The 12 Days of Breastfeeding

Download a copy of the 12 days of breastfeeding and share a little bit of holiday cheer!

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Breastfed Baby Poo

One of the things I've been making for the past few breastfeeding classes is breastfed baby poo. I based this recipe on an Amy Spangler recipe that I found online.

Breastfed Baby Poo

• 1 tsp. yellow mustard
• 2 tsp. sesame seeds (I ran out of sesame seeds and my sister suggested chopped up brown rice)
• 1 Tbs. cottage cheese
• enough milk to make a good consistency
• meconium - molasses
• transitional - baby poo, tiny bit of molasses, teeny tiny bit of green food coloring

Chop up the rice if you've used all your sesame seeds for other things.

baby poo

meconium

When I say a teeny tiny bit of green, I mean it. A little bit goes a LONG way. With the molasses and the food coloring just add small amounts until you get it the color you like.

transitional poo

Contact Ideas and NIP Tips

While I was working last night I was wishing I knew everyone else's little tricks they use to keep up with everything. Here are a couple of things I do:

The Post-it.

I have a post-it note on the corner of the blue sheet for every client. It helps me see at a glance if it is time to contact them and how they are feeling about breastfeeding. I write down when their 1st and 2nd trimesters end so I know how often I should be calling them. I also put the date they are 37 weeks along if I know the client wants to breastfeed - especially if it is a first child. This way I can remind myself to remind them to do a nipple check. As I call them, I cross out the date and write down when I need to contact them again. The mark in the bottom corner lets me know what they are thinking about breastfeeding. I put an 'o' for wanting to breastfeed, an 'x' for not wanting to breastfeed or a '?' for undecided.

The Calling Card & Class Sticker

Every time I mail off a note or some breastfeeding information I attach a calling card with my phone number and email address in hopes that they will hang on to the card. I use address labels with the date of our next class on them if the client will still be pregnant at that point. If not, I use cute stickers from noodle soup.

I made a flier with tips for nursing in public and now that I've figured out how to share PDF files, I'll post it here:

NIP tips - front

NIP tips - back

let me know if you have any tips to add!

This is awesome!

This is awesome! It may take me awhile to get use to how it works but I think it is going to be great .

Christy

August Class & WBW Celebration

Monday night was the breastfeeding class for Wayne county. We sent out special invitations hoping to draw more people to the class. Our average is 4.3 people per class and last night we had 7 attend!

We set up a table full of extra pamphlets that we don't usually put in our folders, goodies for them to take and books to look at.

We had yummy food. We need to start having healthy snacks at our classes instead, but since this was a WBW celebration as well, we had not-so-healthy food. Anyone have some really good healthy snack ideas? (looking back, I said the same thing about the last class...)

We had balloons! It's not a party without balloons!

Everyone got a folder full of pamphlets and handouts, a world breastfeeding week button, a few breastfeeding stickers, a name tag, a piece of paper to take notes on, a pen to write with, an evaluation form to fill out and a little card that they can fill out if they'd like more information about anything specific.
We played the breastfeeding treasures game, which is always really fun, and then drew names out to give out more prizes. Everyone ended up winning something!

We have a box that they can drop their evaluation forms in.

We have our doll, Aiden, who we demonstrate positioning with. I encouraged the moms to gather around me while I demonstrated last night. I felt they could see better and were asking more questions because it didn't feel so formal.

We also had some fake poo. I don't remember which website I found the recipe on, but it said it was an Amy Spangler recipe:

• 1 t. mustard
• 2 t. sesame seeds
• 1 T. cottage cheese
• For meconium—use molasses
• For transitional stool—use molasses + baby poop

we felt it was a bit too thick and could use a bit of watering down (perhaps with milk).

Shirts for Breastfeeding Class

Kristen thought it would be nice if we had special breastfeeding shirts for our breastfeeding class. We stopped by Cato's and bought two cute orange shirts and this is the design I'm thinking about putting on them:

I am breastfeeding