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#feeding #breastfeeding #valentines #humor #realsticexpectations #ibclc #support #parenthood #new #poem #vagina [image description : white baby, latched on a breast, dark blue eyes looking up at its parent. Text layed over says: my boobs are leaking, my vagina is too, but these eyes say, I love you! @beyondbabyhood @eathing.mama]
What do you see when you see this baby?
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When I was a new parent 5 years ago, I saw a grumpy baby who didn't really get breastfeeding was meant to be easy.
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What I see now, as a #skilled #feeding supporter is evidence of the feeding struggles we where already having & the ones yet to come.
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For this is my baby, who started the next level of my training and taught me many lessons.
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The biggest thing I want you to know, is here is where I wish skilled support was accessed. It wasn't through a lack of trying, at one point I did a clinic a day! But the mix of people I saw, wasn't right until around 8 traumatic weeks in. π§‘
The things I see now, that break my heart a little, are a baby asleep with balled up fists. For mant babies, their hand relax with a full tummy, especially when asleep.
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I see a worried frown on a sleeping baby, another sign of discontent and evidence of the feeding issues we had.
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For the longest time (around a year) it was one day at a time, despite all of this, we meet my final feeding goal of self weaning at 4.5 years.
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So if you are worried about your baby, follow your #insticts β€οΈπ§‘ππππ
Ps. 2 weeks till the next #ibclc #dropin
Sunday 23rd 1-2pm @ Wycombe Library
It's no secrete, I love to merge my creativity with my work.β
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I've combined my training from @mindfulbreastfeedingcoach with some of my own ideas, to make some feeding affirmation cards. β
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Why? Because adding feeding challenges, to new parenthood, is a ripe zone for negative mental chatter.β
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These affirmations, are one way to switch this up. We will custom make some that fit that parents unique situation too, and I look forward to finding out if they make a positive difference over the following weeks. β
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Another tool, is mediation, which will also be road tested for the first time in a home visit today. β
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#mindfulbreastfeeding #mindfulfeeding #affirmations #new #IBCLC #heart #feedingsupport #craft #design #creativity
5 years ago you where born,
And my reality was torn,
So so far,
From what previously I saw.
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Not knowing then,
How much it would teach us,
Not knowing then,
How far it would lead us.
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We muddled through,
We got by,
And as the years do pass,
A little, I still cry.
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For the dream of the joy,
Of latching and feeding,
Was replaced with tears,
And nipples bleeding.
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We still meet our goal,
Self weaning from the breast,
But the years did prove,
To be our greatest test.
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Happy birthday to my bottom first boy, who fed well #beyondbabyhood and is why I do what I do.
#breaststeeding #feeding #trauma #greif #whyidothiswork #ibclc #lactationconsultant #poetry #birthday #hardwork #goals #breechbaby #vaginalbreechbirth
