MaMa Mentoring; pregnancy thru preschool

11/09/2025

Love this feeding position.

11/08/2025

GROUP WILL BE ON BREAK UNTIL ON NOV. 25TH AND DEC. 2ND. Enjoy your family time. Thank you for making my year brighter.

11/08/2025

No two feeding journeys are alike. Each child's journey begins at conception and continues into adulthood. Come join us to chat about where you and baby started, where you are now and what your hope is for the future. Open to pregnant moms thru preschool moms no matter how you are feeding.

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11/05/2025

TENS units work.

AJOG Expert Review in Labor: Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic options for pain relief during labor - Transmission of pain signal from the uterus and birth canal to the brain (dotted red line) is blocked by the TENS stimulation (Blue line) http://ow.ly/oIc650NTqKu

10/27/2025

The advice parents get around when and how to start solid foods is so confusing. This is partly true because they rarely individualize it. Is your wee one exclusively breastfed, takes some formula or is exclusively formula fed? Each of these may mean taking a different solid food path. Are you limiting your own allergen intake because you are sensitive to dairy, soy, peanuts, or eggs? Is your partner allergic to anything? These can also impact your best path for introducing solids. Here is a good explanation of how breastfeeding impacts gut health and preparing the body to eat potential allergens.

10/26/2025

Co-Regulation is a term used by pediatric specialists. But what does it actually mean and how do we do it? And where does self soothing fit in? Co-Regulation begins in utero and continues throughout our lives. It isn't something we are doing only when our little one is having a melt down. It is something we are doing all of the time. It involves the brain and nervous system, plus hormones and physiologic changes too!

Let's get together and chat all about it at MaMa Mentoring.
Tuesday Oct. 28
10-12
Intimate Journey Birth & Wellness Center
#300
4251 S. Higuera SLO

MaMa Mentoring is a FREE mothering support group.

10/15/2025

Scientific research on the limits of human endurance confirms that pregnancy is one of the most demanding metabolic feats possible, as the sustained energy required to grow a baby over nine months forces the mother's body to operate at an elevated rate of approximately 2.2 times her resting metabolic rate—a level nearly equivalent to the physical ceiling sustained by elite endurance athletes, such as those running a marathon per day for several weeks. This comparison underscores the sheer, continuous intensity of pregnancy, highlighting it as the longest and one of the highest energy-expenditure events the human body can endure.

10/11/2025

I am the keeper.

I am the keeper of schedules. Of practices, games, and lessons. Of projects, parties, and dinners. Of appointments and homework assignments.

I am the keeper of information. Who needs food 5 minutes before a meltdown occurs and who needs space when he gets angry. Whether there are clean clothes, whether bills are paid, and whether we are out of milk.

I am the keeper of solutions. Of bandaids and sewing kits and snacks in my purse. But also of emotional balms and metaphorical security blankets.

I am the keeper of preferences. Of likes and dislikes. Of nightly rituals and food aversions.

I am the keeper of reminders. To be kind, to pick up their trash, to do their dishes, to do their homework, to hold open doors and write thank you notes.

I am the keeper of rituals and memories. Of pumpkin patches and Easter egg hunts. I am the taker of pictures, the collector of special ornaments, and the writer of letters.

I am the keeper of emotional security. The repository of comfort, the navigator of bad moods, the holder of secrets and the soother of fears.

I am the keeper of the peace. The mediator of fights, the arbiter of disputes, the facilitator of language, the handler of differing personalities.

I am the keeper of worry. Theirs and my own.

I am the keeper of the good and the bad, the big and the small, the beautiful and the hard.

Most of the time, the weight of these things I keep resembles the upper elements on the periodic table - lighter than air, buoying me with a sense of purpose.

But sometimes the weight of the things I keep pulls me down below the surface until I am kicking and struggling to break the surface and gasp for breath.

Because these things I keep are constantly flickering in the back of my brain, waiting to be forgotten. They scatter my thoughts and keep me awake long past my bedtime.

Because all these things I keep are invisible, intangible. They go unnoticed and unacknowledged until they are missed. They are not graded or peer reviewed or ruled on by a court. And sometimes they are taken for granted.

My husband and my boys are kind and generous and they love me hard. And this is by far the greatest job I have ever had. But sometimes being the Keeper is exhausting. Because you feel like you're doing it alone.

So to all of you who are keepers, I see you.

I know the weight of the things you keep.

I know the invisible work you do, which doesn't come with a pay check or sick leave, is what makes the world go round.

I see you.

And I salute you.

Shared with permission from Lucky Orange Pants