20
Aug

Get your “breastfeeding game on” with this unique new book

 

Breastfeeding with Comfort & Joy 

This book is the perfect blend of images and information.  The concept is unique–use photos of real mothers and babies doing just that…breastfeeding with comfort and joy.  These images are so reassuring, so inspiring, the fact that they are also instructional feels almost subliminal.  Author, Laura Keegan, RN, F.N.P. covers the basics like latch, positions, how often to feed baby, engorgement and the like, but she also covers breastfeeding twins and, our favorite, the importance of skin-to-skin contact.

This is a beautiful book and would make a wonderful gift for a new mother.  It is available only through the author’s website and blog

04
Aug

Booby-Trapped, Life-saving Devices

It happens everyday.  From the subtle and subliminal messaging that occurs when formula companies get your name off a baby shower registry and send you coupons for formula while you are still pregnant, to the far reaching social discomfort and disapproval breastfeeding mothers experience when they try to breastfeed their babies anywhere but in the privacy of their own home. 
*Booby-traps* are everywhere for the breastfeeding mother-baby, but if  Best for Babes  has anything to say about it, that is going to change!  Just read their mission statement:

“To help moms beat the “Booby Traps” the cultural & institutional barriers that prevent moms from achieving their personal breastfeeding goals. To inspire, prepare & empower™ moms. To give breastfeeding a makeover and give moms the solutions they need to make it work!”

This new organization’s website is chock full of great information about breastfeeding, but mostly, we find it inspiring and celebratory snd just plain FUN.  Check out Best for Babes instructions for new moms to ensure they are ready to “Get Your Best Game On, Girlfriend!” 

What Booby Traps have you experienced and how did you overcome them?

24
Jul

A Blog is Born

Well here it is… the new Baby Place Midwives & Birth Center website.  Much like a baby, this website has been gestating a very long time.  A vision of ours for several years now, the final creation was a fantastically fun undertaking and we are thrilled with the result.  And much like the joyous announcement of a new baby, we are pleased and proud to finally launch this site.

We want to thank so many of our Baby Place families for sharing their private moments with us so we could share them with you.  All the photos on this website are of real Baby Place families (except one–but the dad and mom are brother and sister-in-law to two other Baby Place families and we couldn’t resist).

We are grateful to the professional photographers who agreed to share their talent with us by allowing us to use the photos they took of a few of our families over the years.  Much thanks to Kam Taylor who has blessed us with her photos in our birth center, took early photos of our center and who has created cherished memories for many Baby Place families through her portraits.  Thank you to Lindy English who brought her amazing eye and spectacular lens to capture our new and updated birth suites so we could share them with you.  Thanks as well to Diana Palmer of  Yan Photography  and Katy Sharratt for allowing us to use the images they took of two of our Baby Place families.   

Thank you also goes to birth doulas, Kyndal May, Jennifer Clover and Sheila Taylor for capturing those cherished moments in births so that the family will have those memories forever, all while providing amazing labor support at the same time.

Like babies, parenting, and life, this website is ever-changing.  We will constantly be updating…sharing information, posting photos and announcements, so, if you are a Baby Place family, and you have a favorite professional photographer we invite you to have them contact us to share a photo of your family in our Families Gallery.  We also invite Baby Place families, and their birth doulas to submit a testimonial or photo.  We will post new photos and birth stories or testimonials periodically along with the latest news, events and relative research and information so please, stop back and visit and sign up for our so we can stay in touch!