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This post is inspired by companies that continue to imagine what’s possible, like my friends at Casper who not only created an incredible mattress (yes I sleep on it) but continued to dream and created their next level pillow! When a kid’s tooth is loose, her body starts to vibrate and she knows it’s time to start making her way to where that child lives. And the conversation went on like that…him darting off questions like bullets, me in my imaginative flow and without hesitation, capturing them and running with them, building his excitement more and more. tell you why: Let’s face it, starting something from the ground up is not easy so we need to have an active imagination (literally a concept of the dream we are building, something not yet real that only we can see) to get us through the discomfort, the unknown, and more.

My milk flowed with ease, my daughter nursed like a champ and before very long, my freezer was full of baggies of frozen milk. After a few days of panic and frankly the feeling of being trapped, I decided that I had to begin my mindfulness practice and assess the reality of the situation (not the reality that made me feel trapped by our overly successful nursing!). And somewhere in that relaxed state, I began to feel grateful for this time and for how naturally nursing was going and for the blessings I had (from beautiful nursing clothes to a flexible schedule) which allowed me to be present for my baby. At about six months she decided that sippy cups worked for her and though bottles were not her thing, she would accept her milk this way from time to time.