Breastfeeding is Making Me Anxious!
If you feel anxious or worried about breastfeeding, you are not alone. Often women are surprised by the anxiety they feel around breastfeeding. When breastfeeding challenges arise, you might feel worried all the time & maybe have persistent feelings of failure. You might even spend lots of time trying to learn as much as you…
Joy is the answer
This article is a confession. I have struggled with feeling good enough. I have worked diligently over the years to overcome these feelings & love myself more. Yet, the critic, is powerful, and at every turn, it would find new ways to judge me to keep me safe and remain small. But this past year, I…
Information for Sleep Consultants on Coaching
As a sleep consultant, you might encounter clients who don’t seem settled in their sleep decisions. Maybe you sense an underlying worry or anxiety, that you can’t seem to support a client with. They may have nagging worries about their baby’s well-being, or might become so hyper-focused on sleep learning, that they have lost the…
“Inadequate Mom” Anxiety
“I believed strongly in attachment parenting. I was young mom, I was caring, attentive and spent lots of time reflecting on my parenting (and by “reflecting”, I really mean second guessing)”
What to Pack for the Hospital
Your Hospital Bag Checklist: Packing Your Hospital Bag for labour It’s a good idea to have a labour bag packed and ready to go a 3-4 weeks before your due date. Labour can begin at any time! Hospital Bag checklist for mom: Here is a good list of things to bring. Keep in mind, that…
Postpartum Body Changes: Learning to Inhabit your Postpartum Body
During pregnancy, many women experience a little reprieve from the pressures of having to look skinny or perfect. In fact, for the first time since we were children, we are expected to gain weight! It may be challenging to have so many physical changes in pregnancy, but we as a society, expect women’s bodies to…
Balanced Motherhood:What to do when you can’t do it all
Sometimes we feel: scattered, overwhelmed, happy, angry, resentful, guilty. Somewhere along the line, we were told that we could do it all…whatever that is. Even worse, maybe we were told we SHOULD do it all! Along came baby. Now “doing it all” means something totally different, and perhaps something totally impossible, even mythical! Being a…