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Behold the beauty in exclusive breastfeeding

Breastmilk better known as liquid gold by many; such a wonderful gift that God gave women to nourish their babies' immune system and health in general. Imagine nursing your baby as your bond with them such a satisfying feeling, right? Exclusive breastfeeding is feeding your infant with breast milk without giving any liquids including water for the first six months of life according to the WHO. WHO and UNICEF encourage to initiate breastfeeding in the first hour of birth and exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life. The topic exclusive breastfeeding is quite wide but today I am going to delve into the nutritional content of breast milk and the benefits of breastfeeding both to the mother and her infant. Nutritional content of breastmilk 1.Fore milk: Foremilk contains 80%of water which is enough to quench your infant's thirst. The milk is water like. POV : It is still a bone of contention to some mothers who strongly feel that a baby should be given water as it mea...
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Waiting in bliss

It becomes so hard as a single lady watching your peers, age mates getting married and being engaged, right?! It often at times brings you down emotionally but good thing is there is bliss in the waiting. This is not the time to wallow in deep thoughts, allowing anxiety get the better part of you rather this is the time to involve God in your life more than ever. Ask him to reveal to you what he is trying teach you out of this season, allow him to craft you, to mould you into the lady he wants you to be for the man that he has in store for you. We are God's workmanship (Ephesians 2:10). Ask him to prepare your heart into being a good and submissive wife to your husband,to search your heart and rectify anything that may hinder you from stepping into your wifely season with boldness. When the time is right the Lord will make it happen for you (Isaiah 60:22), in your singleness take pride in serving the Lord whole heartedly, soaking your self into the word of God and praying without c...

Doing it afraid

Doing it afraid , a cliche that we've numerously heard about. Dreaming big is scary ,transitioning to something you've always looked forward to is scary, marrying and getting married is scary, being betrothed is scary, starting a blog is scary, starting a family of your own is scary, writing that book is scary but all the same we just have to do it afraid. Doing it afraid? It simply means taking small steps into bringing something into an actualization regardless of how enormous it might seem. The other day I was having a conversation with my brother regarding this, who happened to have taken a great milestone in life. He told me; In this life doing things that we very much wish to do is scary and I instantly thought aloud, Doing it afraid! Personally for a very long time, I have always desired to start blogging. I have always contemplated of whether to start or not, but the other day I decided to try out blogging. Did I have suitable words for it? No!, Did I know how to begin ...