Join internationally acclaimed baby care author, lactation consultant (IBCLC) and mother of five, Pinky McKay and celebrate yourself as a mother on this FREE teleseminar . Thursday 6th May, at 11am (Melbourne, Australia time).

To register for the Teleseminar go to http://www.pinkymckay.com.au/mothering/register.html

Congratulations, you are a mother!

 This is awesome!

 But it's also an awesome responsibility. A responsibility that can have even the most competent woman feeling overwhelmed , overtired and underappreciated. Not to mention stressed, depressed or burnt out at times.

 Whatever your vision of the perfect mother, the standards bar can be too high to live up to. It's all too easy to judge yourself harshly for not being a yummy mummy with an impeccable home, contented baby, compliant children, doting partner and supportive family members - just like the glossy mags!

 So, you keep trying to balance on the speeding treadmill as you become everything to everybody, juggling more and more balls in the air as you meet everybody's needs except your own.

 STOP!!!

It is time to nurture YOU! Just like the announcements in planes -you need to give yourself oxygen before you can help others. You need to be kind to YOU or you can't really care for your family - at least not in a sustainable way.

 This is why, as my mother's day gift to you, I am offering a FREE teleseminar - "Mothering - the REAL change of life."

 Consider, although you would probably do all sorts of professional development for a paid career, and you possibly do loads of professional development as a mother by reading parenting information or attending classes - from how to birth your baby to how to encourage your child's development, including any number of lessons FOR your littlies (think, swimming music, gym) - when did you last do any personal development for YOU as a mother AND a woman?

As they say in the skin care advertisement, "YOU are worth it!"

 Q: What is a tele-seminar?

 A: A tele-seminar is like a large conference call, but everyone except the speakers on these calls will be muted (so you won't hear everyone else's babies and children making a noise!). This means that you can hear carefully selected professionals speaking to you without even leaving your own home, finding baby sitters or getting out of your 'play' clothes (or pyjamas!). 

Listen on the phone...

 Simply dial into the designated number provided when you register (this will cost around a dollar per call if you use a phone card), switch to speaker phone and sit back (or sit in the yard and watch your little ones play as you listen).  

Or your computer.. 

 Or, if you find it easier, you can listen on your computer through a designated web link (this won't even cost you a phone call!). Just turn on your laptop, click on the link -- and listen 'hands-free' while you cook dinner, feed the baby or whatever... Just as you would listen to the radio or a CD while you work ( if you are in the office, wear headphones, your co-workers won't even know that you are doing a spot of parent-education!)  

 Q: What if I can't make the call time?

A: All calls will be recorded so you can download any calls you miss and listen later if the 'live' times are inconvenient for you. 

 How easy is this?  

 What will I learn?  

 This teleseminar is not about HOW to mother; it is not about what you SHOULD be doing with your baby and it is NOT about making you feel you aren't a 'good enough' mother (whatever 'enough' is).

  It is about acknowledging the pressures that make mothering the most challenging work you have ever had to do. It's also about easing the pressures - from 'doing it all' to feeling you have to 'keep up appearances' - including practical tactics for making things easier. It's about helping you manage even on 'dark days' when you feel scared that the light at the end of the tunnel is probably the headlights of a train coming towards you and where to find appropriate support.

  Above all, this FREE call is about celebrating you as a woman as well as a mother and helping you feel valued, as you acknowledge your power to be the mother YOU want to be - whatever this means for you.

On this call you will learn:

	How to face the pressures of modern mothering with confidence
	How to choose your authentic mothering style without feeling that you have to fit any neatly defined stereotype.
	How to cope with changing relationships with friends and family: what (and who) to nurture and what to let go and how you can do this with dignity for everyone.
	How to deflect criticism, wherever it comes from.
	FIVE strategies to make your daily life easier - from prioritising, to taking shortcuts that nobody else will notice, whether this is your first baby or a subsequent child (I am a mum of five - there probably isn't a shortcut I don't know or a disaster I haven't dealt with!)
	Finally, on this call I will also be announcing a fantastic teleseminar series "Mothers Matter Too"

This ground-breaking series of calls features internationally acclaimed experts - all highly regarded professionals in their respective fields as well as MOTHERS themselves.