Mama Tish & These Milk Streets

I dont know who needs to hear this, but if you changed your hairstyle but not your comb,
this message was for you.

New season don’t mean nothin’ if the tools still dirty.
Your scalp is skin.
Your hair deserves respect.
And boilin’ water is free.

Wash that there stuff.
Now carry on.

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They told Brigette’s daughter—a nursing mother—to go to the back of the church…
but had nothing to say about Geraldine’s ti***es out, sittin’ high on the front row.

*Breastfeeding is not indecent.
*Feeding a baby is not a disruption.
*And a woman’s body does not become sinful for doing what it was designed to do.

If nourishment makes you uncomfortable,
that’s your work to do—not hers.

Mama Tish said what needed to be said.
And yes… I meant every word. I'll add more to it before I take anything away.

“Things are changin’…”

Today, Mama Lou opened our conversation talking about how birth looks different now—
water births, new choices, new options she couldn’t have imagined in her day.

But what moved us most wasn’t just how babies are being born.
It was who gets to walk through the hospital doors now.

Once upon a time, we weren’t allowed inside.
Now?
Some of our children and grandchildren are the doctors.
The nurses.
The ones giving care in those very same halls.

This moment is about progress, memory, and pride—
holding where we came from while witnessing how far we’ve come.

Pull up a chair and listen in.
This one is for the ancestors and the future.

Before we were allowed in hospitals.
Before policies recognized us as worthy of care.
Before our bodies were seen as something to protect instead of manage.
We gave birth at home, with Black midwives who knew our bodies, our families, and our communities.
Today, Mama Lou and Mama Tish sat down to talk about what childbirth looked like back then—
when Black midwives were trusted healers,
when birth was communal,
and when knowledge was passed hand to hand, woman to woman.
These midwives didn’t just catch babies.
They protected mothers.
They stood between us and systems that weren’t built for us.
This conversation is a reminder:
what we call “alternative” today was once necessary.
What we are reclaiming now is wisdom that was pushed aside—not lost.
Pull up a chair.
Listen close.
This is history.
This is memory.
This is legacy—still breathing.

Mama Lou and Mama Tish are back at it. Today, they're talking about Mama Tish's Academy and tearing tails up.

Show Mama Lou and Mama Tish some love in the comments.

What should they discuss next???

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Golden Hour: Why Skin-to-Skin Matters
Skin-to-skin ain’t a luxury — it’s the first medicine.
Heart steady. Breath calm. Sugar balanced. Baby safe.
Every time we let a newborn rest on their mama’s chest, we honor nature’s design. 💛

Sarah brought Mama Tish about FIVE bags of different colored milk talking 'bout 'which one is good?' Chile... let Mama Tish explain why her milk looking like Sherwin-Williams paint samples!

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Meet Mama Tish - your neighborhood's nosiest lactation expert who's been keeping these milk streets straight since before the Googles was born! Every day she's on her porch with something to say about what these young mamas doing wrong (and right).