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@miaomalley

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fashion + beauty creator
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📍ATX (CT + NYC)
Former Ulta Beauty Collective 💄

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the queen @miaomalley
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Spring is springing 🌼 @miaomalley wears the Clara dress in rust, online now
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#warmweatherwardrobe #springdress #springdresses #atxsmallbusiness #tinyboxwoods #flowershopping #orangedress #burntorange #burntorangedress #sustainablefashion #slowfashion #madeinusa #sizeinclusive #sizeinclusivefashion #extendedsizingmatters #extendedsizefashion #dresswithpockets #builtinbra #momdress #chicmom #coolmom #momiform #chicmama #coolmomstyle #chicmomstyle #momhacks #momhack #effortlessdressing #effortlessstyle #momminginstyle

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#putusontherack #fattax #sizeinclusivity #plussizefashion #fatfashion #retailmemes #fashion #fashionblogger #fatpositive

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So honored to be asked to speak at The Body Conference- New Year, Same Body organized and lead by my friend and colleague @msgigggles

My topic: Body Positive Parenthood: How To Divest From Diet Culture During Birth, Postpartum + Beyond

Head to miaomalley.com and click the link to purchase tickets. $15. If you have any financial concerns or can’t cover this price, please send me a DM

You don’t want to miss my fellow speakers :
My friend Stephanie Roman @sromancoaching Weight Neutral Health Coach Co-Founder of @plusamplified

Speaking on: How to make new year's resolutions in a weight-neutral way. Why weight-related resolutions are problematic, and/or how to respond to all the new year/new you BS.

Reverend Rucifer @revrucifer Reiki Healer, Teacher, and Sacred Intimate and Sex+ Consultant

Embodied Self-Love: Attuning to the Divine Within. Our bodies are the vessel for life and how we interact with everything that we see, touch, smell, and experience. In this session, we will feel into the infinite wisdom of our bodies and offer ourselves kindness, love and compassion as a blessing into the new year.

Cheyenne Davis @cheymodee Digital Content Creator, Activist, and Educator and founder of @unveild

Speaking on How the Media Manipulates how you feel about Your Body, and the proactive ways you can combat those feelings.

And of course our fearless leader, my friend, Megan Ixim @msgigggles Content Creator, Entrepreneur, and Fat /Body Neutrality Activist and Co-Founder of @fatbabesofjerseycity

Speaking on How to Cancel Diet- Culture and Combat Fatphobia this New Year. Learn how to throw out the "New Year New You" and put in "New Year Same Great Me".

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@miaomalley being her true damn good mama self ❤️❤️❤️ obsessed with this easy breezy effortless summer look✨ • damn good mama • oatmeal triblend tank • S-2XL • $24.99 • DM to order 🔥🔥🔥

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Breastfeeding isn’t free.

I’ve had a lot of time to think about the narratives that informed my expectations about parenthood and the reality of my lived experience becoming a new mother. My first time contemplating #WorldBreastfeedingWeek, I can’t stop thinking about the oft-repeated refrain “Breastfeeding is free.” Here’s the thing, it absolutely is not.

When I prepared to Breastfeed (-or BodyFeed- thank you @loveoverfearwellness!) I was told it would be hard. I took classes, talked to dozens of nursing parents about their struggles and triumphs, sought product recommendations, collected hand-me-downs, and anticipated calling upon peer-to-peer support, cultivating a deliberate group of friends I knew I could text in moments of frustration, confusion, or joy, even at 3 in the morning.

And oh god, it’s so much harder than than I imagined or could have possibly “prepared” for. 🤯

I’ve been through no milk whatsoever, a dangerous over- supply, a baby so over-full she projectile vomited, a starving baby rapidly losing weight, triple feeds, donor milk and donated milk, a depleted freezer stash, bruised nipples, crumpled milk ducts, and latches so painful I literally screamed.

At 5 months in, I’ve become an exclusive pumper. 🍼🍼🍼 When Alma’s efforts to withdraw milk became so exhausting she could not sustain enough energy to stay awake nursing - but then couldn’t sleep because she was so urgently needing food - and we could not correct her latch, we changed course. Again. The only way to keep my baby from starving right now keeps me away from her other needs. I am beholden to a pumping schedule in a desperate scramble to meet her needs, I am tethered to a machine of tubes and flanges and valves and buttons and taken away from more pressing needs - my own sleep, for example.

There is an immense value to this, however you do it. It requires an incredible investment of time, energy, emotions, and strength before monetary expenditures - of which there are a staggering amount - are even accounted for.

This is not “free,” and calling that is devaluing and disempowering.

That cost deserves and demands our recognition.

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This Sunday, my Alma turns five months old. That’s nearly six months, nearly half (!) a (!) year (!) since her birth. I am flabbergasted by how much time has passed, how quickly. 🤯 But, I’m also practicing putting that time in context, I’m pausing to notice the judgment and expectations this passage of time has sparked in me. Um, WOW, actually! 😮 What a small speck of time this has been, when I consider the vastness of a lifetime, and the incredible changes these months have borne. 💫⁣
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In the middle of Physical Therapy this afternoon, with the words “FIVE MONTHS‼️” clanging around my head, I broke down sobbing, so frustrated and in grief for how something that once occurred to and for me so easily before was now so seemingly impossible. I was ashamed that I could not force my body to take the shape I wanted. While the grief is still so palpable, in hindsight, writing this account, I am proud I recognized that to take that shape indeed would have been forceful, and was something my body was not ready for in this moment. (And aware that this moment is not forever.) Just as in my pregnancy each new week felt like a massive achievement and relief, in my postpartum period I’ve been fixated on metrics and timelines. I thought I would have a challenging six weeks, and then resume life as “normal.” In fact, the only normal for this postpartum body is the new. Every moment of every day is a new challenge, a new lesson, a new discovery. In these five months I have grown and changed just as my daughter has. I have learned hard lessons just as she has mastered new skills. I have found eyes in the storm just as she has weathered her own. I have been in awe of every new leap, every single development, I have been delighted by every single moment of growth. But I have not extended myself that same gentleness. I have not extended myself that same patience, understanding, or grace. Why is it so easy to extend gentle patience to those we love, but not harness that same generosity of spirit for ourselves? I would never rush my daughter into meeting milestones by a rigid external timeline, so why do we do that to our postpartum selves? So now I tell myself: “be gentle.”🤍

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Happy Summer! #ringslings and water = so soothing! If you haven’t tried it - 10/10 recommend! It’s so important for us to feel empowered to take up space with our babies wherever we want to go! Tap into that power by putting that baby on you and doing whatever it is you need to do! Live your life! Don’t hesitate! Enjoy this time. This precious time. This precious summer.

Also PSA: Public breastfeeding is your human right under US and Canadian and law. (Including in a public pool)

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All of our #PeriodRoutines look a little different. This week, we’re featuring @miaomalley, body-positive advocate and founder of @plussizebabywearing.

Head to our story to hear from Mia about her experience with #PCOS, her skincare routine, and how she uses meditation to manage PMS.
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Illustration by @eumiel

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to all the babywearing dads + grandpas: happy happy Father’s Day! ☺️ [throwback]

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“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers and singers of song.” -Pam Brown⠀
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Have you entered our giveaway with @902brewing, @ednmarys, @grindcoffeejc, @brightandbaby and @thecliffjc yet? Look no further for the perfect surprise for the Dad in your life! See our giveaway post for more details. ⠀
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📸: @miaomalley #hazelbaby #jerseycity #jerseycitygiveaway #jerseycitydads #jerseycitymamas #fathersday #fathersdaygifts

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In honor of @blackbabywearingweek, I am so excited to highlight that babywearing is a great #tummytimehack for an infant!
Babywearing has been practiced for centuries around the world. It has gained popularity in recent decades due to the influence of advocates of attachment parenting and I am here for it!
Babywearing is a form of baby transport which can be enjoyed for as long as mutually desired, often until toddlerhood and beyond.
@plussizebabywearing and I talked about this last week!

Just a few of the benefits of babywearing include: ✅ Mama’s oxytocin levels are increased through physical contact leading to a more intimate maternal bond, easier breastfeeding and better care, and lowering the incidence of postpartum depression. Similarly, the paternal bond can also strength. ✅Infants who are carried are generally calmer, as more of their survival needs are met. The caregiver can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, tasted, provide feeding and the motion necessary for continuing neural development, gastrointestinal and respiratory health and to establish balance (inner ear development) and muscle tone. ✅Parental rhythms (walking, heartbeat) can have balancing and soothing effects on infants. ✅Attachment between child and caregiver is more secure. ✅Decreases risk of positional plagiocephaly (#flathead syndrome) caused by time spent in ‘containers’ and back sleeping. 📸: @_tiffanyshelton
I also find it really works to strengthen the muscles of the head, neck and trunk and works the vestibular system! **If your baby hates #tummytime, baby wearing is a MUST!!**
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