Nurse Corri

Last Wednesday we hosted an amazing event in Lodi! The first ever Maternal Wellness Fair!!! I am so lucky to be apart of the start of something great in our local perinatal community! ❤️Providing access and awareness to maternal and family care in our area was our goal, and I think we achieved that! So proud of what we have accomplished and hope to see you in the Spring! 💐Thank you so much to everyone who joined us, and especially for hosting our event! 🤗

✨I am so excited to announce our Fall Maternal Wellness Fair in Lodi, Ca! Whether you are currently pregnant, thinking about growing your family, navigating postpartum, or interested in learning about resources for someone you love - this fair will be a great opportunity to meet your local pregnancy and postpartum support specialists! 🤰🏽🤰🏻🤰🏿👶🏻👶🏽👶🏿

We will have a few local pop up shops, complimentary refreshments, and a free raffle🎟️

You won't regret coming out to meet this beautiful community of providers! 🤗

*Please note: The play area at Ginger Bugs will be closed during the event. Adults only, babies in arms welcome.

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Please join us for a class Birth Ball Basics™ ! This clinic is being held in person in Sacramento, Saturday Sept 16th, 10am-1pm.

🔵This 3 hour clinic is a complete prenatal Birth Ball prep clinic for pregnant people for use in home, birth center or hospital. I truly LOVE this class and you will learn invaluable information.

This class is for pregnant people in all trimesters of pregnancy. You will learn techniques using the ball in pregnancy, labor, birth, and in the postpartum period:
-relieve achy lower backs
-train your body for your labor time
-strengthen your core and your pelvic
floor
-learn effective laboring down techniques
-laboring positions to open your pelvis at different levels
-stretching out tired muscles
-birthing positions using the ball and peanut ball for support
-open Q and A time for any pregnancy, birth, and newborn questions

You can sign up here ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://form.jotform.com/corri4tfminstructor/4tfm-class-registration-form

Or you can scan the QR code!

✨All current Haven for Birth clients will get 10% off class!! Please contact us for the code.

Hope to see you there! 💪🏼🔵

I am so ecstatic to be partnering with Sierra Moms and have become a member myself! Please join me for a Q&A Happy Hour at Mas Taco in Folsom, August 11th at 5 pm. 🤗 All expecting or recently delivered Mamas, please come with your questions or just a little time away from the kiddos! Hope to see you there!

I am so ecstatic to be partnering with and have recently become a member myself! Please join me for a Q&A Happy Hour at Mas Taco in Folsom, August 11th at 5 pm. 🤗 All expecting or recently delivered Mamas, please come with your questions or just a little time away from the kiddos! Hope to see you there!

Happy World Breastfeeding Week!! 🤗

✨Lactation and feeding has always had a special place in my heart when starting as a nurse a long time ago. It now means even more to me having breastfed my own daughters. That’s why I became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, to help as many families as I can reach. 👩🏻‍⚕️

✨Every single feeding journey is individualized and different from one another. When I started my own journey, I had to remind myself to practice what I preach and it definitely had its own challenges. 👶🏻

✨Feeding a child is SO hard. It tests your patience and definitely brings mixed emotions. There is self doubt, worry, joy, happiness, pain, determination, and much more! It is 💯 a full time job.

✨It is almost impossible to drown out outside opinions and yes it may be well meaning advice, but it is not always the best. As parents we need positivity and encouragement, not other people telling us what we are doing wrong.

✨No matter how much you breastfed your child, whether it was for one day or one year, you FED your child the best liquid gold ever and no one can ever take that away from you! YOU breast/chest fed!! This includes exclusive pumping and mixed feeding. 🍼It is an amazing accomplishment and you should be proud!

❤️To all the parents out there, you are doing an amazing job! 💪🏼Keep going, you got this, these days when the kiddos are small don’t last forever! ❤️

This picture is of myself breastfeeding Brooklyn (2019) and Charlotte (2021) during “The Golden Hour” right after birth. 🥰

“Many find that their breastfeeding experience is not what they originally expected or planned for. But even if your journey takes an unexpected detour, you are still a breastfeeding parent. Every drop of breastmilk that your child gets is beneficial. Every moment at the breast that your child gets is beneficial. Breastfeeding is not all or nothing. Everyone has a different breastfeeding journey.”

-Kelly Bonyata, BS, IBCIC
KellyMom.com
(Making More Milk, and edition by L. Marasco, MA, IBCLC & D. West, BA, IBCLC)

✨We all have our own path. YOU ultimately decide what is best for YOUR child! Support is SO huge and a key to success. So is getting a solid education before hand and resources. If only we all had a pocket IBCLC with us every time we started a new breastfeeding journey with our little ones. We will keep trying to shout out from the rooftops, share and help as many families as we can reach! 🤗

We had a wonderful first “Nursing Huddle” 🤗 Love helping create that village for mamas. 👶🏻 It was great meeting everyone! See you next month! 👋🏻

🍼Milk supply … it is one of the biggest concerns a human producing and feeding milk to their child has.🍼

I definitely think our society has really stigmatized breastfeeding and the supply we are supposed to make for our child. Then, if we don’t make enough we are a horrible parent. 👶🏻

There are SO many factors that go into producing more of that liquid gold. If our hormones and body do not cooperate, so the supply dips. The stressors of life absolutely do not help either. But believe it or not, the majority of us ARE making enough!!

We need to stop putting pressure on the moms that don’t make enough milk, and quit making the parent that has an oversupply feel bad too!

We all are never perfect eaters. I confess sometimes I have too much of the occasional McDonald’s french fry… so we need to stop bullying into one way to feed our child or the other. In the end WE decide how we want to feed our child!

We also need to educate…human milk is SO friggin amazing. I don’t know how this stuff isn’t sold on more black markets. Let’s encourage parents and help support them on all of the highs and lows of feeding their child. ANY amount of human milk will benefit the baby for the rest of their life. It’s hard being a parent in general and it’s all about enjoying the little things, and not listening to the “Jonses.”

Thanks for listening to my rant 😂

🎉I am now officially offering 2 new classes!!!🎉

Journey of Childbirth

A 1.5 hour quick course for those that would just like a general quick run down on the childbirth process, including belly birth (cesarean section)!! The class will include:
- Preparing for labor and delivery
- The various stages of labor and birth
- Pain management options
- Birth positioning techniques
- Strategies to create a supportive birth environment
- And more!

**** Next class online!
August 13th (11:00 am - 12:30 pm)

Breastfeeding Basics

This comprehensive 3 hour course will share invaluable insights, practical advice, and evidence-based strategies to help guide you through your breastfeeding journey. Feeding a baby can be hard work! This class will help you feel more prepared and provide realistic expectations with breastfeeding.
We will go over many subjects including but not limited to:
- Human milk composition & benefits
- Basic mechanics of breastfeeding and latch
- Bottle feeding
- Pumping
- Manual expression
- Storage guidelines
- And more!
You will feel prepared and empowered no matter how you feed your baby.

**** Next class online!
August 13th (1:00 am - 4:00 pm)
and
August 15th & 17th (6:30 pm - 8:00 pm)

To register click the link here…
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https://form.jotform.com/corri4tfminstructor/nurse-corri-class-registration

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📣Announcement 📣
I am SO excited to share that I will be working with in Sacramento as their in house IBCLC! Very thankful for this opportunity and looking forward to serve our birth community by providing more access to care!

We will also be starting our “Nursing Huddles” led by myself. If you are body-feeding your child and have questions, concerns or just would generally like to connect with others who are in a similar space in life. We will be meeting at Haven every last Tuesday of the month at 10:30am. Hope to see you there!