Breasting feeding benefits

I always hear stories that mother is the best food and that mothers should breast feed. Over the course of the Month of May since Mother's Day is coming up I'm going to explore just how supportive companies/jobs, family and communities are to mothers that choose to breastfeed their babies.

Pregnant in America (Among other things)

Leave Your Sleep (2CD)


So I just recently watched the documentary Pregnant in America (http://www.pregnantinamerica.com/) I must say I was moved and enlightened. I wanted a home birth and still want a home birth and am currently looking into my options to do so because well as of yet I haven't been that satisfied with the treatment of pregnant women by the health care "professionals" nor by the corporate American machine for which I work. Since I've been pregnant I've been threatened with firing, have almost lost my home, have been ignored by my doctors as to the problems I've been experiencing, and have all but given up on people's treatment of pregnant women. I never knew that people ignored a woman's feelings about discomfort or pain or questions that they may have. Just recently my doctor has taken steps towards "listening" to my concerns as a first time mother, however, previously I was treated as if I had no idea what I was talking about. They were very cavalier and callous towards my thoughts and concerns as if every pregnant woman experiences pregnancy the same way. LETS GET THIS CLEAR! Every woman is NOT the same so every pregnancy, every birth, every symptom is not the same. SO will all the people out there that think this is so please stop!

Now with that being said Pregnant in America was a very informative documentary. I learned a lot and as I stated have already in some form experienced the horror of the medical professionals. They are there for you the "patient" and yet they treat pregnancy and eventual child birth as some sort of inconvenience. Being a first time mother they almost called me a liar to my face when I would tell them something is wrong. Everything became NORMAL! I mean everything. I threatened a miscarriage twice, this was considered normal. I have been sick morning noon and night and sometimes evenings and mid-conversation, this was NORMAL. I would wake up (if I fell asleep at all) and my entire body would be in pain. I couldn't move. My bones would hurt, my abdomen would feel like I was being stabbed I couldn't walk, stand, sit, lay, drive or anything without some sort of pain.

Now don't get me wrong I'm usually a healthy woman. I used to kickbox, I did yoga, tai-chi, I walked I'm a vegetarian/vegan. I am natural and pay very close attention to my health and eating. So when I started experiencing a very unhealthy pregnancy this was odd to me. I thought I was doing something wrong. But with out telling me what was wrong people would just tell me it was normal or to suck it up (in so many words) and get back to work or life or whatever I should be doing because hey being pregnant does not change your life right? WRONG!!!! I thought that people would take into consideration that hey a woman being pregnant is a delicate time in her life. WAS I EVER WRONG!? You would think that I made it all up. Like oh I'm not really pregnant I just want some attention lol. Nonetheless, I was and am determined to enjoy the growth and gestation of my babies. My seed and bean are growing more and more every day. My health is getting a little better and I'm getting back to meditating again.

It's amazing to me though how women are treating here in America when they are having children. Since when has this experience become some burden on society? Since when has being pregnant and giving birth become some unnatural process? So I'm looking into having a home birth or as natural as possible in a hospital as possible because I too found it alarming the rate of c-sections that women are having in the US. I just found it odd that the first moments of holding your child, latching on, nursing, crying together is taken away from so many women and they can never get that back.

Of course my concerns and risks are high. I mean I'm having twins how successful could I be with having a home birth with two babies? Especially with all the health problems I've had thus far? I know for sure I don't want any drugs and I don't want to be induced or anything of that nature, however, I will keep you posted as to the birth plan for Me the Seed and the Bean!
Blessings abundantly!
Empress

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Baby Wearing

There are tons of wombmen getting into wearing their children again. The facts are we as wombmen are going back to what seems natural to us more and more and baby wearing is just one of those examples. WE are listening to our spirits and the voices of wombmen who have come before that are telling us what is natural is not foreign. For far too long child birth and rearing has been made to be some handicap or burden that should be medicated or treated as an inconvenience; something unnatural and uncommon, when in fact babies have been born without medical intervention or interference since the beginning of births. I think mother earth was even born unto the universe without and epidural LOL! That's another discussion. Any who, so here is a video by a sistren that is very informative. She shows you how to wrap your baby and the benefits of baby wearing. The facts about the child's development as well as their social skills.

Pregnant and Fashions

I consider myself a pretty fashionable wombman. I love to look beautiful, rather it be in my jeans that fit your booty just right or that blouse that shows your skin in the most flattering way or that color of yellow or orange that makes you smile from the inside out. I just have one problem pregnant fashion. I've been doing pretty well thus far and I must say that there have been strives in making pregnant women look beautiful in the last few years (Shout to Heidi Klum for being one of the most fashion foward pregnant woman).

I just want to still look 28 I don't want to look like I'm a beached whale and I don't want to surrender my identity to do so. I'm young and vibrant and well I like the way yellow looks on my skin and this is the perfect time for me because It's SPRING YEY!!!


So I have an Idea. If you would email me (seedsbeans@gmail.com) all your photos of beautifully fashionable women while pregnant I'll post my favorites. I'll start with some celebraties and art photos just to get started.


THE BOHO~BOHEMIAN~HIPPY~LOW MAINTAIN LOOK













This look is just so easy and still quite beautiful when worn properly. I Love the long flowing gown type wear and the sandles just gives that bollywood feel.



























The Belly OUT Full Throttle !!!
Now I'm not a fan of this look unless done right. I mean let's be clear everyone should not have the belly out it's just not a good look but some or able and brave enough to pull this off!!! As for me well NO, NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! But you can't deny the glow of a woman enjoying her baby belly :)




NOW I WANT YOU ALL TO SEND ME YOUR PREGNANT FASHIONS, THE GOOD AND THE BAD! I still have 4 months to get so help me out here cause I'm going to get big LOL
Life is love ~Emp

A love Deep inside

I have a love inside that grows

Everlasting as my cup overflows

Never knew I was be so thrilled to be kicked

Never knew I would be grateful for the sick mornings

and afternoon naps

mid morning snacks

and sharp pains in my back

but I got a love for the pain you bring cause I know you're growing

I know you getting bigger and quicker

eating more cause I'm thicker

my hips are spreading my breast as swollen

Miracles manifesting inside my womb

and I assume

that your eyes will slant slightly like mine

that your fingers will stretch out and it's me you'll find

I'm forever transformed by the love we have

I dream of simple things like your first laugh and bath

It's funny how in one moment you got from girl to wombman from wombman to mother

And I know our love will never be like another

But I treasure you

The 7am kick in the bladder

the pure exhaustion as I get fatter

You are my Seed and Bean and we're in this together

as Mother I am your warrior, your rock, your sheppard

The Serenity of Morning

I am never more amazed at the wonders of life. I'm now five months in and can feel my seed and bean and let me tell you they are active. They are my balance, as I can feel one of them in my abdomen and the other right underneath my heart. It's amazing but I keep hearing Lauryn Hill sing nothing even matters because well it doesn't.

You know when you realize that motherhood is here you change. This change takes place at different stages for different wombmen but for me I think it's happened multiple times so far. I felt like a mother the moment I realized I was pregnant; I felt like a mother the first ultrasound, the first heart beat and now that I can feel life moving around in me it's like you have a different raspect a different approach to everything you thought you had planned for yourself.

I want so much for them. I read to them, and sing to them, they are my poetry audience and we listen to every type of music from Miles Davis Bitch's Brew (shout to Auntie/JahMother Earth CrySiS) to The Eagles In the City. Yesterday I was on a Stevie Wonder mood and then all of a sudden Les Nubians started singing to my heart and so we went there. And they started moving and fluttering and I knew then my babies were going to love the arts as much as I do.

Although everyone has their predictions as to what they are all different combos of boy/girl , girls, boys their health has been the only thing that has mattered to me and I've taken that and run with it. I am taking back my joy. I even listened to Anita Baker's you bring me joy LOL. I know that I'm a good sistar, friend, queen, person and mother and well I've placed nothing but positive in the UnI-verse so I know that comes back. You know how people say you feel love for your children when you don't even know them well that is so true and I vow to do everything in my life forever for them. I live love and laugh for my children, my Seed and Bean.

Mama (Yeyo)loves you