BLISS

Happy Mother’s Day to all of my beautiful BLISS Mamas and sweet Mamas to Be!! 🤰🏻💕🤱🏻

Wishing you all a very BLESSED and Happy Easter! 🐣💕✝️

May your troubles be less,
And your blessing be more.
And nothing but happiness,
Come through your door 🍀

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all of my
BLISS families! I am blessed daily by your sweet little “Lucky Charms!”

This is a great program for little ones to safely explore, build motor skills, and engage in sensory play! Miss Megan Crosby is an excellent teacher and just loves all her baby bees!

We love our Baby Bees (I mean who couldn't)! Join us this Thursday and see what all the BUZZ is about!🐝✨🐝✨
Link to sign up:https://ow.ly/foMv50QJxh3

What an honor to receive this award for a second year in a row! I am just so humbled as I continue to be blessed by this business daily. It is such a privilege to be able to serve the mother’s in my community 🤰🏻💕🤱🏻

One thing I LOVE and cherish just as much as helping mamas and their little ones on their breastfeeding journey is watching them GROW after our time together has passed!! Whether it’s through facebook/IG posts, cards, or texts I receive… my heart just bubbles up with so much joy when I see them! Sometimes even an occasional tear 🥲 as these babies all grow so dang FAST! I will never tire of seeing them 💕

To my sweet families- thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for choosing me. I am forever grateful and continue to be blessed by you daily 🥰

Dr Joe Cangas - MD is a fantastic option for those who are looking for a different style/model of care outside of the traditional pediatrician’s office. He is pro-parent choice and come’s to your homes 💕

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A little breastfeeding humor 🤣 I’m sure a few of you can relate 🙋🏻‍♀️🤱🏼 LOL

TikTok · Emily Vondy 81.7K likes, 1090 comments. “Doing the absolute most poor things 😭❤️”

Mama’s with littles!! This is such a great way to get your babies moving and discovering the world around them!! It’s also an excellent way to meet other local Moms! Megan Crosby is fantastic at leading this class and you will just love her to pieces!

Secure your spot today! Sign up and get your first month FREE!

Every Thursday, we have a class designed for you and your baby to get active, socialize, and bond! This class is for babies 4 months- walking; once they are walking, they will graduate to TumbleBees🐝✨

Link to sign up: https://app.iclasspro.com/portal/olympiadchesterfield/classes?days=5

New Mamas… check out this local support group coming up 💕👶🏻 love this so much!

Website- https://www.chesterfieldca.com

Happy New Year!! Crazy to think how fast 2023 went by. BLISS was incredibly blessed to serve more than DOUBLE the families than in 2022!! I am so grateful and looking forward to what 2024 has in store! 💕🥰

Merry Christmas from my family to yours! So grateful for all of the families I have been blessed to work with. Thank you for continuing support my small business ❤️🎄

Great info from a fellow LC! 🫶🏼🍼

Human milk is so precious, invaluable (tho averages about $6/ounce), and rarely ever becomes dangerous or unsafe and need be discarded.

If someone has told you to pump and dump your milk, call your Lactation Consultant, reference Medications and Mother’s Milk, LactMed, or your local La Leche League Leader. It is HIGHLY unlikely that dumping your milk is necessary.

✔️ Most medications are safe to take while breastfeeding and pumping. Watch my YouTube video here https://youtu.be/df-BUWxtg_Y?si=J-Vpnn1AweAcTdEO

✔️ Ni****ne is not contraindicated. Actually it is safer for baby to breastfeed from a smoking mother than formula feed from a smoking mother. Even have a YouTube video on this one. https://youtu.be/GA8YS2yick8?si=FKxjoBoctuFVyAVh

✔️ Alcohol is considered compatible while breastfeeding and pumping. I explain this one in a YouTube video of mine. “Don’t Pump and Dump” linked here https://youtu.be/OgmdvJ8hr80?si=udN6SjBNltdoxh6W

✔️Surgeries and procedures (even dental) most often do not require any interruption of breastfeeding or pumping. Common sense here folks. Moms can have a surgical birth and have anesthesia and they breastfeed immediately afterwards. And these women are taking their prescribed pain medications while recovering.

Human milk and the benefits to baby are so powerful that it is so rare for their benefits to be outweighed.

Wishing everyone a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!

As we enter cold/flu/RSV season… here is a great visual of the power of breastmilk 💪🏻🤱🏻

A photo showing droplets of breast milk fending off armies of harmful bacteria in Petri dishes is going viral on Facebook.⁣
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The photo, posted by a biology student in England, features nine Petri dishes completely colonized with the bacteria M. Luteus, except in the center, where tiny puddles of breast milk have created what looks like “moats” of protection around themselves.⁣
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The student, Vicky Green, said she had similar results with Petri dishes full of e.Coli and the dreaded anti-biotic resistant “super bug” MRSA.⁣
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“The white spots in the middle are discs soaked in two samples of breastmilk,” Green wrote in the caption of her post. “See the clear bit around the discs ― that’s where the proteins in the milk have inhibited the bacteria!”⁣
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An article from YourPediatrician.com explains how this is possible:⁣
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“About 80 percent of the cells in breast milk are macrophages, cells that kill bacteria, fungi and viruses. Breast-fed babies are protected, in varying degrees, from a number of illnesses, including pneumonia, botulism, bronchitis, staphylococcal infections, influenza, ear infections, and German measles. Furthermore, mothers produce antibodies to whatever disease is present in their environment, making their milk custom-designed to fight the diseases their babies are exposed to as well.”⁣
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What’s even more impressive is that the samples of milk in the photos came from the mother of a 15-month-old and a 3-year-old, providing further evidence that breast milk continues to protect against illness long beyond infancy.

I love partnering with chiropractors who specialize in infant care and oral ties. Through one on one lactation support and excellent chiropractic care many of my clients have gone on to have successful breastfeeding journeys despite their baby having oral ties. Having a strong village of support during the postpartum period is essential 💕

WE REMEMBER
ALL THE BABIES BORN SLEEPING.
THOSE WE’VE CARRIED BUT NEVER MET. THOSE WE'VE HELD BUT COULD NOT TAKE HOME,
THE ONES THAT CAME HOME BUT COULD NOT STAY 👼🏻👣💕

Mamas with littles 4mo and up check this out!! I can’t recommend this gym enough and Miss Megan Crosby is simply the best 💕

BabyBees are back, starting September 7th at 9:30 am! This class is specifically designed to help our future gymnasts work on developing their motor and social skills! Join us for our weekly 30-minute class while spots are still open!
Sign up here: https://ow.ly/sxf950PwOSu

This is a great article about understanding sore ni***es from a fellow small business owner and blogger 💗

Understanding Sore Ni***es from Breastfeeding — Coasty Do you have sore ni***es from breastfeeding? We’ll go over all you need to know about the causes and how to prevent and soothe sore ni***es.

Happy World Breastfeeding Week to all of my past, present, and future clients 💕🤱🏻 you are all AMAZING and I couldn’t be more proud each and every one of you!

I am so thrilled to be a part of the amazing national Babies & Bumps event coming up on Sun 7/30 11am-4pm! Sooooo many great people, products, and presentations to look forward to! If you have any friends or family members who are expecting or brand new to parenting please pass this info along to them!

Register Here: https://babies-and-bumps.com/st-louis/

My fur baby Lena thinks she needs to help me with work today 🤣🤦🏼‍♀️🙄 I’m glad she approves of my office space LOL! Have a Happy Thursday everyone!

Wishing you all a Happy and safe 4th of July from my family to yours ❤️🇺🇸

Mama’s we have ALL been there and have felt this so deeply! Yet- we feel as if we need to prove that everything is GREAT and we are just consumed by the JOY of being a new mom even though that is FAR from the actual truth of what we are feeling deep inside.

My main focus when coming to a new clients home is making sure that Mama can be open with how she is truly feeling by giving her a chance to process all of her emotions in a supportive and safe space. Being able to talk openly about it and work through these feelings helps Mama be able to move forward with more confidence, validation, and resolve so she can truly focus on feeding her baby 💕🤱🏻

My friend messaged me after I had a baby, “how are you?” her message read.

I responded,

“It’s harder than I thought, some moments I’m swept up in the beauty of motherhood, others I’m dragging myself around in a coffee-stained dressing gown with unwashed hair.

I know people say to take some time out for me, but in this season of being so needed I don’t know how.
I’m more tired than I ever imagined, though I could trace their tiny features for hours, I could watch the way a sneeze crinkles their eyes and takes them by surprise.

But I also feel a little lost at times, yet they are a seed in my bones, and I have never been more found.
Some days I sit in shadows and other’s the light fills me up inside and together we grow and grow.

My body aches, from birth, for the girl I once was, for sleep, for their scent. The shower feels like a break, though I always feel hurried.

Makes no sense, does it?

Some days I feel as if I’m not achieving much and yet I am rushed off my feet. Years can pass through these four walls in mere minutes.
My mind is all over the place, I want to press pause and yet I am already in awe of who they’re becoming.

We’re still figuring this whole thing out together, and yet it’s like I’ve known them forever. I feel a new type of wholeness, of being complete, but some days I just feel empty,

does this make any sense?

I’d love some time alone, but I am entangled in them, and yet that’s how I want it. My heart would be fumbling around in the dark without them. That’s another thing I wanted to tell you.. I’ve never thought with my heart so much, I’ve never seen so much with it either.

I’m not ready to have visitors just yet, but I miss you, I really do.
Thanks for checking in.”

But I didn’t.

Instead, I told her we were great, my baby was simply a dream, and that we couldn’t wait to see her.
Then I hit send.

Jess Urlichs
Art: Art to Remember

If babe gets bottles but is still breastfeeding… I highly recommend this side lying technique. Not only does it mimic breast flow more closely but it also allows baby to pace themselves and control the bottle flow which will reduce discomfort while feeding and gulping of air💕🍼

Legendairy Milk on TikTok Here are some tips for side-lying bottlefeeding: ✨Elevate your legs to about 45 degrees ✨Start with baby lying on their left side with their legs pointing in the same direction they are facing ✨Baby's bottom is against your belly ✨Their top arm can be in front of them ✨Their bottom arm can...