Hi! I’m Meredith.
You are not crazy. The perinatal period is really hard.
But the thing is—we were never meant to do this alone. It is 100% okay to ask for help, and I know how to help. Let’s do this together.
My goal is to help your family reach your goals.
Do you dream about moving boldly into birth and parenthood feeling calm, confident, and capable?
It is possible—but it doesn’t happen by accident.
I am the founder and owner of Community Perinatal and Lactation LLC, a small business located in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota.
First, let’s explore what true balance — holistic health & wellness — in the perinatal and early parenting transition means for you.
Maybe it means finally getting your sciatica pain under control. Or you’d like to navigate tandem nursing and you’re nervous about it. Maybe you want to prioritize your sleep in postpartum. Or you’d like to do exclusive breastfeeding for x months. Maybe it’s really important to you to have a smooth journey back to work. Or maybe it’s a successful VBAC.
Maybe you’d just like to feel a little more in control and a lot less overwhelmed and anxious—and it’s as simple as that. What’s your goal?
Once we’ve identified those goals, then the real work can begin. We collaborate and figure out how to actually put that plan into practice for your family, one step at a time.
My aim throughout our time together is creative and compassionate care from the heart, mixed with evidence-based education. I blend traditional parent & family education topics with holistic health & wellness promotion and perinatal-specific injury prevention topics.
Classes, coaching, support, and specialized services are all designed to be person-centered, focused on your family's unique needs. You can do this, and you are not alone.
There’s a method to our collective madness.
They say it takes a village to raise a child…but what about the parents?
The reality of modern American life is that most of us don't live in multigenerational households anymore. There are many benefits to this, of course, but some unintended consequences, too. It likely means we don't have the opportunity to watch our mothers give birth at home anymore, see our sisters breastfeeding, or experience our aunties raising their babies.
That intergenerational knowledge of how to “do this” has been lost. Most of us grow up without anyone ever telling us, much less showing us, how to parent anymore. As licensed social worker and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant Jabina Coleman noted so eloquently, “Everyone wants to hold the baby, but who will hold the mother?”
I’m commited to ethical practices.
I am passionately committed to the protection, promotion, and support of breastfeeding as a matter of maternal-child health for families all across the globe, but especially in underdeveloped countries where access to clean drinking water is often inaccessible.
In our country, we often think of bottle-feeding (or even the trendy new buzzword: “mixed feeding”) as the societal norm, and breastfeeding as something that just one very privileged group does. The fact is, breastfeeding is not a lifestyle choice. And breastfeeding is not “best”; it's normal. It's the biological norm for you—and your baby.
Your baby needs your milk to grow up healthy and thrive to her highest potential, and she needs to receive it at the breast, if at all possible. And you— your body, soul, and yes, that postpartum “mom brain”—need breastfeeding, too, for the innumerable holistic health and wellness benefits it gives you, both now and for decades to come.
Your decision today to breastfeed positively affects the health outcomes of your great-grandchildren. How's that for a day's work? Let me show you why you should fight for your human right to breastfeed.
Source: Breastfeeding is a matter of human rights (UNICEF)
Still have questions? Let’s chat!
There’s no commitment, pressure, or obligation.