Mamas Milk & Kisses

03/21/2025

Hey friends, family, and fellow birth workers!

I’m supporting **Texas HB 136**, a bill that would make lactation care a covered benefit for families across the state. As lactation specialist pursuing my IBCLC, I’ve seen firsthand how essential access to lactation support is for parents and babies. Unfortunately, many families can’t afford these critical services, leading to unnecessary challenges in their breastfeeding journeys.

HB 136 would change that by ensuring all families have access to the care they need. Please join me in supporting this important legislation by adding your name in support. Every signature makes a difference!

https://comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c310

Thank you for standing up for Texas families and helping make lactation care accessible to all!

The purpose of this form is to aid Texas residents in electronically submitting public comments to House committees on measures or matters included on public hearing notices.

10/11/2024

the only experts on mothering is mothers ❤️‍🔥

10/09/2024

Enjoy! https://youtu.be/GcmOmkKfuPA?feature=shared

10/09/2024

I’m a small part of a group called
✨Radical Moms Union✨
which is a true grassroots movement of moms against predatory formula marketing. Our campaign against the predatory marketing by a specific and popular formula company created so much momentum that we got a zoom call with the CEO of the formula company today and our leaders in the group were able to share their stories and why we are fighting against this marketing.

We have some birth workers, doulas, and lactation consultants in the group but the biggest title we all have is we’re all MOTHERS. Our group is leading with our biggest role which is being moms and that title alone is what makes us experts. The call was incredible to witness and brought me to tears at several points to see what can happen when we join together against these corporations that only see us as $$$$ signs.

I’ve never been more proud to be a mother and to stand with other mothers than I have today 💪🏻💕

07/17/2024

Officially listed on Birth Belongs To Women doula directory on their website! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

https://www.birthbelongstowomen.com/doula-mentoring-1

07/15/2024

the key to enjoying your pregnancy is to put into practice what God already calls us to do… S U R R E N D E R.

pregnancy is not meant to be cured or managed, it’s meant to be surrendered to.

God is the creator and the gifter of life, we need only to be still.

Pregnancy is a waiting season, a sowing, a planting and awaiting the harvest.

psalm 30:5 “Weeping may endure for a night… but joy is coming” 🌱

This is your reminder, to surrender in your pregnancy 🩶

06/17/2024

Have you ever heard of the term MATRESCENCE? 🦋

Sadly, most of us have not even though it is an integral word to describe the extreme life event women go through when they become a mother.

We are constantly bombarded with messages about postpartum depression and anxiety but yet never any mention of the term that attributes entrance into motherhood as a new stage of development for a woman?

Matrescence can be compared to adolescence in the fact that it requires grace and adjustment as you navigate through it. We give grace and patience to teenagers evolving through puberty yet we offer “she must have postpartum depression” when a mother is going through one of the biggest life events she could ever experience?

The world says we “lose our identity in motherhood” which is untrue. We are going through matrescence and the constant push to “go back” to a stage of development you have surpassed will leave you feeling inadequate. I encourage you to not believe the lie that your identity is lost,
rather you are learning a new one 🦋🦋🦋🦋

06/13/2024

forget about what the doula lists on her website…
do you feel a connection with her?

I want anyone who desires to have me as a doula to feel a genuine connection with me.

I want you to feel safe to share such special moments with me.

postpartum is such a vulnerable time of your life. can you see me crying and laughing with you?

you are entering motherhood for the first time or maybe just a new phase of motherhood, who do you want to be there while you figure it all out?

choose the doula that you’d invite over to dinner with your family

the one you can cry with ❤️‍🔥

06/12/2024

message me to book + any questions 🩶 (central tx)

let me be your village while you do the most important job: snuggle your baby

04/05/2024

I’m an what’s your superpower?

I want to bring awareness and highlight those of us who have suffered or are suffering with HG: Hyperemesis Gravidarum ❤️‍🩹

Many Hg Moms lost their babies to this disease 💔

Hg is often ignored or trivialized which is a great injustice to those of us who have been torn apart by it

To all of the HG Survivors, thank you for fighting for your babies life when you felt like you were losing yours 🙌🏻

If you are currently facing an HG Pregnancy please reach out to Hyperemesis Education & Research - HER Foundation for resources and support as well as if you are facing PTSD from past HG Pregnancies 🫶🏻

04/05/2024

birth leaves no woman as it found her

it transforms & transcends us

just as new life is created, the mother is also created 🌷

04/04/2024

motherhood demands to be felt…

so let yourself feel 🪞

growth into the mother can only happen in the feeling, the aching, and the stretching ❤️‍🔥

04/03/2024

You’re pregnant.. Now What?!

Here’s a list of some things to research during your pregnancy.

Take your power back in your pregnancy instead of passing off the responsibility on a provider and going in blind and passive.

Your Pregnancy, Your Baby, Your Birth🕊️

Take Radical Responsibility ❤️‍🔥

Empowerment in pregnancy sets you up for Empowerment in mothering 💫

03/05/2024

so honored to learn from the incredible Kallie Caton and all the inspiring doulas and midwives apart of BBTW🦋🪩🌷

Just joining a transformative doula mentorship and sisterhood that is rejecting the system and taking
back women’s right to the mystery of birth because:
Birth Belongs To Women. ❤️‍🔥

I cannot wait to start serving women in the Central Texas area in the near future (TBA). A BBTW doula holds the outlook that a mother is the only authority and I hope to find those of you who align with that same belief for your dream birth 🪻

Bringing back this instinctual ancestral right to birth and the love, touch, emotional depth, and support that only a woman from your “village” can bring🧺

As a Traditional Doula I want to serve women and just walk alongside them while they
give life to their babies because:

I’m with Women, Not the System 💫

02/14/2024

Dr. Nils Bergman’s presentation on KangarooMotherCare method through skin-to-skin and zero seperation for mothers and their newborns is free and he is going to be live on the call answering questions! Super excited and this is beneficial to any birth worker, lactation specialists, doula’s etc, or just any moms who want to learn the neuroscience and benefits of moms and babies who practice attachment 🩶

✨Why the first 20 hours of a baby’s life are crucial

✨The neurosciencece of uninterupted skin-to-skin

✨What happens in the brains of parents and babies after birth

✨Why this science has the power to transform maternity care

at https://microbirth.teachable.com/p/15feb?fbclid=IwAR1bs4YnQAKM9wZgalupRoOiZzx9cEx5g7C3KYbaHykVA92iSS3L44-tjKc_aem_AYb5Ib9-6Z-fH2ZRfccjmLmEp36144o-bsz1G9SjSpb-2Pvi4ee_1BuElUXwQeVapLIion

Live Masterclass with Dr Nils Bergman about skin-to-skin for optimal infant brain development

12/01/2023

postpartum : following childbirth or the birth of young

physically , emotionally , physiologically, spiritually you are forever changed.

the stretch marks within as we were stretched to capacities we didn’t know we could survive and yet we did 🩶

your baby changed everything… all the way down to your very cells

you don’t lose yourself in motherhood, you find yourself 🕯️

your postpartum era is forever more; embrace the mundane and the bliss of this new mind, new body, new soul

no longer the maiden; now the mother

postpartum is forever 💫💫💫💫

11/29/2023

promoting breastfeeding ≠ formula shaming.

Formula is a great alternative when breastmilk is not available and I’m thankful that if it is the only option that it is accessible.

However, breastmilk at the breast is still the ideal source of nutrition for infants.

Promotion of breastfeeding (the ideal nutrition for infants) does not mean that we are shaming formula (the accessible alternative).

💫💫💫💫💫