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The natural way

Breastfeeding your baby should be the most natural thing in the world, and people often assume that everything will go smoothly. However, in reality, many mothers find that breastfeeding is not as easy as they thought it would be. However, there are many things that you can do to make breastfeeding a success and a pleasure for you and your baby. Taking time to relax and enjoy each other, eating a healthy diet with plenty of liquids, fresh food and nutritious snacks, getting as much sleep as possible, asking for help when you need it – all these are things which will help to establish a healthy breastfeeding routine.

Follow these simple breastfeeding tips to make sure you continue to promote a positive breastfeeding experience:

• Drink lots of water (8 glasses a day)
• Put your feet up whenever you can. Regular rest is important for healthy milk production.
• Eat a healthy diet containing mostly fresh (preferably organic) foods free of artificial preservatives, colorants or flavoring.
• Avoid caffeine, alcohol, smoking (including second-hand smoke) and other drugs
• Don’t give up! Putting your baby to the breast – even if there is no milk flow – will help to stimulate lactation over time.
• If little to no milk flow is a problem try Nature’s Milk Drops to naturally help with production.

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Modern research has shown that breast milk is the perfect nourishment for babies, as it not only contains all the nutritional requirements in ideal proportions, but also provides protection from disease and illness in the form of antibodies from the mother’s own immune system.

Not only is breast milk the perfect food for babies, it also comes ready for use (no mixing!) and requires no sterilizing of bottles and far less risk of contamination. In addition, babies that are breastfed for the first 6 months of their lives are far less likely to develop allergies. There has even been research to suggest that babies who are breastfed go on to develop a higher IQ than those who are not. Breastfeeding also provides the perfect opportunity for bonding between mother and baby and has the added advantage of helping the mother to shed those extra pounds she has collected during pregnancy! The list of benefits to mother and baby just goes on and on!

-MOBS

Ohh Momma!!! Today is your day to get adored, appreciated, and most of all loved.  So of course I will have to give a shout out to my beautiful MOM To Be Shirley and the best MOM on the planet Grammy JOY.  I love you both!!!

Mothers Day was originally conceived by Julia Ward Howe after the American Civil War as a day honoring (in her opinion) the inherent pacifism of mothers, Mother’s Day now simply celebrates motherhood and thanking mothers.  Mothers often receive gifts on this day.

Mother’s Days are celebrated on various days of the year in different countries because they have a number of different origins. One school of thought claims this day emerged from a custom of mother worship in ancient Greece. Mother worship — which kept a festival to Cybele, a great mother of gods, and Rhea, the wife of Cronus — was held on March 15 to March 18 around Asia Minor.

In most countries, Mother’s Day is a new concept copied from western civilization. In many African countries, Mother’s Day has its origins in copying the British concept. In most of East Asia, Mother’s Day is a heavily marketed and commercialized concept copied straight from Mother’s Day in the USA.

Julia Ward Howe wrote the original Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870, as a call for peace and disarmament. An excerpt follows:

From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: “Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.”
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…

Howe failed in her attempt to get formal recognition of a Mother’s Day for Peace. Her idea was influenced by Anna Jarvis, a young Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858, had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers’ Work Days. She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.

Jarvis’ daughter, also named Anna Jarvis, would, of course, have known of her mother’s work, and the work of Howe. Much later, when her mother died, this second Anna Jarvis started her own crusade to found a memorial day for women. The first such Mother’s Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908, in the church where the elder Anna Jarvis had taught Sunday School. Grafton is the home to the International Mother’s Day Shrine. From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by some states beginning in 1912. In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother’s Day.

Here is a nice little poem that sums it all up.

I Said a Mother’s Prayer for You
Author Unknown

I said a Mother’s Day prayer for you
to thank the Lord above
for blessing me with a lifetime
of your tenderhearted love.
I thanked God for the caring
you’ve shown me through the years,
for the closeness we’ve enjoyed
in time of laughter and of tears.

And so, I thank you from the heart
for all you’ve done for me
and I bless the Lord for giving me
the best mother there could be!

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That’s the News and I’m otta here….  HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO EVERY MOTHER OUT THERE….

WITH LOVE,

MARK