Local Breastfeeding Resources Guide (Spring 2012)
We have just updated our Local Breastfeeding Resources Guide to reflect the current support groups, classes, hospital lactation offices and private consultants available in the Spokane/CDA region. Click the image below to download a PDF version of this 2-page flyer. We encourage you to distribute it freely to your clients, patients and friends.
We update this document about every 6 months to keep it current and include professionals new to our area or to the field of breastfeeding support. If you’d like to be added to this flyer, please contact us.
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Cloth Diapering 101
%!@& Happens. The question for new parents . . . how do you want to deal with it!? In the “old days” you used flat cloth diapers pinned around baby’s bum and lived with the leaks, messes, bulky vinyl pants and dunking diapers in the toilet. Mothers prevailed and along came disposable diapers…a parent’s best friend. [...]
Finding Friends & Support as a New Mother
We live in a world where families are separated by distance: some are voluntary, some are not. Some distances are small; some distances are thousands and thousands of miles. Whatever the case may be, you don’t realize how far the distance is until you have a child in a town where you don’t know very many people….and realize you are all alone.
I am no different. I grew up in New Jersey, and that is where my entire family still lives. Seven years ago, I moved to California (to have some youthful fun in the sun ☺ ), and I never really thought about whether I would stay 3,000 miles away from my family and friends, or if I would go back. Soon after I moved there, however, the choice was made for me when I met the man who would be my husband. After three years there, we moved here to Spokane and two and half years later I was pregnant. [...]
Birth Professionals Forum Tackles Breastfeeding
Last week was our summer Birth Professionals Forum—a quarterly meeting of birth professionals from across the region tackling our most pressing maternity care issues. The topic this quarter was breastfeeding and how to better support breastfeeding women in our community. In a room full of midwives, doulas, lactation cosultants, La Leche League leaders and WIC representatives we came up with several great ideas.
As part of this effort, Bloom Spokane created the Breastfeeding Resources Flyer which contains all of our local breastfeeding support professionals, classes, organizations and support groups. You are encouraged to print out as many copies as you’d like to hand out to friends, clients, patients or anyone else who might need support.[...]
