Catholic Motherhood

The Catholic Nursing Mothers League (CNML) has always tried to encourage breastfeeding women in their vocation of motherhood since our beginning in 2006.  However, we have decided to expand that aspect a little bit more in the hopes that we can support mothers who are no longer in the breastfeeding season.  Pregnancy and breastfeeding are at the beginning of motherhood and even for those mothers blessed with large families and with many years of nursing babies and toddlers, eventually the youngest child weans and mothers are still living the vocation of motherhood.  

In our current CNML Facebook groups, the discussions tend to revolve mostly around breastfeeding which, of course, is very fitting since that is such a large part of our ministry!  However, even breastfeeding moms sometimes need to talk about how to fit in a date night with their husbands, how to make dinner when you have a fussy baby, what to do when soccer practice is right at dinner time, or how to make friendship with other moms a priority.  These are just a few examples among hundreds you can imagine.

We are still brainstorming.  If you have any ideas to share, we would love to hear them!  Our first step is we added a Facebook group called CNML Motherhood Group.  Our hope is that with your help we can build up the member base.  The focus will be on the spiritual, emotional, and practical aspects of motherhood including our prayer lives, how we take care of ourselves, our marriages or being a single mom, taking care of our children and our homes, and other ways we contribute to our communities, etc. The next step will be a book study.  We have not started working on this yet, but we hope to get it rolling soon.  We plan to start with an existing book on Catholic motherhood and read and discuss. 

I am excited about CNML’s expansion in helping Catholic moms live their motherhood vocations.  I hope you will join me!