Dear Readers,

New Beginnings would like to encourage you to share your breastfeeding, human milk feeding, and parenting stories. Your perspectives and experiences can provide encouragement and information to other readers. Personal accounts published in the New Beginnings blog also serve to educate and inspire families and breastfeeding supporters. Learning about the joys and barriers families experience in their lactation journeys offers  relatable ways parents might celebrate successes and overcome challenges.

Plus, did you know you can earn gift cards writing for New Beginnings? Every contributor to the blog is entered into quarterly drawings to earn gift cards. If you become a regular contributor, your chances increase!

Are you wondering what you might write about? Check out the  ideas below! Topics include but are not limited to the following:

• Birth experiences
• Human milk feeding accounts (breastfeeding, chestfeeding, supplementing, exclusive pumping, etc.)
• Gentle discipline
• Recipes/nutrition
• Book reviews
• Self-care through parenthood
• Funny human milk feeding anecdotes
• Sweet things your nursling has said
• Family activities for various ages
• Balancing work and parenting (especially stories about specific jobs)
• Travel tips (traveling with little ones, pumping on the go, storing human milk, etc.)
• Raising siblings (tandem nursing, nursing a newborn while having an older child at home, etc.)
• Family relationships (partners, extended family such as grandparents, dealing with criticism, etc.)
• Lactation challenges (mastitis, low milk supply, oversupply, premature birth, illness of parent or child, allergies, weaning, nursing manners, etc.)
• Co-parenting/visitation/divorce
• Human milk feeding from the lens of a support person (partner, grandparent, etc.)
• Role of La Leche League in your parenting

We would love to hear from you, either as a regular contributor or to share one story. Preparing your blog submission can fit into whatever bits of free time that you have. The average blog post is between 700-900 words. Your writing should reflect La Leche League philosophy and be told in your own voice. There is no specific style of writing that you need to use. Narratives, reflections from the past, poetry, creative writing, photographs, artwork, and more are all welcome. If you have an experience you are willing to share but need a little help putting it together, we are happy to help you submit it for the blog by arranging a phone call or exchanging emails in a question and answer style.

Si tienes una historia que compartir o quieres contribuir con algún artículo a nuestro blog, no dudes en escribirla en español. Nos encargaremos de la traducción al inglés.

Please send your questions and/or submissions to Kylie at [email protected]. We’re excited to hear from you and share your stories.

Supporting Breastfeeding Families–Today, Tomorrow, Always

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