care has to do not only with that specific living being but also with the survival of the entire race. The mother can never stop being a mother once she has given birth.
Let's go to a concrete example in this sense of the role of care and survival that a human mother displays in relation to her newborn child. Once the woman gives birth to her baby, he will need his mother because it is precisely his mother who will provide him with the fundamental food that he demands in his first days and months: breast milk.
The relevance of the food our mother provides us
The breastfeeding process is one of the most important and crucial in the development of the new human life. Breastfeeding, as it is also called, is the best and most complete food that the baby has to grow accordingly, and of course the mother is fundamental in it.
Studies carried out in this regard confirm that if the baby was fed the first three months of his life with his mother's milk, he will have less chance of contracting some complex diseases such as respiratory diseases. And, of course, if breastfeeding continues beyond that time, this health benefit will be greater.
Mothers' milk is nutritious and is the most complete food that the baby can receive, it contains more than 400 hyper-nutritive substances, including hormones and components that prevent diseases, as we have already pointed out, and that are not found in milk. artificial that are marketed.
And on the other hand, we cannot ignore the close, endearing bond of pure love that allows breastfeeding with the baby, because it will also be nourished by all the love of its mother. That direct contact with the skin, with the smell of mother and the security that the child feels in those arms is incomparable and will undoubtedly have super positive effects on the child.
Finally, in individual terms, it is important to point out that the experiences that a mother experiences are indescribable and unique. Each mother experiences such a situation differently, but it is understandable that no other social bond can matter more to a mother than the one that is established from one moment to the next with her child, a product of her own body. This unique situation in the life of a living being can undoubtedly have changing effects but it is always an event of profound change, emotion and new sensations for any living being that experiences it.
