Asking for Help Doesn’t Make You Less of a Parent

http://wellroundedny.com/asking-help-doesnt-make-less-parent-2/ (click link above to read the entire post on wellroundedny.com) A mom of twins explains why she said yes to every offer. I was 40 years old when I got pregnant with my twins. Because of my age, I would have been happy to have one baby. Having two was icing on the cake. IContinue reading “Asking for Help Doesn’t Make You Less of a Parent”

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