Share Your Doula Story!

It's always encouraging to hear from your peers the  positive experiences of allowing a doula to be a part of such an intimate journey.

I want to highlight those experiences.

There will also be a prize involved.

All you have to do is submit your story to jcherise1@gmail.com by 3pm tomorrow. The first to submission will receive a prize.

Please don't let the fact that there will only be one recipient deter you from submitting your experiences. I plan to publish all submissions to serve as encouragement for those who have not experienced having one.

I look forward to reading your stories!

International Women's Day

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!!

 

 

"Be not ashamed women, … You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul." -Walt Whitman

 

I wanted to dedicate this post to the amazing mothers, daughters, nieces, aunts, grandmothers, and all women <3

Breastmilk Remedy

A few posts ago I posted this list of remedies involving breastmilk. Well, I tried one of them!

My youngest daughter caught pink eye a few months ago. I had no insurance and the medicine was way too expensive to pay out of pocket! It was about $150 for a little bottle of eyedrops. That wasn't an option. So I thought to myself, "Let me use the information that I found. And hey! I can report back to you all how it worked for me." So I did it. I used my milk as I would have used the medicine prescribed for my daughter. And don't you know? It cleared it right up after a couple of days!!! No lie. Believe me when I say it has worked for me. And I should add that her pink eye was a bit worse than her previous bouts with pink eye. She would wake up with a swollen, crusty eye (gross, right?). Then when  her eye was open it was red and constant drainage (puke!). But that home remedy worked like a charm!

So to my fellow, breastfeeding mamas. If you have the ability or desire to try it then I suggest you do. Because it worked for me!