Me?!

I would have to say, I am perhaps the most unexpected purveyor of foods geared towards nursing mothers and their newborns, but then upon reflection perhaps not. I have spent so many years obsessing about the nutritional value of the foods that I make and the impact those foods have on your bodies, because for me eating has always been a marriage of joyful flavor and life-supporting consumption. I have always said, I create for life and anything I make should satiate a physical and emotional need.

Designing foods that new moms should eat when breastfeeding is just an extension of that basic credo, I have always embraced. There is a double pay-off, for me, for not only am I helping ease the burden of what to eat, I get the satisfaction that a second person is directly benefiting from these foods. Assisting in creating an environment where feeding yourself actually helps feed your baby has left me deeply fulfilled, and cheering as the baby latches on knowing that every sip encourages this new life to grow and flourish. As someone who will never experience lactation, neither as an adult nor due to my bottle-feeding mom, I am blessed to be the one who can aid and abet the beneficial power of breastfeeding as both an emotional and nutritional bonding time.