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Candice James IBCLC

IBCLC & Mama hoping to help you feel grounded, empowered and inspired in your postpartum journey🌻AKA your baby feedin’ bestie! 🥰

10/28/2025

A Mothers Haven in Encino is hosting their first ever “Mom’s Holiday Glow Up” 😍

It will be held on Saturday, November 1st from 12noon-4pm.

Show up for the GLOW up 💫🤩🦋 You deserve it!

10/01/2025

THERE IS A SCIENCE BEHIND WHY SWAYING WITH YOUR BABY IS HEALING AND CALMING FOR BOTH OF YOU ❤️

When you gently sway back and forth with your baby, you’re not just rocking them. You are engaging one of the oldest, most primal somatic healing practices known to humans: rhythmic movement as medicine.

🌿 For You:
• Rhythmic motion activates your parasympathetic nervous system, lowering heart rate, relaxing muscles, reducing cortisol.
• Gentle repetition creates “bottom up” healing, sending the message to your brain: I am safe.
• Oxytocin (bonding), dopamine (reward), and endorphins (natural pain relief) rise, shifting mood, energy, and emotional regulation.
• The micro engagement of core, hips, and spine supports postpartum recovery while restoring proprioception (your sense of where your body is in space).
• Swaying reanchors you in your body after birth, central to somatic healing when trauma, anxiety, or overwhelm have created disconnection.

🌙 For Your Baby:
• Rocking mimics womb sensations, activating neural pathways of safety and comfort.
• Their immature stress response is regulated by rhythm: heart rate slows, breathing deepens, muscles soften.
• The vestibular system (inner ear balance & coordination) is stimulated, laying groundwork for rolling, crawling, walking.
• Close contact during swaying wires in secure attachment: baby learns, “in motion, I am safe with you.”
• Repeated rhythm helps shape their developing brain, synchronizing motor, sensory, and emotional systems.

💞 Together:
• Your nervous systems coregulate, borrowing each other’s calm.
• Shared rhythm creates entrainment, your bodies sync in a primal dance that predates language.
• Eye contact, warmth, and synchronized breath embed the message: we are safe, we are connected, we are whole.
• This daily act isn’t small, it rewires stress pathways, builds resilience, and strengthens your emotional and physical bond.

If you are ever having an off moment for latching, stand up, sway and deep breath.. reset.. after some moments, try again.

In these moments, both of you are reminded: safety, love, and connection live right here ❤️

10/01/2025

HELLO GORGEOUS OCTOBER 🍂

It is my very own birthday month and even more special to my heart, the birthday of my sweet daughter.

In honor of, how about some October baby and postpartum fun!

October babies get TWO birthstones: opal and tourmaline 💎

They have two flowers too!: marigold and cosmos. 🌸

October is month of the Libra (me) ⚖️ and Scorpio (my daughter) 🦂 vibes

Interesting thoughts:

Fall babies may get a tiny immune boost thanks to mama’s late pregnancy sunshine ☀️

October is one of the busiest birthday months- hello New Years love 😍

Halloween babies get a built in party theme forever that they will most likely either super love or be majorly annoyed by👻🎃

October is a month for Postpartum Magic..

Cooler air, cozy walks, warm drinks 🍂

Baby wearing through the corn maze at the pumpkin patch anyone?? My absolute fave 🥹

Home made pumpkin seeds are the perfect postpartum fuel

Cozy fall newborn photo shoots 😍 Hello flannels and boot weather- also my absolute fave..

Shorter days with extra morning sunlight helps baby’s rhythm ☀️

Watching the leaves fall..

Toddler painting activities with crunchy leaves..

Outdoor concerts?? Farmers Markets??

For me.. October is the month I start to come out of my cave lol when many people love to get out in the summer, I prefer my indoor AC lol

Did I miss any October facts or October feels for you??

09/29/2025

Thought this trend would be fun 😃

And I also of COURSE love being a part of your amazingly beautiful journeys 😍

Are we twinning on any of these?! Lol

09/29/2025

This quote triggered a thought for you guys about SURRENDERING IN POSTPARTUM (Feeding Edition❤️)

Surrender, does not mean giving up.

It means giving your nervous system a moment to calm, ground, reset, pivot if needed.

With breastfeeding, I have noticed sometimes my client feels a HEAVINESS that they need to make a decision instantly. Examples: Do I pump or feed at breast?? Should I release the ties or not?? Should I bring in formula, should I sleep a stretch (Im so exhausted), but will my milk supply suffer??! Should I wean?

It is too too much and guess what? We cannot make a sound decision when our mind is zig zagging and clouded and overwhelmed in a sea of hormonal pressures ❤️

So I have started to incorporate a certain flow and formula that I wanted to share here with YOU!

🌿 The Surrender Formula

Pause → Breathe → Ground → Clarify → Choose

1. Pause
Stop the swirl. Instead of rushing to decide, give yourself permission to pause. This interrupts the urgency spiral.

2. Breathe
Deep, slow breaths cue the nervous system that you are safe. This brings oxytocin online and quiets cortisol.

3. Ground
Connect with your body: place a hand on your chest, feel your feet, or hold your baby skin-to-skin. This anchors you in the present.

4. Clarify
Ask yourself: What matters most in this moment.. my baby and I feeling relaxed and secure, my rest, preserving supply, my mental health? This clears the fog of “shoulds.”

5. Choose
From a calmer place, make the next one decision, not the whole future. Remember, no choice is final, and you can pivot again tomorrow. Feeding journeys can evolve, they do not need to be written in stone.

✨ This flow reframes surrender as empowerment: you’re not giving up, you’re creating space to reset your body and mind so your decisions come from clarity, not panic.

💌 Save this for when your brain feels foggy and your heart feels heavy. You are not alone.

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