Candice James IBCLC

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

03/24/2026

My personal recipe:

1) Listening and learning about how you want your feeding journey to look.

2) Connecting that to the science of lactation and talking about how that all works with your vision.

3) We come together and create the best plan for you ❤️

And something that is SO important: you can change your mind! So I love sharing with my clients that you don’t have to be locked in to anything, we can try a plan and if you don’t like something about it, we adjust and move forward.

Feeding journeys are not linear.. and I rarely give the same thing twice because everyone is different truly.. things ebb and flow, and YOU evolve in your postpartum journey, I am always here for it.

This is why if you are my actual Client, you’ll probably heard me joke that you are stuck with me as long as you want to be. 🤣

Im in it to win it with you, and while feeding is my jam, YOU my friend are the most important jam 🌷🌻

Good morning and Happy Monday you guys! I am so honored and excited to be leading the Breastfeeding Support Group at th...
03/23/2026

Good morning and Happy Monday you guys!

I am so honored and excited to be leading the Breastfeeding Support Group at this Wednesday ✨😍

This is a FREE event, this Wed at 11:00am 💕

To join you must RSVP, visit link in bio 🥰

Wishing you all a wonderful week ahead 🦋

03/20/2026

Why are we like this right 🤣

Immediately when our baby is upset we almost always start scanning or blaming ourselves.. is it our milk? The way Im holding them what am I doing wrong send help I suck 🙃

When really, babies are often a p**p or a toot away from calmer greatness & then they are looking at us like whats the big deal 🤷🏽‍♀️🤣

03/20/2026

🐯 The “tiger in a tree” hold — aka my magical hang out hold 🙂

How it can calm many newborns almost instantly:

• Gentle abdominal pressure may help move trapped gas and ease discomfort

• Activates the calming (parasympathetic) nervous system through pressure, containment, and movement

• Mimics the in-utero environment, offering a familiar and secure sensation

• Supports immature digestion by encouraging more comfortable movement of gas and contents

• Provides deep sensory input (pressure + movement) that helps organize the nervous system

• May reduce reflux-related discomfort in some babies

• Encourages full-body relaxation and decreased muscle tension

• Can help interrupt escalating crying cycles before they intensify

• May support more coordinated feeding after baby is calm and regulated

• Supports state transitions from fussy → calm → sometimes even sleep

This isn’t just a “hold”… it’s nervous system support, digestive support, and regulation — all in one simple position.

Tell me… have you tried this yet? 🤍

I have worked with so many brilliant, capable, Type-A parents who quietly felt like breastfeeding was the first thing in...
03/12/2026

I have worked with so many brilliant, capable, Type-A parents who quietly felt like breastfeeding was the first thing in their life they couldn’t “figure out.”

If you have a Type-A personality and breastfeeding felt or feels harder than you expected… you are not alone.

I see you ❤️

Your mind is wired to optimize, plan, and control variables… and that can feel incredibly disorienting when breastfeeding on demand, I hear you.

But here’s the truth no one says out loud enough:

Breastfeeding isn’t a test of your discipline.
It’s an invitation into trust.

Trusting your body.
Trusting your baby.
Trusting a process that was never designed to be perfectly controlled.

If this was your experience, please know something important:

Nothing about this challenge means you failed or are failing.

In many ways, it means you were learning an entirely new language, one spoken through biology, hormones, and instinct instead of checklists and timelines.

And that kind of learning takes softness, patience, and time.

You are not doing it wrong.
You are simply learning a new rhythm 🤍

03/11/2026

Anyone else?

Kind. Empathetic. Not one to get into drama. Helpful. Takes initiative.

All of these traits are so him and to hear somebody share that with me who is with him so many hours a week and they see all of these traits too, it melts my heart. ❤️

03/11/2026

Being a source of support at the La Marathon is going down as one of the bestest experiences!

A Mother's Haven 💫💜

03/11/2026

Its Canva for my business print goodies for me right now 💜

Not an ad by the way!

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