Monthly Archives: August 2016

Top Five Reasons We Need A Black Breastfeeding Week

http://blackbreastfeedingweek.org/why-we-need-black-breastfeeding-week/   Black Breastfeeding Week was created because for over 40 years there has been a gaping racial disparity in breastfeeding rates. The most recent CDC data show that 75% of white women have ever breastfed versus 58.9% of black women. The fact that racial disparity in initiation and even bigger one for duration hasContinueContinue reading “Top Five Reasons We Need A Black Breastfeeding Week”

Dear Mothers: We’re Not Meant to “Bounce Back”

http://revolutionfromhome.com/2016/08/we-arent-meant-to-bounce-back-after-babies/ (click link to read the blog post) We’re not meant to “bounce back” after babies. Not physically, not emotionally, and definitelynot spiritually. We’re meant to step forward into more awakened, more attuned, and more powerful versions of ourselves. Motherhood is a sacred, beautiful, honorable evolution, not the shameful shift into a lesser-than state ofContinueContinue reading “Dear Mothers: We’re Not Meant to “Bounce Back””

DEAR TODDLER, I’M SORRY ABOUT THE NEW BABY

http://www.beautythroughimperfection.com/dear-toddler-im-sorry-about-the-new-baby/ Sweet. (Click link above to read the whole post on beautythroughimperfection.com) Dear Toddler, I’m sorry about the New Baby. I’m sorry that since he’s been here, things have been totally different for you and for us. I’m sorry for those days/weeks/months where Mommy wasn’t quite herself because if you only knew what my body went throughContinueContinue reading “DEAR TODDLER, I’M SORRY ABOUT THE NEW BABY”