Nurture Nourish

20/12/2021

This is such an important message.

I really wish that all new mothers were told that the majority of newborns want to breastfeed much more frequently than every few hours. And many even want to stay latched on, suckling for extended periods of time. This can understandably shake a new mother’s confidence and make her second guess if she’s producing enough milk to keep her nursling satisfied. Women are usually just told that their baby should nurse ‘every 2-3 hours’, but frequent (and lengthy) nursing is a totally normal thing for newborns to do! It helps keep them close to mama while regulating her milk supply.
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Often babies won’t have these longer stretches between feeds until they’re a little older. Even then, there are several things that could make them want to nurse more, including (but not limited to) teething, sickness, unfamiliar surroundings, or feeling tired. I can’t imagine how miserable it would be to have a fussy baby in your arms but feel like you shouldn’t breastfeed again because it’s “not time yet”.
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This isn’t discussed often enough and new mothers need to be reassured. If baby is gaining weight, then there’s absolutely nothing wrong with breastfeeding more often than what you’ve been told is ‘normal’. The postpartum period is all about surrendering, so cozy up with your babe and forget the clock.

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28/11/2021

18/11/2021

I love this 💛

We needed this today. 💜 (via )

16/11/2021

Along with countless other working parents and caregivers, we are living in a perpetual state of burnout. This is what happens when our entire villages, our communities, are ripped out from under us. We are on our own. And we have been on our own as we are coming up on one year of this pandemic.

08/11/2021

Anyone else feel this?

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01/11/2021

Motherly's 2021 State of Motherhood survey found that 93% of moms are burned out. And 92% of moms said that our society does not do a good job of supporting mothers. Self-care will not fix mom burn out. We need real solutions now.

16/10/2021

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For many it's hard to imagine such a devastating loss, but in Canada each year 1,600 infants die in their first year of life and more than 3,000 babies are stillborn. It's estimated that up to 1 in 4 pregnancies lead to miscarriages. Yet infant and pregnancy loss is still seldom talked about. Oct. 15 marks National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day - please share and help break the silence http://www.october15.ca/

12/10/2021

Can anyone else relate?

I'm the parent who is always on and sometimes it's exhausting. I'm not perfect but I'm trying so hard to raise these kids well.

07/10/2021

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A year-old Facebook post from Pregnant Chicken is recirculating again this week, featuring a photo from the midwives at the Royal Oldham Hospital in Lancashire, England. The midwives carved Jack-o-Lanterns with a twist, using round pumpkin mouths to show how much a mama dilates during birth. When yo...

05/10/2021

"It's a heady cocktail of anticipation, expectation, arrival and survival. It's stripping yourself back to a primal state and nakedly navigating blocked milk ducts, torn stitches, bloody sheets, broken minds, manically Googling blackout blinds," the mother continues. "You are needed. Every second you are needed—if not in person, in mind. It is a job. Without sick days. Without fair remuneration. It is the most privileged position in the world but it takes balls, guts (often with no glory), b***s and any other extremity you can put to work."

Think back to when you first welcomed your baby. Do you remember how you felt? How exhausted, how dazed, how vulnerable you were in those early days? If you've been through it, you know that the last thing a new parent needs is to feel shamed...especially a new parent who is still at the hospital.Un...

27/09/2021

22/09/2021

Birth Trauma is more common than you think. If you (or a friend) experienced a traumatic birth experience we have a free talk / workshop coming up this weekend for you:

Birth Trauma: Learn Effective Tools to Help you on your Healing Journey

Kristi Field, who has over 8 years of experience working with individuals and families with trauma, mental health and addiction, will be joining us for this talk on Sunday, September 26 @ 1 pm - 1:30 pm, PDT.

SIGN UP HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpdOCqrTkiGd0NkVGmtfrzIsSv5tgRj9gF

Kristi will share effective tools you can use to release birth trauma in this free workshop, it's truly not to be missed! (Kristi is also VERY CLOSE to giving birth to her second son, so this might be our last chance to get her in for a free talk before she gets too busy with her boys).

As a yoga teacher, I've learned all about how trauma lives in the body. The body stores trauma in different areas and that is why movement can help (and why yoga helps postpartum women).

I am excited to see what we can all learn from Kristi on Sunday!

19/09/2021

The postpartum mother is recovering and trying to settle in with a new baby. Admire the infant, but please nurture and see the new mom too.

14/09/2021

It's not just postpartum depression - what are PMADs?

P ➡️ stands for , meaning occurring during pregnancy to 1 year postpartum.

M ➡️ stands for Mood, meaning depression, bipolar disorder, or psychosis.

A ➡️ stands for Anxiety, meaning general anxiety, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, or post traumatic stress disorder.

D ➡️ stands for Disorder, meaning it interferes with your functioning and day-to-day life.

Need help? Call or text "Help" to 800-944-4773 💙

Help us support parents with PMAD. To donate ➡️ text PMAD to 707070. ❤️

06/09/2021

18/08/2021

Sleep is important! I can help 😁

Women report less sleep than men—and moms report *way* less sleep.

03/06/2021

"If I could go back I would tell her... That one day she’ll look back once the fog has cleared and realise those days were filled with magic. The type of magic you only see long after the trick. The beauty and then the bittersweet.

I’d tell her that the memories she’ll lose herself in won’t just be the milestones, but those long nights. She will never forget the pain of fatigue, but nostalgia will colour her memory and she’ll find herself aching to breathe in those cuddles again.

I’d tell her about the tears, that with each cry she is learning.
I’ll tell her I’m not just talking about her baby.

I’d tell her she’ll have alone time again, but it will feel like two hearts wandering in different directions. She’ll ask if it will always feel like that. I’ll tell her I don’t know yet.

I’d tell her that her eyes will close, the sun will rise, but in between those moments, she’ll feel so alone in the company of the stars. I’ll tell her each of those stars is another mother feeling exactly the same way, that she is never alone.

I’d tell her she doesn’t need to be the perfect mother, and the moment she believes there’s such a thing is the moment she believes she is failing.

I’d tell her that she is moving mountains, even when she loses her footing.
Especially, when she loses her footing.

I’d tell her in some ways it gets easier, but for every first, there is a last. The hardest part is not realizing till later that a chapter has closed and you’re turning back the pages trying to pinpoint when you forgot to say goodbye to that mispronounced word.

I’d tell her it isn’t a typical love story, motherhood is the raw unedited version, with all the outtakes, which is what makes it the most beautiful story of all.

I would try to describe the power of the infinite love she will feel, how it will consume her, scare her, comfort her.
That a love like this is a silent language that speaks in volumes.

But only I won’t tell her these things, because she will forget like we all do so that we can discover them for ourselves, as we’re meant to.

I would simply tell her, that she is seen, she is amazing, and she is enough."

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Read more: http://m.mother.ly/eIAjQTK

13/05/2021

A little fun for today 🤣