lactation/feeding support (in person and virtual)

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with a combined total of 14 years breastfeeding my four kids and over 20 years empowering parents, i’m jumping up and down (with a supportive bra on) ready to help you and your baby. do you need latching and positioning help? is your baby getting enough milk? have you checked for a tongue or lip tie? just want to check in and make sure things are on the right track? maybe you need someone experienced to talk to and help reassure and empower? no matter what your feeding goals are, i'm here to help.  please reach out. you are not alone. the cost for lactation/feeding support is $75/hour. XO ( . Y . ), amy

 

breastfeeding quotes

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"babies suck."

-amy brooks murphy

 

“Mother’s milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for babies because it is nature’s perfect food.”
- How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor – Mendelsohn

 

“The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.”
- Ashley Montague

 

“The La Leche League succeeded by reconstructing the neighbourly networks which medicine had tried to discredit. League members began to trust and rely on one another. Their confidence in their intuitive connection with their children grew; and for both of these reasons, they found it less necessary to rely on doctors, except in emergencies.”
- David Cayley – CBS Radio

 

“No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose.”
- Tolstoy – War and Peace

 

“He saw a girl working about the stove, saw that she carried a bay on her croked arm, and that the baby was nursing, its head up under the girl’s shirtwaist. And the girl moved about, poking the fire, shifting the rusty stove lids to make a better draft, opening the oven door; and all the time the baby sucked, and the mother shifted it deftly from arm to arm. The baby didn’t interfere with her work or with the quick gracefulness of her movements.”
- John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath

 

“…A baby nursing at a mother’s breast… is an undeniable affirmation of our rootedness in nature.”
- David Suzuki – Toronto Star

 

“Lady madonna baby at your breast
Wonders how you manage to feed the rest.”
- The Beatles

 

“I think that i shall never see,
a poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
against the earth’s sweet flowing breast.”
- Joyce Kilmer

 

“A little child born yesterday
a thing on mother’s milk and kisses fed.”
- Homer

 

“A pair of substantial mammary glands has the advantage over two hemispheres of the most learned professor’s brain, in the art of compounding a nutritious fluid for children.”
- Oliver Wendall Holmes

 

“Dost not see the baby my baby at my breast, that sucks the nurse asleep?”
- Shakespeare – Anthony and Cleopatra