Brave Belly

And a baby midwife is born ❤️ Thank you for allowing us to come back and start learning again in person with each other! It’s incredible to be back, and to be learning to catch babies 🌸 I am thrilled

Future Certified Nurse Midwives/Women’s Health NP’s! Grateful for my cohort and for those who are paving the way! I was delighted to see all these beautiful people in person instead of Zoom ❤️ life is going back to normal and I couldn’t be happier

Loving this

In a zoo in Ohio, a female gorilla was born and raised in captivity, got pregnant and had a baby gorilla. On the day she had her baby, she didn't know what to do. She had never seen another gorilla nurse, and she had no concept of breastfeeding. Sadly, the baby gorilla died.

When she became pregnant again the gorilla's keeper called La Leche League and volunteer nursing mums went to the zoo to nurse their babies in front of the pregnant gorilla. At first the gorilla ignored them, but as her delivery date grew closer she became very interested. When the baby gorilla was born the mother gorilla forgot all that she'd learned and started to freak out. The keeper quickly called the La Leche League and another volunteer rushed over and slowly showed the momma gorilla what to do. The gorilla watched, mimicking the moves step by step until, with a nearly audible sigh of relief, the gorilla looked down at her chest and saw her baby feeding happily for the first time.

We are no different - breastfeeding is a skill, and sometimes it just helps to watch another mom breastfeed. Thank you to LLLN.I. for this post.