by Leslie Lytle | Sep 14, 2015 | Birth, Breastfeeding, Community, Nonprofit Development, Postpartum, Pregnancy
When I speak with pregnant or postpartum women about Nurture’s goal of opening a nonprofit resource center to support RVA’s childbearing families, they typically nod their heads in agreement saying “Oh yeah!” Their relief at the idea of a “home of their own” is...
by Leslie Lytle | Jun 26, 2015 | Breastfeeding, Community
When Cordelia Miller, 91, was a young mother working in the rural fields of Texas, she didn’t think twice about how to feed her baby. “You went and got the baby from under the shade of the wagon, breastfed it when it was hungry, put the baby back under the wagon and...
by Leslie Lytle | Nov 8, 2013 | Community, Nonprofit Development, Professional Development, Uncategorized
As I looked around the room, the Garden Hall, at Maymont on that afternoon of October 18, I saw a piece of what I had hoped to see in those early days of envisioning the work of Richmond’s Maternity Resource Center. Back in late 2011 when a few of us met at...
by Leslie Lytle | Aug 11, 2013 | Community, Nutrition
Breastfeeding. It seems so simple. But for many women and families, it’s not. And a large part of that “not” is lack of support within our communities for mothers who are attempting to provide their children with nature’s first and best food:...
