Trillium HomeBirthing Services, Jennifer Williams, CPM, CDEM

10/21/2023

Hi friends! Although our back-up arrangement has changed, I am still here, catching babies and available to serve you!

02/01/2023

01/31/2023

Here are 5⃣ facts about breastfeeding:
-Your body is ready to feed from the moment your 👶 is born
-🤱 lowers stress & anxiety
-🤱 sets up a 👶's healthy immune system for life
-Breast milk helps 👶 to fight infections
-The more you 🤱 in the early days, the faster your body will make more milk

12/27/2022

HOLIDAY HOURS! The next two Sundays are Christmas Day and New Year's Day and there will be no Milk Matters meetings those days. Instead, we will hold our virtual group meetings on Friday, 12/23 and Friday, 12/30, 6-8pm. Send us a Facebook message or an email (milkmattersbloomington@gmail.com) for meeting links. Happy Holidays!

12/23/2022

We offer free, expert, non-judgmental support through Virtual Milk Matters every Sunday, 1pm-3pm on Zoom. Come get your infant feeding questions answered by IBCLCs and see some friendly faces in this group setting. Zoom shy? No need to activate video or audio! Feel free to just listen in or communicate via chat. Send an email to milkmattersbloomington@gmail.com or send a Facebook message to receive a new link each week. We can't wait to see you!

Milk Matters does not offer phone or in-person support. If you need to talk with someone about a question or concern, please contact our highly-qualified local La Leche League leaders or a lactation consultant at IU Health Bloomington Hospital. If you have concerns about your health or the health of your baby, please contact your medical care providers.

La Leche League of Bloomington Indiana; phone support and virtual meetings twice a month. Our local leaders: Lera: 812-332-7647 or MaryAnn 812-334-8494; land lines, no texting. Contact maryann.lll.btown @ gmail.com or La Leche League of Bloomington Indiana for support or meeting links.

IUHB Lactation Services: 812-918-3737.

iU Health Bloomington Outpatient Obstetrics services offers in-person 90 minute consultations with an IBCLC. Call them directly at 812-918-4743 to schedule an appointment.

12/07/2022

The other day I asked my audience what they wished they’d known before having a baby.
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An overwhelming majority of the responses went something like…
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“‘I wish I knew contact naps were ok.”
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“I wish I knew I didn’t have to sleep train.”
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“I wish I knew how much I’d miss sleeping with my baby.”
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“I wish I knew I didn’t have to push them to sleep alone so early.”
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“I wish I knew stressing about sleep would steal so much of my joy.”
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Why are parents getting the message that supporting and holding babies, cosleeping etc are not ok even before they are born? And yet these things are totally normalized and on every baby registry:
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A Snoo
Swaddles
Rockers
Swings
Bouncers
Pacifiers
Loungers
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A note that I’m not saying anything is inherently wrong with the items on this list. But why are those things OK for soothing a baby but WE aren’t? This is backwards. And it’s a scam meant to avoid the baby becoming too dependent on the mother.
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Have you been judged for holding your baby too much even though other baby “soothing” items are totally accepted?

12/07/2022

You are not a milk factory. As you feed, your child's heart rate slows, their attachment hormones spike, their microbiome is nourished and their brain falls into a deep, restorative calm, much like adult brains do during meditation.⁠
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Suckling causes oxytocin release in both mother and child, promoting a felt sense of wellbeing, safety, love and contentment. ⁠
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Oxytocin lowers blood pressure and stress reactivity in mothers. In infants, oxytocin increases resilience to stress and drives the formation of more oxytocin receptors in the amygdala (for healthy social behaviour and a lowered risk for anxiety). ⁠
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Simultaneous oxytocin release, repeated over time, changes both mother and infant brains, in ways that underpin long term attachment and synchronicity. It literally rewires brains in favour of love and wellbeing.⁠
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You are not a milk factory.⁠ You are a retreat, a safe space, a perfect tonic.⁠
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You are laying the foundations of long term wellbeing with every feed. ⁠
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You are a hero.⁠

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12/07/2022

12/05/2022

*though if feeds are very frequent all the time, it can be worth checking they're as effective as they need to be.

11/17/2022

Babies that aren't sucking well are having a problem. It might be that the way they're latching isn't triggering the suck reflex, or it may be that they're not getting the flow of milk needed to keep them actively feeding.
If someone tells you your baby is just lazy, it shows that they're not experienced in bf support, try working with someone else x