Little Monkeys Clinic

26/03/2024

Dresses For Lives...Day 25 DFL #0011

Today I want to honour one of my dearest friends and colleague Mari who is a mother of prem twins and two term kiddies. We've known each other for 20 years and it's been such a wonderful journey of friendship, care, support, learning and endless cups of tea 💜☕🤱🏻

She has incredible determination, runs a cosy clinic from her farm & somehow finds enough energy to be a supermom everyday too!!

On a trip last year she brought this postcard for me and it's become my favourite bookmark for obvious reasons. It's wonderful to see how breastfeeding is being encouraged & highlighted...it's even postcard worthy!!

Dankie Mari dat jy deel is van my 'village' en dat ek deel kan wees van joune ❤️🙏🏻❤️

It Takes A Village To Raise A Family 🌱☕🌻

Little Monkeys Clinic Milk Matters

09/12/2022

Why donate breastmilk? Donated breastmilk is a gift that gives hope, health and life. Becoming a breastmilk donor is: Easy Possible for most breastfeeding mothers Potentially life-saving for premature babies Just 50ml of breastmilk can feed a baby of less than 1kg for 24 hours. Every drop really doe...

21/10/2022

Morning everyone! Nurturenest will be at the expo next weekend 🙌 There will be an amazing competition for our expecting couples: WIN AN ENTIRE YEAR’S JOURNEY AT NURTURENEST!! 🤰

Prize includes:
🌸 0-4, 5-8 and 9-12 month Baby & Me classes
🌸 60min breastfeeding consultation with Sr Janette Mostert (SACLC)
🌸 30min follow-up clinic visit
🌸 Baby Massage workshop
🌸 Infant CPR & First Aid Course with Safe Kids
🌸 Starting Solids workshop with Roxanne Marcus from Nourish Gently
🌸 Mini Drive-by Photoshoot with Lindie Otto Photography
🌸 3x Mommy Meet-ups
🌸 3x Doting Dads classes

How to enter? Sign up and pay for your antenatal course at the expo, and you will automatically be entered into the draw. Winner will be announced on 1 November!

Visit us at the expo 28-30 October at Stand N23!

20/10/2022

Excitement is in the air! 🎈 We will be at the Mama Magic Expo next weekend and have some awesome prizes and discounts up for grabs 🙌 Watch this space for details!

20/10/2022

14/10/2022

New Milk matters breastmilk drop off point in our area!

Why donate breastmilk? Donated breastmilk is a gift that gives hope, health and life. Becoming a breastmilk donor is: Easy Possible for most breastfeeding mothers Potentially life-saving for premature babies Just 50ml of breastmilk can feed a baby of less than 1kg for 24 hours. Every drop really doe...

11/08/2022

Babies should spend most of the time on the floor and unrestricted!

Container Syndrome is a term used to describe the lack of skill in infants who are not allowed ample movement opportunities. Container Baby Syndrome is the result of an infant being placed in a container for an excessive amount of time during the day. This extended time leads to structural, movement, and behavioral challenges as a result.

Baby containers include baby equipment and items such as:

👣Restrictive playpens
👣Crib
👣Car seats
👣Strollers
👣Bumbo seats
👣Bouncy seats and swings
👣Rockers
👣Nursing cushions
👣Vibrating chairs
👣Jumpers
👣Exersaucers
👣Positioning pillows
👣Slings
👣Floor seats
👣Infant swings
👣Walkers
👣Jumpers

All of the time spent in these baby containers adds up! When in a positioning device such as the ones listed above, little ones are limited in the motor development that results from stretching, wiggling, turning, reaching, and otherwise moving.

https://www.theottoolbox.com/container-baby-syndrome/

05/08/2022

Dear Husband,

There’s a life in the future with little faces in photo frames instead of before our eyes, and artwork and abc magnets won’t adorn our fridge.

There’s a bed big enough, where little elbows and knees won’t prod us in our sleep and only our feet will swing out in the morning.

There’s a vase placed in reach of little arms because there aren’t any, and mugs will daringly sit on the edge of the table.

There’s a bank balance that looks a bit more forgiving and a bag I leave with that isn’t overflowing.

There’s a free calendar that isn’t packed with swimming lessons, dance classes and muddy sports shoes. And we’ll get to know each other for a third time, before them, with them, and then when only two jackets hang at the door.

There’s a clean car, the only noise is the hum of the radio. There will be no endless questions in a high pitched voice from the back seat, there may even be days we don’t hear from them at all.

There’s a date night with no curfew, my mums not needed for babysitting, and we aren’t sleeping with one eye open waiting for the shuffle of feet down the hallway. A type of freedom that feels heavy.

There’s a house that’s clean, maybe our couch is new, we aren’t stepping on Lego or toy cars either. In fact there’s not much colour anywhere. Remember how it came with so much happiness?

There’s a dinner table that feels big, we aren’t negotiating bites of vegetables or wiping little hands and mouths. But sometimes there’s a knock on the door & the table is full once more.

There’s a shower that doesn’t sound like baby cries, a coffee that is warm and my body will be my own. We won’t wear tired the same way but time will have aged us anyway.

There will be hard moments to come that will make these moments look easy, but we’ll remember.
We’ll remember the first words, the curls, the “I love you’s” the moments we almost broke, & how we held each other through it all.

There’s a life in the future and it’s coming for us. So let’s get swept up in the beautiful chaos in front of us.
Let’s make the future wait a little longer.
Because I love this life with you so much,
this one right now.

Words: Jess Urlichs, Writer words from hardback edition of ‘From One Mom to a Mother’ available here: www.jessicaurlichs.com/shop
Art: angelica.ch.r

03/08/2022

This is why I say every day breastfeeding support is essential!

Some thoughts on all the women and families who have been failed by the system that was meant to support them.

No to feeling that you failed

No to dismissing this

No to saying it doesn't matter

No to ignoring women

No to saying the only thing that matters is your baby is fed

No to gaslighting women by telling them 'breast is best' and then offering formula as a solution to any breastfeeding challenge

No to the promotion of breastfeeding without following up with the protection and support it needs

Yes to supporting all families, no matter how their baby is fed

Yes to listening to what the woman in front of you is telling you mattered to her

Yes to respecting all feeding decisions

Yes to working on building a society that protects rather than destroys breastfeeding

Yes to realising how she feels is not a criticism of others

Yes to making things better for the future

02/08/2022

Jip

😅 Steek jou hand op as jy al ooit so mishandel is deur jou hart-se-punt …

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏼‍♀️🙋🏻🙋🏼

Sien … weereens 😜





Liefde!
Ons 3

30/07/2022

Kick off week with expectant mothers guide breastfeeding talk!