Blissful Babies Lactation LLC

Blissful Babies Lactation LLC Lactation, breastfeeding, and chestfeeding support for familes in the Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas.

07/10/2025

🌿 Hey Portland families! 🌿If you’re pregnant or navigating those early newborn days, I see you. It’s beautiful, wild, and a lot - and you’re not meant to do it alone.I’m a local IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) and Registered Nurse with 17 years of experience, 8 of those in lactation care. I support families from pregnancy through those early feeding journeys, whether that’s breastfeeding, pumping, combo-feeding, or simply figuring out what’s best for you.I bring clinical expertise, deep compassion, and zero pressure to every visit, because you deserve support that’s both professional and personal.If you’re expecting, in the thick of those early days, or just feeling unsure, I’m here for you.I offer in-home and virtual lactation visits, with care that’s gentle, personalized, and grounded in clinical expertise. 💛Feel free to message me with questions or to schedule a visit - I’d love to support you.Thanks for supporting small, heart-led businesses in our beautiful community.

(904) 525-1514
www.blissfulbabieslactation.com

06/07/2025

BREAKING: What does it take to win an ultramarathon? For Stephanie Case, it meant covering 100 kilometers over brutal terrain while stopping three times to breastfeed her 6-month-old daughter.

Yes, you read that right.

At the Ultra-Trail Snowdonia in Wales, Case wasn’t aiming for a podium. After a three-year break from competition, she just wanted to feel like an athlete again. Instead, she crossed the finish line as the first female finisher, clocking 16 hours and 53 minutes on a course with over 6,500 meters of elevation gain.

Her journey to this race wasn’t just physical it was deeply emotional.

After two miscarriages and the birth of her daughter Pepper through IVF, Case wasn’t sure if she could ever call herself an athlete again. She had questions. Doubts. Fears. But she kept moving forward. She began running again in her second trimester and carefully trained to maintain her milk supply while preparing for this demanding race.

Throughout the course, her partner met her at 20K, 50K, and 80K checkpoints so she could breastfeed Pepper a logistical challenge that required special permissions and a lot of heart.

Stephanie Case’s story is one of resilience, strength, and rewriting what motherhood and athleticism can look like.

Her next goal? To return to the Hardrock 100 the same race that once felt like the end of a chapter. Now, it marks the beginning of a bold new one.

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12/19/2024

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10/25/2024

Charity with Four Children - this terracotta sculpture is by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).

'Charity' was often personified in Western art as a woman nurturing several children - here she is shown nursing one child, with three other children playing around her. We note that Bernini himself had 11 children (9 survived) and wonder how much his own family life influenced this piece!



📷 Image credit: Sailko - CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30525035

[Image description: sculpture of a woman nursing an infant; three more children play around her legs. Her nursling has one foot resting against another child].

07/28/2024

🎉 We congratulate Clarisse Agbegnenou, French Judo champion, for her successful advocacy work - athletes at the 2024 Olympics in Paris will be offered hotel rooms they can share with their breastfeeding children close to the 10,000 population athletes' village. 🥋

🧡💙💚 Clarisse said "To put things in perspective, I've decided to breastfeed my daughter until she's weaned. She hasn't yet, so I'm following her. I've made sure that I feel good physically, because of course there's an element of tiredness. But as a mother who needs to be very present for my daughter, I asked for the opportunity to have her with me during the Olympics." 🤱🏻🤱🏽🤱🏿

Image credit 📷 clarisse_agbegnenou on Instagram, from October 2022.
[Image description: smiling mother wearing judo kit sits on a bench in a sports hall breastfeeding her baby. She smiles broadly at the camera.]

Hi Mom! I’m going to make you late to your lactation consultation today because I somehow found mud in the yard, and in ...
07/20/2024

Hi Mom! I’m going to make you late to your lactation consultation today because I somehow found mud in the yard, and in true Golden Retriever fashion, I just had to play in it!!

06/28/2024

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06/19/2024

Seriously, no you don't need to be always 'in the moment' when your baby is feeding. And let's face it, they've often got their eyes closed 🤷‍♀️

05/31/2024

The newborn need to be held constantly, near 100% of the time- Awake and asleep -Is shocking for most parents.

When babies continue to need this for the first 3-6+ months, parents continue to be surprised.

And when infants continue to need closeness, daytime and nighttime, up to age 3 (and beyond) it is also unexpected.

Parents will say - “our newborn is doing great BUT there is a problem that we can’t put her / him down” or “Our baby is doing great BUT they need someone with them to sleep” or “Our toddler is doing amazing BUT they still need us”

I always say “This is not surprising to me at all because nearly every baby has this need.”

We need to support parents to expect this from their newborns and babies and teach them how to enjoy this season of their babies life.

Humans are a carrying species. Babies expect this care and when they get it, they grow their brains to health. So do parents.

When parents don’t expect this, and expect that their baby can be put down it is very stressful. They constantly fight against this biological need, buying endless products, and trying endless strategies to make it happen. This sends babies and parents into stress states - exactly what we don’t want. This does not benefit the developing baby brain or parent brain.

When parents do expect babies to need constant holding they can prepare to use baby carriers, set up safe sleeping environments, ask family or hire people to take part in holding the baby. Set up their day to bathe in the safety states they create when they hold their baby with presence.
This is how the developing baby brain and parent brain grow long lasting wellness. 🧠💜🧠

Learn more in my workshop tomorrow! This is your last chance to join!

Comment BRAIN and I’ll send the info you need 🪷🪷🪷

02/17/2024

Most new parents do not know let alone comprehend that their baby is likely to need nurturing at night for the first few YEARS of their life.
They do not know.
They are not prepared.
And after a couple of generations of parenting advice coming from a low-nurture behaviourist lens, many who support families don’t seem to know either.

A baby who wakes at night and needs feeding or soothing to get back to sleep does NOT have a sleep problem.
They have not developed negative, dependent sleep associations.
They do not need to have feeding separated from sleep and they do NOT need to be trained to stop signalling (no, they’re not self-soothing, they don’t actually have the brain development for that kind of self regulation yet).

Because parents don’t know and neither do a lot of support professionals, we see a ridiculously large number of families experiencing sleep crisis’s…
And then the incredibly expensive, cost inefficient interventions kick in via early parenting centres with their extensive wait lists.

Why. Can. No. One. Seem. To. See. The. Real. Problem. Here?????
And it ain’t the baby’s sleep at fault.

Parents (and the professionals who support them) need to KNOW that they will needed by their baby day and night throughout their infancy so they can actually set themselves up for this marathon and not the short-term sprint most envisage.

We can and should do better by families and we at Little Sparklers are doing all we can to shift the focus to real solutions not expensive bandaids 🩹 ✨

🖊️Carly
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02/11/2024

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01/31/2024

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Always amazed when some mamas are able to feed on demand from both breasts and sustain more than one child at a time. If that's you, hang in there, this time goes by so quickly, and you can do it!!🙌🏿
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I knew JJ wasn't ready to wean, he nursed throughout my whole pregnancy. I thought his milk would dry by 3rd trimester but nope, my body was still producing milk. We decided to continue and tandem nurse, so he can self-wean when he is ready.
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Tandem feeding has not always been easy. I actually don't think it has ever been easy. Sometimes I feel touched out, really touched out. To a point where I just do not want to be touched. Then I talk myself into it "just 10 mins, you can do this". Ten minutes somehow felt like eternity.
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Other times I feel touched by their bond. It melts my heart seeing how happy and close these two are, my 2Breasties💜🤱🏿

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