Eating For TwoWritten by Meri Raffetto RD
You provide your baby best nutrition every day by breast feeding. Much of nutrition your baby receives from breast milk comes from your body’s stored nutrients. So don’t forget – your nutrition is important too! Even while you are nursing, your baby is becoming familiar with different flavors of food you eat. Follow these nutrition tips and set your baby up for good health that will last a lifetime!1.Avoid Low Calorie or Fad Weight Loss Diets. Limiting variety and amount of foods your eating can decrease much needed nutrients for your baby’s growth and development. Work on eating a healthy, balanced diet and keep your regular exercise regime with Baby Boot Camp! Keep in mind that nursing moms burn about 500 extra calories a day just from their milk production! This combined with your regular exercise and healthy eating will help you return to your pre-pregnancy weight. 2.Variety. Try to eat a variety of nutrient dense foods such as fruits, vegetables, lean meats, high fiber carbohydrates, and high calcium foods. 3.Complex Carbohydrates. Avoid white bread, rice, and pasta and opt for their whole grain counterparts. Look for 3 or more grams of fiber per serving on food label. Complex carbohydrates provide important B-vitamins, minerals and fiber.
| | Woman Thou Art GREATWritten by Lisa Bartley-Lacey
"Be not afraid of greatness, some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them." -William Shakespeare You are GREAT! No matter what aspersions have been cast upon you by either yourself or by others, you were born for GREATNESS. Greatness is within you Woman. It is true. Deep within every woman alive is seed of awareness of her queenhood. In her soul every woman knows that she is infinitely more than prime cuts of meat that popular culture attempts to dissect females into. I know this because I live this. As a child I was never accepted. I was called ugly, useless, "black" & stupid. I was offspring of a domestically violent household. My mother eventually escaped with my siblings and I to live on welfare and government cheese in Detroit City. By 15 my virginity was stolen from me by a 24 year old child rapist. By 16 I was drinking and trying to forget myself. By 17 I was suicidal. By age of 18 wounded by a difficult childhood and troubled teenaged years, I got pregnant with first of my 3 children. I was a mess...yet there was GREATNESS within that mess. GREATNESS is within you too. In order to be useful to you, I had to go through a process. This process was very painful. In this process I might have perished. It continues. This process is more commonly known as "life." My demise, however, though supported by this world, was not sanctioned by Universe. By God I am still here. You could have died before reaching and reading these words, yet you are still here. We are here! We have arrived in this moment for a reason and with a divine Purpose. When you learn... Teach When you get... Give -Maya Angelou, Our Grandmothers When I was just a little brown baby girl hiding and cringing in closet listening to my mama being beaten, GREATNESS was within me. When I was just a skinny little 15 year old Black girl in Detroit City being physically threatened, emotionally annihilated and spiritually devastated, GREATNESS was within me. I was a Queen, but I did not know it yet. When I wallowed in despair weeping as a young adult in wake of self-destruction and negativity, GREATNESS was within me but I did not know it yet. When I cried alone as a poverty stricken unwed teenaged mother, GREATNESS was within me but I did not know it yet. As I bore weight of being a divorced single parent of three children thumbing through my food-stamps, GREATNESS was within me but I did not know it yet. While lying up under benighted males in search of love and validation as a lost woman, GREATNESS was within me but I did not know it yet. As I walked across stage to collect my BA then my MA degrees, thinking that they were legitimizing me, true GREATNESS was within me, I thought I knew but I did not know true GREATNESS yet. God knew it though. My Purpose is to proclaim Creator's gift of GREATNESS within YOU as I reveal it within myself.
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