A flower for the Blessed Mother

We try to make it to confession weekly or every few weeks. I would like to go more especially with the anger and grumpiness in my home. However having six children and one felicity that can not sit (sensory processing disorder) makes it very difficult.

As usually Saturday we went to confession and felicity kept running off lighting candles etc....so my confession was short and sweet, the usual being grumpy or letting a "bad" word fly.
I took felicity outside (Sebastian still stays in the sling) and she was running around the fountains and holy statues.

She picked flowers and walked up and left her flower here....

Discoveries

Sebastian started walking a few weeks ago. Being a preemie he has been "delayed" in many ways. He is much smaller than any of my other children. However I have to say even though he is small I really have enjoyed carrying around a lighter toddler in the sling.

He is discovering so many things now out side of his sling...water is one of them, toddlers LOVE water. I just got this cute set from Discovery Toys  http://www.discoverytoyslink.com/esuite/control/product?PURCHASE_STATE=STANDARD&product_id=1674 of course we love all the DT toys (since I have been a distributor for years)

But he only spends a short time playing he is always in my sight and now toddles up to nurse.....

He also this past week walked out side for the first time. He was at the front glass door and began to cry....We opened the door and he walked VERY quickly outside. Yes he was naked....IT is so sweet and innocent when they are little.....

















As you can see he did a great job walking...

Bishop Galeone's talk part 3

Bishop Galeone's talk part 2

Bishop Galeone's talk. Part 1

End of World Breastfeeding Week 2010

This morning we attended the Third Annual Prayer Service for World Breastfeeding Week, at the Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche.
Our Bishop Victor Galeone, led the prayer service. His 'homily' was absolutely beautiful. I did record it on my iphone but not sure if it will upload it is like 20 minutes.

He talked about nursing in public, how natural breastfeeding is and that mothers should breastfeed anywhere. He talked about how sexualized our breasts have become. He told a story from long ago about a woman going up to recieve Holy Communion her baby began to fuss and she "reverently" lifted her blouse and nursed her sweet baby. He never said at anytime we should cover up or that it was not modest to nurse.

He talked about how Nestle went into the poor countries like Peru over 50 years ago lying to the mothers telling them it was "the best thing for your baby", and how science tries to improve but seems to take a step back.

He shared a sad story about his baby brother that died when he was 11 months old of pneumonia . How back then the doctors would not let his mother near the baby (for fear of contamination) and she wanted to just nurse him. He said his mother said she knows if she could have nursed him he would have lived. It brought back all my experience I went thru in the NICU when Sebastain was born. Just shows the strong instincts a mother has.

I would like to share this scripture he read many of you already know it;

The Psalms read today:
139, 71,

Reading from;
1 Peter 2:1-4

Gospel
Luke 1:46-55

Cantacle~Isaiah 66:10-14a

Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her,
all you who love her;
Exult, exult with her,
all you who were mourning over her!

Oh, that you may suck fully
of the milk of her comfort,
That you may nurse with delight
at her abundant breasts!

For thus says the LORD:
Lo, I will spread properity over her like a river,
and the wealth of the nations like
an overflowing torrent.
As nurslings, you shall be carried in her arms,
and fondled in her lap;

As a mother comforts her son,
so will I comfort you;
in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort.

When you see this, your heart shall rejoice,
and your bodies fourish like the grass.

Us with Bishop Galeone

Rustic Alter

The Program

Bishop Victor Galeone

Group Shot (minus me)

My original signed by Marian Thompson, one of the founding Mothers of LLL

I am told she only signs the Original edition.....

A photo of the first edition of the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Womanly Art of Breastfeeding 1958

A quote from the Blue Womanly Art of Breastfeeding....

Mothers have happily nursed their babies since the time of Eve. Breastfeeding is a natural and unique system of supply and demand which best serves mother and baby. Breastfeeding has not become complicated;only our attitudes toward it have created problems was to help solve these problems that The Womany Art of Breastfeeding was written~

World Breastfeeding Week August 1-7

As most of my fellow nursing moms know this week is World Breastfeeding Week, August 1-7. I will be sharing several breastfeeding facts this week....But to begin this week (which was Sunday) I am posting a favorite prayer:


Prayer of a Mother to Our Lady of La Leche


The Shrine of Our Lady of La Leche is the first shrine ever to be dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the United State, in 1620. It has a statue of the Virgin Mother nursing the Infant Jesus. See the website for Mission of Nombre de Dios for more information about Senora de la Leche y buen parto (Our Lady of the Milk and Happy Delivery. The following prayer is asks Our Lady's intercession to be a good mother.

To You, lovely Lady of La Leche, and to your Divine Son, do I now dedicate this little baby whom our Father in heaven has given me. Grateful for the trust He has placed in me, I beg you to obtain for me the physical and spiritual graces I need to fulfill my duties at every moment. Inspire me with the motherly sentiments you felt during your days with the Child Jesus. Make it possible for me, in imitation of you, O Lady of La Leche, to nurse my child to perfect health. In all things help me to follow the example which you, as the perfect model of all mothers, have given to me. Let my family mirror the virtues of your Holy Family of Nazareth. Finally, I commend to your loving care all the mothers of earth, in whose hands He has entrusted the souls of His little children. Amen.