Parenthood in Bloom

05/31/2026

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has reaffirmed that mother’s own milk is the optimal nutrition for very low birth weight infants in the NICU.

When mother’s own milk is not available, insufficient, or contraindicated, the AAP recommends pasteurized donor human milk to help reduce the risk of serious complications, including necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). 🛡️

Donor human milk plays an important role in protecting vulnerable infants and supporting improved outcomes when maternal milk is not available.

🔗 Read the full clinical report: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/157/2/e2025073625/206082/Promoting-Human-Milk-and-Breastfeeding-for-the?autologincheck=redirected

05/29/2026

Last slide is worth remembering in that first year postpartum, especially!

05/28/2026

For generations, women learned about birth from other women. They witnessed it. Supported it. Trusted it.

Now, many women reach adulthood having never seen an undisturbed physiological birth once in their lives.

Instead, birth is often introduced through fear, emergency storylines, hospital dramas, timelines, interventions, and the message that women’s bodies are unpredictable problems waiting to happen.

So of course home birth sounds “extreme” to many people. What’s actually unfamiliar is physiological birth itself.

And that doesn’t mean every woman should birth at home. It means women deserve to know what physiological birth is before they’re taught to fear it.

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05/28/2026

“Muscle and Milk" captures a powerful truth about modern motherhood: strength and caregiving are not opposites, they coexist.

Photographed by husband-and-wife duo Anita Clark and Paul Wenham-Clarke and shortlisted for both the 2025 AOP Open Awards and the Sony World Photography Awards, the image features three rugby players breastfeeding their babies moments after finishing a match. The result is both striking and deeply human. A portrait of women refusing to choose between ambition, athleticism, and motherhood.

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05/27/2026

Informal gathering with light refreshments provided. Feel free to bring a treat, topic of discussion, or business cards if you’d like!

This is a FREE event for birth workers only. Please reach out to me directly for more information on location 🌸