Embraced Lactation & Postpartum Care

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Mothers are the center of their families and communities. As immigration enforcement policies separate families and destabilize already marginalized communities, mothers are losing critical access to healthcare, family, and community support.

Access to care and support systems that uphold the health, safety, and dignity of mothers is fundamental to maternal health. These disruptions are putting vulnerable women at greater risk of poor maternal health outcomes.

Every Mother Counts firmly upholds that all people, everywhere, deserve access to safe, respectful, and equitable maternal healthcare, no matter their immigration status, or where they call home.

Learn more at the link in bio

Breastfeeding / Chestfeeding Families please join me .shoshana for lactation support beginning Tuesdays, June 17th! .shoshana
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We would love for you to join us 💓 Reserve your spot at https://www.theshoshana.com/local-classes

I recently began working at .shoshana , Philadelphia’s first postpartum retreat. We are hosting an open house on June 6th and would love for you to join us to learn more about what we offer.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Shiya

**You’re invited to a Perinatal Professional Open House at THE SHOSHANA, Philadelphia’s only postpartum retreat, on June 6th from 6:30-8:30 pm!

This event is open to anyone working with pregnant, postpartum, or trying-to-conceive individuals to tour The Shoshana, meet our staff, learn about our mission, services, and perinatal partnership program, and ask any questions they may have about The Shoshana. ***

**To RSVP, please email [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you there. Feel free to share this information with others who may be interested in joining. **

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Beginning Tuesday, May 14th
Baby & Me Yoga (8-week series, no class 7/2)

Baby and Me Yoga focuses on restoring balance and health to the physical body through asanas (postures), relaxation, and breathing techniques. Shiya hopes the practice of uniting mind, body, and spirit, and sharing this special time with your baby or toddler (up to 24 months) creates a peaceful, stress-free, and fun hour that will last long after class.

This is an opportunity to connect with a supportive community of parents of babies and toddlers. Stretch and strengthen the muscles that need the most TLC. Classic poses — from upward-facing dog to cobra — open up the shoulders and chest you rely on for rocking, feeding, holding, and cradling your baby.

* Week 1- Seat Postures and Breath Work
* Week 2- Standing Poses
* Week 3- Chest Opening
* Week 4- Forward Bending
* Week 5- Hip Opening
* Week 6- Reconnect with Your Core:
* Week 7- Let’s Flow: Putting it all together into a full-body vinyasa flow class.
* Week 8- Rest and Restore

Please feel free to bring a blanket and any toys for your baby. This is a supportive, nonjudgmental environment for parents. Please feel free to feed or comfort your baby as needed. The benefits of the class go beyond movement; sharing the space, the breath, and supporting one another is equally as important to moving your body!

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In 1894, babies were ushered into an age of abstemious blandness when the pediatrician Luther Emmett Holt published his enormously influential guide, “The Care and Feeding of Children.” A child’s first non-milk food should be gruel, Holt instructed in one edition. Beef juice could be offered at five or six months if the infant was sickly and anemic, at ten or 11 months if she was hardy and robust. Next might come coddled egg whites and a few sips of orange juice. At 18 months, some prune pulp or baked apple could be allowed, along with stale bread; at two years, baked potato.

In the past two decades, though, another approach has begun to emerge. According to this method’s proponents, babies do not need to be served baby food, because just about any food can be for babies, and the more variety the better: sour, sweet, and savory; crunchy and chewy; tender and tough. This way of feeding babies has come to be called baby-led weaning. “As the name suggests, it requires following a baby’s lead, which some adults find challenging,” Alexandra Schwartz writes. “Babies are, well, babies. What do they know that we don’t?” Swipe to see some babies delighting in their own dietary decisions, and read more about the method at the link in our bio. Photographs by for The New Yorker. Prop styling by ; food styling by .