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08/06/2023

In honor of breastfeeding week, I wanted to reshare this experience of mine! 💖

Let's talk about comfort feeding! 💕
This smiley baby of mine is all happy not because she's full from a feeding, but because she's in the warm arms of mommy and have a comfort feed after her bottle feed.
I feel the majority of first time mamas stress on producing and getting baby fed more than anything, (which is very important) and that's something I focused on so much on too. But to the point where it made me almost go crazy and into a horrible depression and I wish I knew what I know now back with my first. . .
Almost 5 months of breast feeding this one, 3 of those months are just of comfort feeding. Yes Mamas, comfort feedings count! Don't be discouraged if you struggle with supply. I know it's so hard not too be but you are more to your baby than just the lunch lady. I would beat myself up and feel so guilty that I can't exclusively breastfeed. With my first child I only made it 2 months until I stopped cold turkey and switched to formula, not even thinking about the bonding part, just making sure she's fed. Because it never crossed my mind, I was so focused on the feeding and not the initial bonding. No matter how much water I drank, no matter how many different supplements I took, no matter how healthy I ate. I could never make more than 2oz between both breasts. But I began to come to terms with it and let the formula take over.
However, there was something more my baby needed more than just formula. It took my second baby to realize that, and that was comfort.
In other words, I've become my baby's personal pacifier and that's 1000% okay! No difference than a regular pacifier. It also keeps that close contact bonding experience with your baby. Time goes by so fast, so these moments are just as sacred and precious as feeding time. Without our comfort feeds, I'd be going to war during nap and bedtime. She prefers my b**b way more than a pacifier when I put her down to sleep. So b**b it is! And it makes me feel so fulfilled and proud that she still wants me rather than a pacifier. Even if it's not to just eat. Because when she's done with her bottle, she's already pulling down my shirt because she's ready for her food coma nap. So remember even if you aren't producing very much milk, you are producing a warm, safe, sweet smelling and comfortable place for your baby to rest and regulate their emotions. All the while creating a beautiful bonding moment between you two❤️ Breastfeeding and comfort feeding are both equally as important in their own ways. So don't lie to yourself that you aren't doing much for your baby because of your supply, you're giving them a comfortable place and doing a wonderful job whether you make a quarter of an ounce between both breasts or 10 ounces each breast. You're a wonderful mama and your baby sure thinks so too!!!

08/06/2023

Happy world breastfeeding week, Mamas!
🤱🏻🤱🏼🤱🏾🤱🏿💜

07/20/2023

Never underestimate what your beautiful body was created to do❤️

07/04/2023

In this video you will learn about nitrous oxide gas and how it can be used during labor for pain relief. We discuss the research evidence on nitrous oxide during labor and the main pros and cons of this approach to pain management.

07/04/2023

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05/22/2023

Beautiful words we should all take from ❤️

"I lay down at the beach and look down at my body. I see the changes. I see stretch marks on my stomach, I see wrinkles at my breasts. Sometimes the changes can be hard to look at, some days even I feel bad

But then... I looked PAST my body. Do you see the boy running there? That's Liam. The boy I made, the baby that was in MY stomach. The baby that my breast’s magical produced milk for so he could survive on just me.

How amazing is that? Sometimes you have to look at the BIGGER PICTURE, just like in this one. So you can remind your mindset to tell you how incredibly amazing you are, and how proud you should be of it.

We all did an amazing job, marks or not."

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05/20/2023

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I remember the first time I saw a toddler breastfeeding.

I found it weird. Really weird.

It seemed unnatural to me that a child who could walk and talk should STILL need to nurse.

The second time I saw it, it seemed less weird.
And the third, fourth and fifth time I was fine with it.

“Each to their own, but it’s not for me”, I would say.

I swore that I would breastfeed my own child till six months. Maximum.

Anything after that and they should be using bottles. Of expressed milk or formula. Particularly out in public. After all, they get all they need from solid food from six months anyway.

Six months came. And went.

He refused bottles.
I could barely pump a drop.
Breastfeeding in public was not the discreet affair that I had envisaged.....
And he refused milk in any other form other than straight from the tap...
I was stressed and confused and I inadvertently found myself breastfeeding into toddlerhood.

Every assumption that I had ever made;
About him not needing it past six months, and about how he should be taking bottles...
he dispelled my ignorance at every corner.

And he showed me that he DID need it.
I just had to find that out for myself.

And breastfeeding a toddler suddenly didn’t feel weird. It made so much sense.
For us.

When he was unwell he would rely on it.
When he was upset he would rely on it.
And when he was hurting, happy, tired, angry, hungry, thirsty, sad; he would rely on it.

Until one day he was able to check in with his own emotions, and he no longer relied on it.
He developed his own coping mechanisms.

So why is it important to normalise natural term breastfeeding?
Because if this is the first time someone sees it, then the second or third time it will be slightly less weird. And by the fifth time, it would hardly be noticed or commented upon at all.

Because the only thing that is unnatural about natural term breastfeeding, is society’s ASSUMPTION that it is unnatural or weird.
It was my unrealistic expectations that made it unnatural. And it was my lack of understanding that made it weird.

It is one of motherhoods greatest contradictions;
to push the importance of breastfeeding without adequate support, and then push for her and her child to stop before either of them are ready.

And that needs to end.

02/10/2023

Let's talk about comfort feeding! 💕
This smiley baby of mine is all happy not because she's full from a feeding, but because she's in the warm arms of mommy and have a comfort feed after her bottle feed.
I feel the majority of first time mamas stress on producing and getting baby fed more than anything, (which is very important) and that's something I focused on so much on too. But to the point where it made me almost go crazy and into a horrible depression and I wish I knew what I know now back with my first. . .
Almost 5 months of breast feeding this one, 3 of those months are just of comfort feeding. Yes Mamas, comfort feedings count! Don't be discouraged if you struggle with supply. I know it's so hard not too be but you are more to your baby than just the lunch lady. I would beat myself up and feel so guilty that I can't exclusively breastfeed. With my first child I only made it 2 months until I stopped cold turkey and switched to formula, not even thinking about the bonding part, just making sure she's fed. Because it never crossed my mind, I was so focused on the feeding and not the initial bonding. No matter how much water I drank, no matter how many different supplements I took, no matter how healthy I ate. I could never make more than 2oz between both breasts. But I began to come to terms with it and let the formula take over.
However, there was something more my baby needed more than just formula. It took my second baby to realize that, and that was comfort.
In other words, I've become my baby's personal pacifier and that's 1000% okay! No difference than a regular pacifier. It also keeps that close contact bonding experience with your baby. Time goes by so fast, so these moments are just as sacred and precious as feeding time. Without our comfort feeds, I'd be going to war during nap and bedtime. She prefers my b**b way more than a pacifier when I put her down to sleep. So b**b it is! And it makes me feel so fulfilled and proud that she still wants me rather than a pacifier. Even if it's not to just eat. Because when she's done with her bottle, she's already pulling down my shirt because she's ready for her food coma nap. So remember even if you aren't producing very much milk, you are producing a warm, safe, sweet smelling and comfortable place for your baby to rest and regulate their emotions. All the while creating a beautiful bonding moment between you two❤️ Breastfeeding and comfort feeding are both equally as important in their own ways. So don't lie to yourself that you aren't doing much for your baby because of your supply, you're giving them a comfortable place and doing a wonderful job whether you make a quarter of an ounce between both breasts or 10 ounces each breast. You're a wonderful mama and your baby sure thinks so too!!!

01/18/2023

Amazing!!

“I am BLOWN AWAY by the difference a lip and tongue tie revision made on my little one!! She actually has a bottom lip now. 🤪 ⁣
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This is my first baby and I thought it was normal for my baby to have a really hard time latching, and then fall asleep after just a couple minutes. The pediatrician told me “if she’s attempting to nurse, then she doesn’t have a tongue tie.” She didn’t even look in her mouth to check 😳 But my breasts were constantly engorged and in pain and I got no relief when she nursed because she was getting almost nothing out so I was forced to pump every couple hours... ⁣
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After some research, she had every sign of a lip or tongue tie (blanched ni***es, lipstick ni**le, pain while nursing, receding chin, sucking in bottom lip, falling off the ni**le constantly and losing motivation). So I scheduled an appointment with an IBCLC, and sure enough she had a severe tongue and lip tie... I nursed her before the procedure and she only got half an ounce in 10 minutes, then nursed her again after the procedure and she got 2.5 ounces in only FIVE minutes!! I was so proud of her. ⁣
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I’m so glad I listened to my mommy instincts, because now she is nursing like a pro and finally putting on weight!”💕⁣
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