It has been a great week at Nourish Breastfeeding Support with visits to several moms and babies all while enjoying several holiday celebrations. My favorite comment from a new mom this week was, “I feel like I have a village.” It is my hope that all of my clients feel like I am one part […]
100 Words: Chapter 11
We’ve been busily preparing for the Christmas season in our home. There are still presents to wrap, cookies to bake, holiday movies to be watched, and family to welcome. I’m always drawn towards Mary during this time. I can’t imagine what it would have been like for a young girl, pregnant in circumstances that weren’t […]
Little Boys
My youngest child, who we like to call Mr. T, is creeping up on the age of 7. He has been a surprise to me from the moment I gagged on my toothbrush, causing me to think, “Could I be pregnant?” Born just 14 months after his brother, his life has been a study in […]
100 Words: Chapter 10
We’ve made it to Chapter 10 in our journey and we have enough stories for at least 10 more. I’m still accepting your stories. I’ve heard over and over again, as I’ve posted these, that moms have found camaraderie, found hope, and found encouragement. If you would like to submit a story about your […]
100 Words: Chapter 9
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about expectation. I awake every day with certain expectations: how my time will be used, how I will meet the needs of those around me, how I will find a way to feed myself in the midst of all of this. Very often, my expectations don’t match up with […]
100 Words: Chapter 8
A few stories about “what the books don’t tell you”. I’m a firm believer (and honestly, that belief is the whole motivation for this project) that we don’t typically tell the whole story about breastfeeding. In the media and our culture, we’ve gotten wrapped up in either the breastfeeding story that tells you it is […]
100 Words: Chapter 7
It’s time for some more stories. Important stories. Hard stories. From Heather, also know as the blogger “Baby Slime”: First child: Bad latch. Blisters. Blood. Tears. Nipple shield. Healing herbs. Infection. Mastitis – 12 times. Hospital. Antibiotics. Thrush. Abscess; massive. Surgery. Low supply, no supply. Weight loss. “Periareolar surgery should not have been done on a […]
Paradox
If there is one thing that I seek to communicate in my work with breastfeeding mothers, it is that their bodies are intended for this job…that it is a process that should happen regardless of what culture, guilt, pressure or even their mother-in-laws tell them. That their body will do this thing regardless of what […]
100 Words: Chapter 6
I’ve long been a fan of memoirs…my favorite genre by far. Mostly because the little glimpses of someone’s life help me to understand the whole. Sometimes when I look at the “glimpses” without their contexts as a whole, I don’t understand, because the experience is so unlike mine. But taken together, as I hope you […]
100 Words: Chapter 5
Last night, I stole away from home for a bit to see a movie. We’ve been away on vacation for quite some time and I was due for a little “reconnect” time with my beloved friends. We saw “The Help”. We had all read the book and frankly, I was quite concerned about how the […]
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