August is World Breastfeeding Month!!!!!!
The first week of August (1st-7th) kicks off World Breastfeeding Month! I am very happy and proud to be a part of this movement and so should you. With mothers all over the world who demonstrate, advocate and educate breastfeeding this world has started to view this topic differently. I am an optimist, so I believe if we stand and unite as women we will make change! Stand up today and demonstrate, advocate or educate on the topic of breastfeeding and we can move ahead.
Send in your thoughts and beautiful nursing photos and I'll post throughout the month!
Happy Nursing Your Little Monkey
and Happy transitioning to your new life!
Evie
Monday, July 31, 2006
Friday, July 28, 2006
Share your Stories and Photos
If you have a postpartum story, thoughts, photos you would like to share coming home from the hospital with your new baby or breastfeeding (with or without The Nursing Curtain!) then we would like to hear from you. Send me your writing, thoughts or photos and I'll post it on this blog!
Happy transitioning to your New Life,
Evie
Mommy of 3 Little Monkeys
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Mamma's Body Postpartum
My friend Bonnie has created a fabulous new blog The Shape of a Mother. Ladies you have to check this site out! It's wonderful, motivating and will touch your hearts. Finally, confirmation that I am not the only one! I can relate with so many of the women who posted on this blog, I'm just not brave to post yet. Stay tuned, I just might.
You can check her site out by clicking on her link to the left :)
Happy transitioning
Evie
Mommy of 3 little monkeys
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Photos :)
Today we had a photo shoot with little francesca and she had some fun. Check out the great photos she took with The Nursing Curtain (TM)! She's such a cutie pie.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68037020@N00/
Today we had a photo shoot with little francesca and she had some fun. Check out the great photos she took with The Nursing Curtain (TM)! She's such a cutie pie.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68037020@N00/
Thankful
Today I am exactly 2 years 3 months and 1 week postpartum with my third child. Well, I guess postpartum isn't the right word but because I feel like it happened yersteday I'll give myself permission to use the word. Yes I delivered my beautiful baby boy some time ago but I look at him and feel like it went by so very fast. I love to just watch him some days, playing with his two sisters and observe how he interacts with them. When he's in the mood to play cooperatively, he is this little boy that is running around independently. In a quick second he can turn right back into my tiny toddler and run to me crying for all of my physical attention.
My other two beautiful girls run the show. They are still so very small but time is passing so very fast. I mourn their births some days and want to hold on to every memory that I can. I do this by telling them their own birth story and from this they frequently ask me to tell them, and describe to them every detail of not only their births but of other events. I know it will go by soon, I'm reminded of this everyday and every celebration, plus my mother will not stop reminding me of this as well. She often tells me to take it in and relax, "they'll grow up and leave you soon". This makes me sad but remembering that I have a job, 1 job, to raise them into the best human beings that I can is this job and after to release into the world to be good, productive individuals. My gift is experiencing being a mother and receiving love, patience and becoming a better person.
I love my three children and thank the lord for bringing them to me. I am so thankful for these beautiful babies that made me the woman I am today. They make me so much stronger, they make me so much more humbled and they have helped me look at life and love so much more than I ever thought possible.
For this I am Thankful :)
Happy Transitioning
Evie
Mommy of 3 Little Monkeys
Friday, July 14, 2006
Post Partum Transitioning
So the built up excitement and curiosity of what will come has passed...You've delivered your baby. You have experienced physical discomfort, pain and the great feeling of pushing out this little watermelon, and the best of it all meeting and holding your little monkey. You've looked over your little one and have studied his/her face, hands, fingers and toes. What a wonderful experience! Just the start of mommyhood.
All was probably to be expected. Your changing body and emotions but no one really got you ready for the actual physical and emotional changes after the birth of your baby.
Do they have a class on all the tiny details of what will happen? I never received that information...Maybe I didn't take that class. I know I was a little angry though. I felt it was just something someone should have talked to me about! The burning episiotomy stitches that killed me when I bent over to pick up my brand new baby. The engorged, burning breasts that felt like they were ready to explode. The sore nipples that I was warned about the possibility of occurring by the lactation consultant but by the time I got home I had no idea I was breastfeeding incorrectly. And the gross feeling of lochia -discharge-that was never ending and made me feel so icky. Call it immaturity, call it ignorance or my fault for not asking many questions BUT how was I supposed to know what to ask? I was angry with my surrounding team of women in my life. I was really angry with my mom but I kept it inside. I was upset they did not tell me of all the physical changes involved with child birth and postpartum transitioning. Come on! We're supposed to stick together and inform eachother of all of the possibilities so that I'm not stuck at home afterwards with a brand new baby having to hit Wal-mart for super powerful numbing hemorrhoid spray! I guess this is why they call it a learning experience.
This is where a little bit of the baby blues hit me. I was very happy to have my baby but I was uncertain, I was in a bit of discomfort and I had a brand new baby to depend on me while all of this physical transtioning was going on. My hormones we very imbalanced and now as a new Mommy I felt expected to know what I had to do and feel. Not the case! So what was the lesson learned? To ask many questions!
Keep checking in with me and I'll do my best to touch those subjects you may want answered that Mom won't cover unless you ask. Sometimes even if you ask they don't want to talk OR they may remember a little differently than occured...."I remeber when I was in labor and I walked to the hospital in a snow storm, I never received an drop of pain medicine....the baby took to my breast and I never had a single problem....I was up making dinner and back to normal the next day....my babies never cried" Yeah whatever!
Come back for great topics I'll be covering: Breastfeeding-physical changes and the ups and downs, Your body afterwards: it's beautiful no matter what you think!, small steps to feeling confident about new mommyhood-don't worry you will get there, baby blues and postpartum depression
See you Soon!!!!!!
Happy Transitioning
Evie
Mommy of 3 Little Monkeys
So the built up excitement and curiosity of what will come has passed...You've delivered your baby. You have experienced physical discomfort, pain and the great feeling of pushing out this little watermelon, and the best of it all meeting and holding your little monkey. You've looked over your little one and have studied his/her face, hands, fingers and toes. What a wonderful experience! Just the start of mommyhood.
All was probably to be expected. Your changing body and emotions but no one really got you ready for the actual physical and emotional changes after the birth of your baby.
Do they have a class on all the tiny details of what will happen? I never received that information...Maybe I didn't take that class. I know I was a little angry though. I felt it was just something someone should have talked to me about! The burning episiotomy stitches that killed me when I bent over to pick up my brand new baby. The engorged, burning breasts that felt like they were ready to explode. The sore nipples that I was warned about the possibility of occurring by the lactation consultant but by the time I got home I had no idea I was breastfeeding incorrectly. And the gross feeling of lochia -discharge-that was never ending and made me feel so icky. Call it immaturity, call it ignorance or my fault for not asking many questions BUT how was I supposed to know what to ask? I was angry with my surrounding team of women in my life. I was really angry with my mom but I kept it inside. I was upset they did not tell me of all the physical changes involved with child birth and postpartum transitioning. Come on! We're supposed to stick together and inform eachother of all of the possibilities so that I'm not stuck at home afterwards with a brand new baby having to hit Wal-mart for super powerful numbing hemorrhoid spray! I guess this is why they call it a learning experience.
This is where a little bit of the baby blues hit me. I was very happy to have my baby but I was uncertain, I was in a bit of discomfort and I had a brand new baby to depend on me while all of this physical transtioning was going on. My hormones we very imbalanced and now as a new Mommy I felt expected to know what I had to do and feel. Not the case! So what was the lesson learned? To ask many questions!
Keep checking in with me and I'll do my best to touch those subjects you may want answered that Mom won't cover unless you ask. Sometimes even if you ask they don't want to talk OR they may remember a little differently than occured...."I remeber when I was in labor and I walked to the hospital in a snow storm, I never received an drop of pain medicine....the baby took to my breast and I never had a single problem....I was up making dinner and back to normal the next day....my babies never cried" Yeah whatever!
Come back for great topics I'll be covering: Breastfeeding-physical changes and the ups and downs, Your body afterwards: it's beautiful no matter what you think!, small steps to feeling confident about new mommyhood-don't worry you will get there, baby blues and postpartum depression
See you Soon!!!!!!
Happy Transitioning
Evie
Mommy of 3 Little Monkeys
The Nursing CurtainTM
We've all been there, a new mommy getting use to the whole experience of motherhood, breastfeeding, sore breasts, and modesty issues in public! Well a great solution to your public breastfeeding fear is The Nursing CurtainTM. You will not feel the need to leave the room to go to the bathroom, back room or your car again.
The Nursing Curtain TM by Mommy's Little MonkeyTM is a nursing essential for mommies who want to modestly nurse in public. With its durable neck ring and secured snap closures your nursing experience is sure to be calm knowing that your little one will not tug it off. Viewing your little monkey is always an option, simply lift the neck ring when necessary and check in to see how they're doing. For those Mommies interested in partial back coverage, The Nursing CurtainTM delivers a wrap around design that partially covers those unwanted exposed areas during post partum transitioning.
The Nursing CurtainTM conveniently comes in two styles-lined and unlined. Choose the unlined version for warm summer days or for those mommies who tend to get hot during nursing time. Choose the lined version for colder seasons, night time events or for those mommies who tend to get cold easily. They both contain a convenient interior pocket and the lined version has an attachment burp cloth for little messes made by mommy or your little monkey.
They both also double up as a blanket once baby is sleeping or to cover up a stroller with.
Check out The Nursing Curtain at the link above
Mommy's Little Monkey TM
Mommy's Little MonkeyTM was created with pampering Mommies and their Little Monkeys in mind. We believe that post transitioning into motherhood is a delicate and gentle time for Mommy. We hope to bring you this blogg to speak and reach out to all mommies about this gentle time and related issues.
Thanks and Happy transitioning with your Little Monkey,
Evie
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