Setting The Wheels In Motion

I am currently filled with exuberance! Each day is bringing me closer to my dreams of becoming a breastfeeding counselor and a pregnancy, birth and postpartum doula.

Last year I chose a doula course that spoke to me, and I save up to enroll and commence studying. But, as is often the way, life took a few twists and turns and before I knew it all those savings had gone into more areas of more immediate need. Talking to my partner today, though, I am reinvigorated. He noted that we don't have plans for this financial year's tax return, and so that pretty little sum will go straight to enrollment.

Until then I continue to read and to collect pieces of research, links, articles and books to wet my appetite.

I am making a little more progress on my journey toward breastfeeding counselor training. Before I can enroll into the course with The Australian Breastfeed Association, I need to have had six months first hand breastfeeding experience, which I am about two months and two weeks away from reaching. But in the meantime my local group leader is taking advantage of my enthusiasm and says I can get a lot of the paperwork out of the way while I wait.

I need to demonstrate active involvement in the ABA to qualify for the training program, and so my group leader offered me what I consider the ultimate dream job; librarian for our group. So I am waiting to receive the books our group already owns and an email from her with more information on what is involved with the paperwork.