We have been teaching Bradley Method® classes
long enough to have the privilege of having alumni students come back and take
another series as they are expecting their next child. We have one of those couples in our current
class, and something came up in class that made me reflect on our births. The class topic last week was stages of labor. We talked about the markers of the differentstages of labor, how to identify “transition” that typically happens betweenfirst stage(cervical dilation and positioning baby) and |
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I like to dedicate the last Friday of the month to a breastfeeding-related topic. Today’s post is a shout-out to all the mamas who are
managing to feed their babies breastmilk against the odds. I am not going to call them out by name; I
will leave that to them if they want to share more of their story in the
comments section. I do want to share
their situations so that if you know of someone or you are the someone in their
situation, you can take heart in their stories and maybe breastfeed just one
more day…
