How Do We...
Grow and Learn from being childless, young women to strong and informed mothers?
Become educated on our options so we can make informed decisions and partner better with our doctors?
Balance risk and common sense during preconception, pregnancy, childbirth and child care?
Trust our natural instincts when it comes to making decisions regarding our birth experience, baby care and our children's overall health and wellness?
Rediscover ourselves after becoming mothers so that our sense of identity is not forgotten amidst our new responsibilities.
Empowered Mommies.com is an advocacy group and online community for moms who are trying to conceive, are expecting, or have young children, who are interested in having up-to-date information about preconception, pregnancy, labor/delivery, newborn and child care and other various topics of interest like breastfeeding, immunizations, maintaining a healthy lifestyle post baby, health and wellness, nutrition, activism, community outreach as well as mom empowerment as a whole including work-life balance, educational opportunities, and career management.
Our intent is not to preach about a certain way of giving birth, feeding, caring for your baby or child or parenting for that matter, but rather our goal is to empower you through the exchange of information so that you can understand all your options and make informed choices based on what is best for you and your family rather than feeling influenced or forced into a choice because of fear or misinformation.
Our Guiding Principles are:
Knowledge: Seek out accurate and current information to better educated, understand our options and guide our decision making.
Instinct: Trust our maternal and womanly instincts and be confident in ourselves.
Partnership: Work in conjunction with our medical providers and other experts in an equal and mutually respectful partnership.
Sense of Self: Strive to maintain our personal identity amidst our new responsibilities of motherhood.
The Story Behind Empowered Mommies...
I remember expecting my first child and being bombarded by fragments of information that at times seemed to completely contradict one another. Relying mostly on the advice of my mother, who raised six children of her own, I quickly realized that today we face new challenges that were not as common or prevalent for previous generations of mothers.
Today, many of us come into motherhood later on in life juggling careers and even advanced degrees. We may want to be more involved in the decision making process during our pregnancy, childbirth experience and be treated as an equal partner with our medical providers and other experts. Some of us may like to stay on top of latest research and information on wide array of topics affecting our families be it health, nutrition or green living. Or simply we would like to be considered a strong and active voice in our communities, or learn how to better balance work and child rearing.
So it was when I started blogging for my local newspaper's moms site that I learned about the power of online mom communities. This is what motivated me to create Empowered Mommies. Now as a mom of four young children I hope to continue bringing together a diverse community of moms who can support and empower each other to be the best moms we can be.
-Ivanna Garibaldi Campbell, Founder
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