LLL of South Bend Meetings and COVID-19

Hello Mamas!

At the next morning meeting we're going to explore our feelings about the transition to becoming a Mother, and managing those early days and months with baby. This new role can surprise us, rock us to our cores, and bore us silly, all in the space of an hour. It's intense, learning your baby's signals, needs, and routines, not to mention trying to maintain relationships and at least some basic hygiene ;)

How have you found this transition? What has helped you through it? Join us on Tuesday to share these thoughts and others.

And we always make space for any other breastfeeding concerns or questions you may have!

Looking forward to seeing you Tuesday, November 28th at 10:15am.

Harris Branch Library

51446 Elm Road

Granger, IN 46530

Note: This is the last meeting at Harris Branch Library. We will be meeting at Bittersweet Branch Library starting in January. There will be no meeting on December 26th.

Here are two of my very favorite blogs on the subject of motherhood--ones I go back to when I need support:

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/simcha-fisher/to-the-mother-with-only-one-child

http://www.askmoxie.org/2012/09/free-but-not-cheap.html

Here's an interesting new look at reframing and understanding postpartum depression:

http://claudiamgoldmd.blogspot.com/2014/12/is-postpartum-depression-really.html

Our identity shifts as we become mothers:

http://www.lllusa.org/who-am-i-now-motherhood-and-identity/

And some tips for well-meaning loved-ones about how to support you in those early weeks:

http://themilkmeg.com/twelve-positive-supportive-things-to-tell-a-new-breastfeeding-mum-frequently-and-with-a-smile/

A fascinating look at the real changes our brains undergo when we become mothers:

http://m.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/what-happens-to-a-womans-brain-when-she-becomes-a-mother/384179/

And lovely reminders to cherish our changed bodies after childbirth:

http://www.mothering.com/articles/loving-your-postpartum-body