Empowering Birth Choices

Empowering Birth Choices Registered Nurse, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, HypnoBirthing Educator, Doula Services Maternal and child health is my passion.

Empowering Birth Choices is a small woman owned business. I enjoy supporting and educating families during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding. Seeing my clients advocate for themselves and experience the rewards of an empowered birth is one of my favorite parts of this job. I believe that pregnancy, motherhood and breastfeeding can be beautiful and transformative experiences and I enjoy accompanying women and their families on this journey as a HypnoBirthing educator, a Doula, a Lactation Consultant and perhaps most importantly, as a fellow mother.

Love this!  https://www.facebook.com/434146753447059/photos/a.680184665509932.1073741829.434146753447059/746808262180905...
06/30/2018

Love this!

https://www.facebook.com/434146753447059/photos/a.680184665509932.1073741829.434146753447059/746808262180905/?type=3

This news just in - when you visit breastfed baby, you are likely to see a little bit of breast. 😱

Tips for how to react when confronted with a tiny bit of breast (which you can see because the breast is where the milk is and the milk is what the baby drinks.)🤔

1 - Keep talking to mum as before.

2 - Do not leave the room unless asked, do not ask mum to leave the room.

3 - Tell mum she is doing brilliantly and you are proud of her.

4 - If mum is struggling, get her good face to face support. A bottle is not face to face breastfeeding support.

5 - Bring food. Bring drinks. Make the food. Pour the drinks.💕

6 - If the baby cries, give the baby to mum. Do not attempt to walk around shushing, patting saying it worked for your baby. This baby wants mum.

*Remember - visiting a breastfed baby may result in exposure to breasts, oxytocin, melatonin and all round feel good hormones*

04/10/2018

I just supported Black Maternal Health Week on //

For those of you interested in the breastfeeding literature, enjoy!https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=101...
08/03/2016

For those of you interested in the breastfeeding literature, enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10154219318625325&id=323867490324&substory_index=0

In honor of World Breastfeeding Week 2016 , our peer-reviewed journal, Breastfeeding Medicine, will be available free of charge for our high impact articles through the end of August! Take a look at:

Higher Fat Content in Breastmilk Expressed Manually: A Randomized Trial
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bfm.2015.0058

The Challenge of Breastfeeding the Late Preterm and the Early-Term Infant
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bfm.2016.29007.aie

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Breastfeeding
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bfm.2014.0152

Speaking Out on Safe Sleep: Evidence-Based Infant Sleep Recommendations
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bfm.2014.0113

Lingual Frenotomy for Breastfeeding Difficulties: A Prospective Follow-Up Study
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/bfm.2014.0010

Sharing from the HypnoBirthing Page
06/01/2016

Sharing from the HypnoBirthing Page

05/16/2016

HypnoBirthing class to start in May! Send me a message for more details.

http://kellymom.com/bf/normal/comfortnursing/
04/27/2016

http://kellymom.com/bf/normal/comfortnursing/

Many moms feel guilty for nursing their baby to sleep. Nursing your baby to sleep is not a bad thing to do! It's very normal and developmentally appropriate for babies to nurse to sleep and to wake 1-3 times during the night for the first year or so. Some babies don't do this, but they are the excep…

Interesting, though not surprising.  Regardless of whether breastfed or formula-fed, babies woke the same amount of time...
01/26/2016

Interesting, though not surprising. Regardless of whether breastfed or formula-fed, babies woke the same amount of times. It is a myth that giving nighttime formula will make a baby sleep more.

Were you ever told to give your baby formula at night in order to make her sleep more?

https://www.facebook.com/kellymomdotcom/posts/10154280067735139

New research from Swansea University challenges the idea that babies should be sleeping through the night.

https://www.facebook.com/sakurabloom/photos/a.56036452543.69616.29440947543/10153353545827544/?type=3
01/20/2016

https://www.facebook.com/sakurabloom/photos/a.56036452543.69616.29440947543/10153353545827544/?type=3

"This is what 24 hours postpartum looks like. Baby in sling. Skin to skin. Adult diapers. And a rosy glow. My body feels like it ran a marathon and my heart is wide open from yesterday's travels. Birth opens us like an earthquake opens the earth and I am still in the intimate, fragile throes of that opening. I feel raw. Emotional. Different. I feel like I'm on the undulating surface of the rippling ocean being tossed back and forth between happiness, gratitude, melancholy, and grief. 23 hours ago I held life within and 24 hours ago I surged and transformed allowing life to flow through me, into my waiting hands. The emptiness in my womb brings a heavy feeling crashing into reality but then this new little life whimpers, searching for the breast with soft rooting, and I feel whole again. I am still processing the beautiful transition my whole family has traveled through and I am in complete awe of our strength as humans, women, and mothers. This time is simply unlike any other." -- .moon
Beautiful! .moon we couldn't love this any more 🙌🏼❤️ Congratulations, Mama! ✨

Vitamin D and Breastfeeding, new recommendations...
10/11/2015

Vitamin D and Breastfeeding, new recommendations...

OBJECTIVE: Compare effectiveness of maternal vitamin D3 supplementation with 6400 IU per day alone to maternal and infant supplementation with 400 IU per day.

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