New Beginnings Needs Writers!

Dear Readers, New Beginnings is seeking contributors and stories, especially for our upcoming National Breastfeeding Month blogs! We are currently still in need of posts for Indigenous Milk Medicine Week, Workplace Lactation Week, and Deaf and Hard of… Read More

Things I Wish I Had Known About Breastfeeding

At La Leche League meetings, parents often share lessons they have learned along their nursing journeys. If an expectant parent attends a meeting before their baby arrives, they have a distinct advantage. Listening to mothers and families whose… Read More

Gaining Peace and Power Through Breastsleeping, Part 2

By Jamie P. Last week, I shared my difficult postpartum journey after delivering my first beautiful child. I had just attended my first LLL meeting and started to realize I needed something different in my breastfeeding journey. I… Read More

Gaining Peace and Power Through Breastsleeping, Part 1

By Jamie P. Editor’s note: May is Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month. Jamie shares her story with us this week and next about how finding a sleep solution that worked for her family helped improve her postpartum experience… Read More

Poems From The Past: Part 5

Editor’s Note: The poetry in this week’s blog post come from older issues of La Leche League News, a bimonthly LLLI publication for members, firstpublished in 1958. The name was changed to New Beginnings in 1985. New Beginnings… Read More