Breastfeeding Education

26 Mar

Directly after our Lamaze training, Michelle and I headed off to attend two days worth of Breastfeeding Education provided by the Texas Department of State and Health Services.  The courses were free and took place at Baylor Medical Center in Garland, Texas. The first eight hour class, titled, Breastfeeding Management, taught by Hellen Sullivan, RN, IBCLC, was INCREDIBLE.  I learned so much and I can’t wait to use it for not only myself but for moms that I will be working with and educating in the future.

Honestly, I can’t get over how much I learned.  I will slowly digest it all and share it with you on this blog but my few favorite tricks are this:

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Lamaze Childbirth Educator Training Seminar

26 Mar

On March 10th, 11th and 12th I attended a Lamaze Childbirth Educator Training Seminar.  I was joined by my funny, beautiful and amazingly talented doula friend, Michelle, as well as several lactation consultants, doulas, childbirth educators (who desire to become certified through Lamaze) and labor and delivery nurses.   We learned scads of evidence based research on childbirth.  We also gained insightful teaching methods.  I will sit for my LCCE exam on April 26th, supposing I’m not in labor or directly postpartum. So, I’ve got some studying to do.  In the meantime here are pictures from our weekend.

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Zoe’s 2nd Birthday Party

8 Mar

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Happy 33rd birthday to me! I’m pregnant!

6 Mar

OMG!

I promised months ago, in this post that I would tell you all how I found out I was pregnant with baby number two.  I had thought that I lost all my photos from this memorable night when my old lap top died and as a result I had lost momentum to blog about it. You see, the pictures tell the story better than I ever could.  In fact, just Tuesday night I was sharing with some friends how sad I was that these pictures were gone.  Well, today, I stumbled across an old camera chip, and when I popped it in, there they all were, photos from my 33rd birthday and the night I found out, surprisingly, that I was pregnant. Continue reading

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