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Here is the story of my breastfeeding journey and the four tips I now give everyone mom to help them thrive breastfeeding!
And if you are a breastfeeding mom or have one in your life, check out my gift giving guide for breastfeeding moms!
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You’re near the finish line and whether through vaginal delivery or caesarean, your baby is coming soon…oh happy day.
You’ll start to read up on every birth article you can find, watch every birthing video you can stomach, and take any and all childbirth classes you hear about.
Your doctor, family, and friends will do you their very best to prepare you for that special moment – the moment you give birth.
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I jumped out of the shower yesterday to grab my towel off of the rack and I was a little…ahem…bouncy.
I’ve got some serious stretch marks, and there isn’t anything that shea butter lotion, HOURS of running and a thousand crunches can do to help me.
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Your body and soul have just been through the mammoth task of growing and birthing a baby into the world. Now you need some serious resting and healing time!
For many mums the fourth trimester, or newborn stage, is filled with both some of the highest highs, and the greatest challenges of our lives.
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Being an exclusive pumper means many things.
The biggest thing it means is that you are a hard working, loving, strong mama. Breastfeeding is so hard, and having to pump non-stop, 24/7 is just as hard if even more so.
There are lots of reasons why moms choose to exclusively pump breast milk instead of breastfeed.
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Breastfeed, they said. It’ll be easy, they said.
And like a sucker I believed it…the part where they said it’d be easy.
I read here and there that breastfeeding is hard. But I always thought, not for me! I’m going to breastfeed my kids effortlessly! That was my attitude.
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Congratulations! You made it through childbirth and are now snuggling at home with your new baby.
In a perfect world, every new mama would have live-in help for several weeks after delivery. Then you wouldn’t have to worry about a thing except nursing your new little one and recovering.
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It truly was a miracle – my baby boy slept through the night!
For some moms, this was a much simpler feat to accomplish especially if their kiddo was sleeping through the night early on.
However, for me it was a BIG deal – after months of enduring sleep deprivation, I finally felt like I had turned a corner.
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We remember it all too well.
The way your husband looked at you whenever you gave birth to that beautiful baby.
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So you welcome a baby, or in my case babies, into the world.
You put all your time and energy into your pregnancy, the nursery, nurturing your growing bump. It’s everything baby for 10 months!
Then baby gets here and your whole world becomes a little bundle swaddled up in that white, pink, and blue receiving blanket.
