Encouragement

Disclosure :: World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1 – 7, 2016. This year, the World Breastfeeding Week theme is about how breastfeeding is a key element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share. Our World Breastfeeding Week is sponsored by Woman’s Hospital. Congratulations to all expectant parents! This is such an exciting time in your life. There is so much to do while you await your baby’s arrival. There are also so many decisions to make. Have you thought about how you will feed your child? Breastfeeding is the optimal nutrition for newborns. August 1-7  is World Breastfeeding Week, and we celebrate your...

Disclosure :: World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1 – 7, 2016. This year, the World Breastfeeding Week theme is about how breastfeeding is a key element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share. Our World Breastfeeding Week is sponsored by Woman’s Hospital. I speak both languages. I formula-fed my first and breastfed my second. That's just how it worked out for me. I made choices based on circumstances and resources, capability and convenience and pain vs no pain. I made the choices that made me the best mom possible for each of my children. It happens that both infancies I've lived through survived,...

Disclosure :: World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1 – 7, 2016. This year, the World Breastfeeding Week theme is about how breastfeeding is a key element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share. Our World Breastfeeding Week is sponsored by Woman’s Hospital. You hear it all the time, “The weight will melt off while you’re breastfeeding!” Well, after nursing my first son for 22 months and now that I’m going on 17 months with my second, I’d like to call total and absolute BS on that one. Suuuure, it may work for SOME, but for the majority of us it just doesn’t...

Disclosure :: World Breastfeeding Week is recognized August 1 – 7, 2016. This year, the World Breastfeeding Week theme is about how breastfeeding is a key element in getting us to think about how to value our wellbeing from the start of life, how to respect each other and care for the world we share. Our World Breastfeeding Week is sponsored by Woman’s Hospital.   One lazy day when my oldest daughter was about four months old, my husband and I decided to go to town (what we folks outside of city limits say when we venture into the Red Stick). I filled two bottles with breastmilk and packed up the diapers. I fed our daughter the first bottle during one of the many...

Today I was THAT mom. The mom we never want to be. The mom we've all judged. The mom who blames herself for allowing her unruly children to disrupt a public establishment.  As I frantically stormed out of the movie theatre with two crying (ok, one was screaming) children, I couldn't help but shed a few tears as I felt like the huge failure we never want our children to see in us as parents. In the past, many times, I've been guilty of judging moms with the screaming toddler on the cereal aisle, but today my emotions shifted to the other side of the fence and wow, did it feel terrible. As my children managed to ruin a major...