
Breastfeeding and The Four Agreements
Today I’m going to get a little deep-stay with me. I want to discuss a more spiritual whole-person approach to breastfeeding through the lens of life practices, a mantra, or the golden rules that challenge one to live with true freedom and on their own path. I want to discuss the Four Agreements. Have you heard of them? They are: Be Impeccable with Your Word Don’t take Anything Personally Don’t Make Assumptions Always do Your Best They sound deceptively simple, right? But the

I'm Not Perfect
I’m not. Nope, not at all. Not as a lactation consultant and certainly not as a mother. Let me back up. Why am I writing about this? At a recent home consultation I was working with a mother who had delivered by cesarean birth. When I casually commiserated about the abdominal pain and difficult recovery following a cesarean birth she stopped me. “You had a cesarean birth?! You?! I thought you likely had a non-medicated home birth with no interventions and no complications and