Lactation & Legacy - A 3-part antenatal course in breastfeeding.
An event facilitated by Ali Woodhouse
Midwife • International Board Certified Lactation Consultant • Certified Healing Birth Practitioner
Earth Alter and Cacao Ceremony with Special Guest Natalie from Sanctum Cacao & S P E L L B O N E S
Transforming maiden to mother, ooophf!
It's big, wild, and overwhelming.
As are the expectations from ourselves.
The sense of needing to protect our peace simmers beneath the surface.
Often, the priority becomes getting to know what birth may look like, focusing on navigating the powerful uterine contractions, our physiology working at bringing forward this little soul we've have been protecting within our womb space.
From the minute we are "social media official", our pregnancy becomes a beacon for the algorithm, and information overload ensues, as does the expectation to have all of the things, be all the things.
In the overwhelm and eagerness to meet this brand-new human, introducing ourselves to the language of feeding our newborn can often move to the bottom of the to-do list.
LACTATION & LEGACY
This is an invitation to gather in circle as a journey of self-discovery in the heartspace of transformation and motherhood.
This is not a birth skills series but a 3-part series and discovery of the language of breast|chest feeding.
Series is offered on a sliding scale for sustainability of the facilitator and guest host & accessibility for attendees
Spaces are limited.
What to expect for Part 1. The Weave
a journey in honouring The Maiden
- emotional | spiritual changes with self during transformational time of pregnancy
- physiology & anatomy of breastfeeding
- introduction to the communication between the infant feeding dyad
What to expect for Part 2. Nectar, manifesting the Mother
- continuation of the emotional | spiritual changes with self during transformational time of pregnancy
- composition of breastmilk
- what to expect in the early hours and days
- hand expressing and feeding positions
What to expect for Part 3. Ancestral (Connecting the Crone)
- emotional and spiritual connection with your treasured matriarch
- Matriarch story - the threads of ancestral feeding journey
- Support people and roles
- trouble shooting position and attachment