Beyond The Bump Education provides Prenatal courses, postpartum education and lactation support for
Empowered Birth Prenatal Course
Private 1:1 Sessions (in person in New Brunswick)
Lactation Education and Support
Child Safety (CPR) Workshop
12/24/2025
So you got ChristMASTITIS! (Everyone last year thought I called it Christmas-titties… accurate but not quite what we’re talking about here)
Don’t beat yourself up!
The holidays are busy and you’re doing your best.
Swipe to see what you can do based on the newly released guidelines from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
More from the protocol:
👉Minimize breast pump usage (if possible)
👉Avoid the use of ni**le shields
👉Wear an appropriately fitting supportive bra
👉Avoid saline soaks, castor oil, and other topical products
👉Decrease inflammation and pain (use Ibuprofen & Ice)
👉Treat associated ni**le blebs
👉Treat underlying breastmilk oversupply
👉Utilize therapeutic ultrasound
👉Reserve antibiotics for bacterial mastitis
👉Consider probiotics
Friends don't let friends get mastitis!! Send this to your breastfeeding friends!
Questions? Let me know!
-Lara
12/23/2025
You’re going to want to check back for Part 2: What To Do In Case You Get It
Mastitis on a regular day is awful🤒
But mastitis when you're travelling or visiting family around the holidays.. even worse!
Let's avoid this happening to you this holiday season!
1. Plan where, when, and how you will feed baby if company is around or you go out.
2. Feed baby or pump as often as you usually would. Avoid engorgement as much as possible.
3. Avoid stress and unwire bras, drink lots of water, & get lots of sleep.
4. Pay attention to baby’s early feeding cues.
Save this and send to any nursing friends you have!
Friends don't let friends get mastitis on Christmas! 🎄
Questions? Let me know!
-Lara
12/22/2025
Have an expecting or new parent left on your list?!
We have gift cards available!
These make for a great baby registry gift and can be used for all of our services!
>Prenatal classes (Online or in person)
>Lactation consults
>Prenatal 1:1 consults
>Birth and postpartum support
Give the gift of a confident and empowered birth and postpartum period.
Email or DM me to grab one!
Lara
12/22/2025
Merry Christmas from all of us at Beyond The Bump 🤍
This year held so many conversations, quiet wins, hard moments, new beginnings, and families trusting us during some of the most tender seasons of their lives. We’re deeply grateful for every message, every appointment, every course taken, and every story shared.
As we head into the new year, our hope stays the same: to keep showing up with grounded, evidence based, human support for pregnancy, birth, and feeding.
2026 is bringing some big things for us to support you better! So grateful for it all!
Wishing you warmth, rest, and moments that feel like home this holiday season.
Lara & Fam
Charlene and Tori
12/20/2025
So you got ChristMASTITIS! (Everyone last year thought I called it Christmas-titties… accurate but not quite what we’re talking about here)
Don’t beat yourself up!
The holidays are busy and you’re doing your best.
Swipe to see what you can do based on the newly released guidelines from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
Watch the video all the way through and here’s some more from the protocol:
👉Minimize breast pump usage (if possible)
👉Avoid the use of ni**le shields
👉Wear an appropriately fitting supportive bra
👉Avoid saline soaks, castor oil, and other topical products
👉Decrease inflammation and pain (use Ibuprofen & Ice)
👉Treat associated ni**le blebs
👉Treat underlying breastmilk oversupply
Friends don’t let friends get mastitis!! Send this to your breastfeeding friends!
Questions? Let me know!
-Lara
12/19/2025
DELAYED CORD CLAMPING IS SAFE!
- ��better outcomes for baby
- ��more iron stores
- ��higher breastfeeding rates
- ��SO MANY BENEFITS
Stop with the BS info! This is either negligence, ignorance (which is a bad look for an OBGYN) or coercion.
All I can say is... enough already!
12/17/2025
The American Academy of Pediatrics now warns that sleep training before 12 months can disrupt attachment and nervous system regulation. The concern is not parenting style but biology. Babies’ brains are still wiring safety signals through proximity.
In the first year, infants cannot self-regulate. Their nervous system relies on co-regulation with caregivers. When stress rises, closeness to a parent helps settle the amygdala, lower cortisol, and signal safety. Room-sharing is a natural way to provide this support.
Sleep training too early teaches babies to manage stress alone before their brains are ready. Calm is not learned by isolation under stress. Instead, infants need repeated, responsive soothing so regulation becomes internalized over time.
Parents who previously sleep trained are not failing their children. They acted on the information available in a culture that often prioritizes independence over developmental readiness. Understanding the science changes how we view early sleep strategies.
This research emphasizes that proximity wires safety. Babies learn calm through closeness, not isolation. Early care that meets stress with support builds secure attachment, emotional regulation, and lifelong resilience.
12/17/2025
Breastfeeding is natural but that doesn’t mean it comes naturally.
Have a watch, save this so you can come back to it and try these tips at your next feeding sessions.
If you’re struggling with breastfeeding - whether it’s with supply, latch, you name it, pleaseee get support sooner rather than later!
We’re here to support you.
We can come right to your home in Fredericton or you can visit us in office in Fredericton and Saint John.
What latching questions do you have?
Charlene
12/16/2025
It’s finally happening… Birth Coaching spots are OPEN! 🎉
(And trust me… they tend to disappear faster than a postpartum snack stash 😂)
If you’re expecting in 2026 and want an expert in your corner to guide you through every step of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum - this is your sign to book your Meet & Greet.
The benefits of having a birth coach + doula in your corner are honestly incredible (like… shorter labours, fewer interventions, more confidence, and support you can actually count on).
Availability is limited (and some months are already FULL), so now’s the time to grab your spot!!
Questions? Send us a message! We'd love to support you on your birth and postpartum journey. 🤍
-Lara and Tori
12/15/2025
LETS TALK DUE DATES📆
The majority of the time, the date you are given is calculated based on your last menstruation or by early ultrasound (between 7-12 weeks). These are an estimated due date. The truth is, many factors impact the accuracy of these calculations, such as varying menstrual cycle lengths or errors in measurement on ultrasound. Baby doesn’t know that they are supposed to make their arrival on the date you’ve been given. Evidence tells us that most pregnancies, will go over the given due date.
Having an expectation that baby will come at or before this date, can lead to so many emotions. You may be flooded with disappointment, frustration, feeling “so done,” and more. We like to suggest that families plan to go 1-2 weeks over their given date to help reduce some of these negative feelings.
Be packed and ready by 36 weeks but expect to go into labour between 41-42 weeks - most of you will. Not only does this set more realistic expectations, but it encourages feelings of calm and safety, which allows your body to be more rested, relaxed, and optimize your oxytocin. 🤗
Oxytocin is naturally produced when we feel safe, loved, and happy. This hormone is helpful all throughout your perinatal journey but towards the end of pregnancy, it is specifically helpful in starting labour. 💓
We’d love to help you learn more about supporting your body through this journey! Now booking prenatal and birthing support for 2026. 🤓🩷
Tori
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Beyond The Bump Education is owned and operated by Lara Proud, a Registered Nurse, Heart & Stroke CPR Instructor, Child Passenger Safety Technician (Car Seat Tech), and La Leche League Leader. She has dedicated years of her career to helping and serving those who are pregnant, breastfeeding new parents, and babies.
Beyond The Bump Education has been designed to “empower new parents through education”. Our goal is to build new and expecting parents a support network to thrive throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period.
See our website for a list of current services and classes available!
A little about me:
I am a Mom to a very busy boy and a tireless dog, a wife, and have a Bachelor degree in Nursing with more than 7 years of relevant experience as a Registered Nurse.
Beyond The Bump™ Education is a result of all my work experiences, but especially because of my beginning in nursing. I started my career with a volunteer position nursing in the Dominican Republic with an organization that works with impoverished Dominican people and Haitian refugee communities. During a pop-up clinic I was helping an OBGYN with, we came across a little boy who was only 6lbs 2oz at nearly 3 months old; Jameson quickly became the reason I was there. We brought him to the hospital, had testing done and found out he was severely anemic and allergic to the formula he was being given. Every second day I would go to their village, give him iron and do teaching (as best I could in my broken Spanish unable to speak Haitian Creole) with his 16 year old Mom. Jameson grew quite quickly and is 7 years old this year!! Because of him, a new prenatal program was developed and has graduated hundreds of women through it- Jameson’s Mom is one of those graduates!
This experience, along with my own pregnancy and postpartum, have been huge motivators for this dream of mine to come alive! I love to teach and I firmly believe that all parents should have access to reliable information that empowers them to make educated choices for themselves and their children.
Beyond The Bump™ Education will be providing prenatal and postnatal education; safety workshops focusing on children and families; CPR (BLS) certifications; and be helping connect new parents with the resources they need to be successful.
