83. Nourishing Nursing Mamas w/Lorena Garcia

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Episode 83- Did you feel completely nourished in the first few weeks after giving birth? After a baby is born, everyone is usually so focused on the new child, that sometimes the mama's own needs can fall to the wayside. In this episode, we talk to Lorena Garcia, founder of Majka, a brand that supports breastfeeding mothers. We hear all about Lorena, Amber, and Jenna's stories of their breastfeeding experiences and their resulting nutritional depletion. Hear many tips and tricks about how to best nourish your body when you are nursing while you are also recovering from the birth. 

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WITH SPECIAL GUEST LORENA GARCIA! Lorena has an MBA in finance and has always been an entrepreneur at heart. She first realized her love for business and entrepreneurship while starting a real estate investment fund. She later discovered her passion for technology & the digital industry and left to pursue a career where she could combine all of her interests. Today, Lorena is the Co-Founder of two successful companies: Wela Creative Studio, a strategy and design studio, and Majka, a brand focused on providing wholesome nutrition and lactation support products for new moms. She also handles her own lifestyle blog, Call Me Lore, and is mom to baby Diego.

​DEFINITION of NOURISHING NURSING MAMAS: It is very easy to focus all the attention on a new baby after birth, but the importance of taking care of the new mama can not be ignored, especially in the 40 days after giving birth. A new mama is trying to recover from a major physical event, taking care of an infant and learning how to breastfeed under high pressure situation. How a woman treats herself and is treated during the very sensitive postpartum period can affect a mom's health for the next 40 years. News flash: new mama's need to be nourished, rebuilt, catered to, coddled and loved beyond measure.
 
MAIN POINTS:

• In our culture, we often prepare for the birth, but not so much for breastfeeding.
• Birth can be traumantic, and then, instead of recovering, mamas hold themselves to high standards of perfection which only brings them down.
• Hear Lorena's personal story about starting her family, her breastfeeding experience, and how her business came out of it.
• Babies need their mama's to be ok first and foremost...this is a good reason to take of yourself.
• Nutritional depletion can easily happen to nursing moms.
• Do you have a postpartum plan?

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• Hear Jenna and Amber's stories about their breastfeeding and postpartum experiences.
• Many mamas are embarrassed to ask for help. This needs to shift!
• Other cultures have better systems of support for new mamas. In the USA, often mamas feel pressure to do everything on their own.
• Often mamas just try to pick up their old life after birth as if nothing happened, but this expectation works against us.
• Hear about the process of your milk coming in and how unexpected things can happen.
• What you can do if you are not producing a lot of milk.
• Can you love yourself as much as you love your baby.
• Hear all about diet choices and supplements that can help you with breastfeeding.
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​THANK YOU LORENA! Thank you for showering your love and expertise on new mamas. We love how you turned your own challenges into a brand that supports other women. For more from Lorena, or to get her beautiful products to nourish nursing mamas, check out her website, her blog and follow her on Instagram!
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CHALLENGE/INVITATION: Nourish the next nursing mama you come across, and if that mama is you, put a priority on nourishing yourself. 
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What were your experience in the postpartum period? Did you feel nourished in the first 40 days after birth? Let us know everything in the comments!

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