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I have plenty of past experience pumping/bottle feeding when my oldest child was in daycare. This time around, I am a stay at home mom, so really, the times we need bottles are few. However, since I teach childbirth classes and need to be away at least once per week, the people who care [...]
My Home Birth Story
‘Twas the night before Eden, when all through the house,
my contractions were coming but not very close.
The birth pool was out in my living room with care,
In hopes that my baby would soon be there.
My three year old, hubby and I went for [...]
For A Better Birth, Childbirth Preparation is a Must
I once heard an OB ask their patient if she had taken a childbirth class. Mama answered no, to which the OB said, “Oh, don’t worry, I’ll walk you through it.”
Yeah, that doesn’t ever happen. Maybe she’ll walk you through the pushing [...]
Before reading about why in the heck we were breastfeeding from one breast, go ahead and read my previous posts about our breastfeeding journey, start here:
Our Breastfeeding Journey – Pregnancy Our Breastfeeding Journey – Immediate Post Partum
I tell everybody that when Gabriel was born he was such an easy baby. G was a beautiful joy to be around and anything he did was glorious. I nursed him whenever he wanted, held him whenever he wanted and I had the best baby moon I could have hoped for. My oxytocin was pumping, [...]
I found this article in my inbox and I wanted to share with my readers. Lately, I’ve been using my coconut oil as a moisturizer and have loved it. It smells good and there aren’t any chemicals in it! Come to find [...]
I listened in on a very interesting conference call today. The call was about Best Fed Beginnings, which is an effort to help hospitals nationwide make quality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breastfeed. This project will address the need to improve [...]
I was scheduled to go back to work when Gabriel was 13 weeks. I was grateful for the three months I had with him after he was born, but I was dreading… DREADING, going back to work. Instead of being excited that he was growing and getting bigger each week, I got more and more [...]
This is a breastfeeding story written by a dear friend and doula client of mine. She is one of the sweetest people I have been blessed to know and is an incredible mother. Please take the time to read her story, as every woman has a story we can learn from. My friend’s story would [...]
Lindsey Morrow, along with her readers, rises from maiden to mother – one of the most profound and transformative journeys of life. She hopes to inspire women to be mindful in their experiences, revealing new questions and solutions each step of the way.
