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Congratulations to Cheryl Hyven. She is our big winner weekly winner of the Free Slim Lines Milk Tray Breast Milk Storage Trays Contest. Thanks Cheryl for sharing with your friends.
This week's contest is for a give-a-way of a Slim Lines Milk Tray Breast Milk Storage Trays. This breast milk storage tray is a great way to store your extra breast milk and not waste or lose any of the precious milk. It freezes your breast milk into thin sticks that can be dropped into a bottle and thaw without any wasted milk. So, hurry and get those emails out to qualify for your free set of Slim Lines Milk Tray.
How do you enter for your free Slim Lines Milk Tray Breast Milk Storage Trays:
Create a post on one of your favorite forums/communities about our contest or website with a link back to our website/blog. Once you have created the post, email me, blogcontest@gotbreastpump.com, with a link to your post.
If I have received your email, I will let you know by replying to your email. The deadline to get your email out to your friends and myself will be Sunday at midnight, so make sure to get those posts out by then. I will then compile all the entry names and choose at random for the winner.
Good Luck!
Traveling with and feeding your toddler has it’s challenges. Food is one of the big challenges, as the toddler is less likely to eat what the rest of the family eats during car trips of any length.
Being prepared with snack foods for feeding a toddler will solve some potential frustration for parent and toddler.Trail mix that is premade or that is put together by you and your toddler is easy, neat and offers the variety that will entice the picky palate of your toddler.
Most stores have quality trail mixes premade that contain dried fruits (pineapple, raisins, mango, etc.) and nuts (almonds, pecans, peanuts, etc.) Some trail mixes even have sesame sticks or some baked crunches to add texture.
Gabrielle and I make a trail mix that she likes and actually eats. She enjoys dried mango pieces, sesame sticks, small pretzels, nuts.
The taste and color variations make feeding your toddler easier because they prefer a smorgus board of shapes, colors, tastes, and textures.
Feeding toddlers on the road, at the amusement park, or just a trip to the mall is less stressful when your toddler has desirable.
Each day, we do our jobs at GotBreastPump.com and the Zachary Williamson Memorial Foundation. We love the work we do, because it helps mothers feed their babies.
Today is special! This is Zachary’s 6th birthday. His memory is our beacon. His memory directs the sincere motivation to help mothers and their babies.
The sadness never wanes, but the good works that follows his name sake grow every day.
God Bless Zachary Gabriel Williamson, our angel.
We love you Zach
WHEW IT’S HOT! You are a busy nursing mother and the heat is getting to you. At GotBreastPump.com, we are hearing from mothers this month on how to increase breast milk supply. Many mothers suffer from low milk supply during the heat of the summer.
Let’s look at some important things to consider to increase breast milk supply. Heat is stressful to the body. Low milk supply will happen under stress. Add to that, the heat causing dehydration, and it’s easy to see how your milk production will drop.
The next step is how to increase breast milk production during the brutal heat of July and August. First and foremost is to drink lots and lots of liquids. Typically this will not mean frequent trips to the restroom, because your body is using so much fluid for cooling through perspiration that we don’t even notice. Your baby will also need more fluids, and you are the source of those fluids through breast milk.
Even with an increase of fluid intake, you may still be experiencing low milk production. More Milk Plus Vegetarian Capsules will give a rapid increase breast milk supply. Some mothers find increased milk production, the same day they start taking the pills.
Try to find some time for much needed rest. This is hard for most people, but breast feeding/breast pumping mothers are stretched so thin. Adequate rest is important to breast milk production.
Let’s review. Drink lots of fluids, More Milk Plus Vegetarian Capsules, and concentrate on getting rest.
Here’s an easy and inviting tea recipe for you and your whole family to help everyone get enough fluids during the broiling months of summer.
Use any non-caffeinated tea. Green tea has many health benefits; most herbal teas have no caffeine, or simply regular decaf tea may be used.
• Place 4 tea bags in coffee maker basket.
• Use a full pot of water
• Brew tea just like a pot of coffee
• After brew is complete, remove from heat element
• Add sweetener of choice (honey, sugar, or splenda) to taste
• Add 1 or 2 drops of vanilla or almond flavor extract
• Add equal amount of ice to amount of brewed tea into pitcher
• Drop in a sprig of fresh mint if it is growing in your yard. (Very calming)
My children and I love raspberry herb tea with a drop of almond extract. We drop a leaf of mint into a glass.
Enjoy the tea, get rest when you can.
Congratulations to Tyvonna Gatewood. She is our big winner weekly winner of the Lilypadz Nursing Pads. Thanks Tyvonna for sharing with your friends.
This week's contest is for a give-a-way of a pair of a L'oved Baby Arms-free Swaddler. This wonderful little swaddler is great to help soothe babies looking for the security of being bundled but allow for baby's arms to be free. So, hurry and get those emails out to qualify for your free set of Lilypadz.
How do you enter for your free L'oved Baby Arms-free Swaddler: Email 3 of your friends telling them about our website and just place my email in the cc: area like the following:
If I have received your email, I will let you know by replying to your email. The deadline to get your email out to your friends and myself will be Sunday at midnight, so make sure to get those emails out by then. I will then compile all the entry names and choose at random for the winner.
Good Luck!
Inevitably, babies will be colicky. Sometimes infant colic can be traced back to foods the mother has eaten.
Recently, I read this article from Dr. Melanie Beingessner. She is a chiropractor, a breastfeeding counselor, an infant massage instructor and the mother of three. She is the author of The Calm Baby Cookbook and offers additional information about pregnancy and breastfeeding on her website: www.drmelaniebee.org.
I was impressed with this lovely recipe. It is simply delicious, easy, and family friendly for moms breastfeeding newborn. Looks like it might be good for leftovers for a small family, too.
I hope you (and the baby) enjoy this recipe.
Below, find the address for Dr. Melanie Beingesner’s advice and recipe for moms with colic babies, or any breastfeeding mom, at Buzzle.com.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/5-31-2006-97833.asp
Fussy, crying, colic babies are usually distressed because they are reacting to foods that their mothers are eating! Indeed, everything a mother breastfeeding newborn eats or drinks ends up in her breastmilk and small particles of foods in the breastmilk itself can cause a baby pain and discomfort. Because the lining of a baby’s digestive system is porous for the first four to five months of life, a newborn can react quite negatively to some of the foods that her mother is eating for the first few months.
Colic babies are so distressing for new parents. However, a mother can calm her baby easily by eliminating certain foods on a short-term basis. The following is one of the delicious recipes from The Calm Baby Cookbook, a book written expressly to empower new mothers to calm their babies.
Easy Roasted Chicken and Vegetables
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cubed
4 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
8 carrots, peeled and sliced on the diagonal
1/2 onion, diced
1 can chicken broth
3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves minced
1 tsp. oregano leaves
1 tsp. basil leaves
1/2 tsp. sea salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
Place all of the cubed chicken and chopped vegetables into a large bowl. Drizzle the chicken broth and olive oil over top, and then add the garlic, oregano, basil, sea salt and pepper. Toss well. Pour into two large baking dishes that have been coated with non-stick cooking spray. Cover and bake at 350° F for approximately 1hour. Remove from the oven, stir well and continue to bake, uncovered, for another 30 minutes. Test the potatoes for doneness.
Congratulations to Angela Letrea. She is our big winner weekly winner of the Adiri BPA-free Breast Bottle. Thanks Angela for sharing with your friends.
This week's contest is for a give-a-way of a pair of LilyPadz nursing pads. The LilyPadz nursing pads are unique in that they are made of silicone and keep your breast milk from coming out, instead of the traditional cotton pads that soak up breast milk. The Lilypadz stick to your breasts so that you can wear them without a bra, while sleeping, exercising, or with a strapless dress. So, hurry and get those emails out to qualify for your free set of Lilypadz.
How do you enter for your free LilyPadz nursing pads: Email 3 of your friends telling them about our website and just place my email in the cc: area like the following:
cc: blogcontest@gotbreastpump.com
If I have received your email, I will let you know by replying to your email. The deadline to get your email out to your friends and myself will be Sunday at midnight, so make sure to get those emails out by then. I will then compile all the entry names and choose at random for the winner.
Good Luck!
Its Hot, Hot, Hot outside in July. Your toddler’s appetite is at an all time low because of the endless heat. My daughter comes inside from playing for just a few minutes and her beautiful long hair is matted to her head.
At lunch time, I try to get this toddler eating, so she can take a cool nap. She’s cross with the heat and not hungry. I know she isn’t going to nap well on an empty stomach.
Magic is required to get some nutrition into my finicky toddler. I ask if she wants some ice cream and her little eyes light up a bit but she’s not sure.
I get the frozen vanilla yogurt out and put some in her favorite bowl with a few bits of fresh peach. I let her sprinkle some granola cereal on top and she is not interested in trying her peachy cooler.
As a nutrition conscious mom, this is not a typical lunch, but extraordinary measures are needed sometimes to get hard to feed toddlers to eat in the heat. Their little bodies need calories for toddler growth spurts.
I am careful to buy frozen yogurt that has a higher protein content and added calcium. It also supplies live active cultures of L. acidopihilus, Bifidobacteriumor and or other probiotic bacteria. These probiotics are important for maintaining intestinal flora and also aides the immune system. It might even help with toddler constipation.
So, feel free to give in and offer frozen yogurt when feeding a toddler, it actually packs a fair nutritional wallop. It is as good as feeding you toddler milk. And you precious finicky eater will rest well during that warm summer afternoon nap because, like milk, it also has tryptophan will help you toddler sleep.
You might even want to partake of a bit of the peachy cooler while feeding your toddler for the health benefits, especially if you are breastfeeding.
Chill out mom, its summer.
Firstright aspires to ensure freedom from discrimination for breastfeeding mothers and their children. Firstright works collaboratively with other organizations to protect, promote and support breastfeeding as the cultural norm. Http://www.firstright.org/
Breastfeeding in public IS legal in the United States, though sometimes people simply don't know it and therefore might complain about it. This means you can nurse your baby anywhere that you are allowed to be with the baby.
See A Current Summary of Breastfeeding Legislation in the U.S.
Mothers should be able to feed their babies as needed, without concern for discrimination. The comfort zone that mothers have for breastfeeding visibility varies dramatically. Classically the longer a mother breastfeeds, the greater comfort they have with public nursing.
Gratefully, breastfeeding clothing and nursing shawls. I’ll mention two companies who create and sell breastfeeding clothing are Glamour Mom and My Nursingwear.
Gotbreastpump.com has a breathable and very comfortable nursing cover available. Check out our store.
As a breastfeeding mother, if you encounter discrimination, you can report it at Report Breastfeeding Discrimination
Check out this Applebees discrimination event.
Http://bliss-breastfeeding.blogspot.com/2007/09/applebees-nurse-in-request.html
Oatmeal has been an important ingredient for helping to increase breast milk for years. There are no scientific studies that suggest that oatmeal actually increases breast milk, however, many mothers have stated that they felt that they produced more breast milk on those occasions that they did eat something that contained oatmeal.
I anything, it certainly cannot hurt to eat a nice, warm bowl of oatmeal with its many healthy nutrients or enjoy one of these quick smoothies.
Momma’s Smoothies
Increase breast milk with this delicious, delightful and cool smoothie.
1 cup fresh milk
1-2 tsp pure vanilla extract
¼ cup rolled oats
½ cup frozen or any fresh fruit: banana, peach, blueberries and strawberries
1-3 tsp safflower oil
Ice (optional)
Blend the milk, vanilla extract, and rolled oats in the blender until oats are totally ground. above in a blender. Add fruit and safflower oil until pureed. Add ice before serving until smoothie consistency.
Drink this 3-4 times each day. Recipe makes 4 servings, only 100 calories per serving.
Congratulations Lorraine. Lorraine Brea is the winner of last week’s Dr. Brown Bottle. She invited 3 of her friends via email to visit our website. Thanks Lorraine!
This week's contest consists of an Adiri BPA-free Breast Bottle. The Adiri Bottles are very popular especially amongst breastfeeding moms, because the bottle is so similar to mommy’s breast. So, hurry and get those emails out to qualify for your free bottle.
How to enter for your free Adiri BPA-free Breast Bottle: Email 3 of your friends telling them about our website and just place my email in the cc: area like the following:
cc: blogcontest@gotbreastpump.com
If I have received your email, I will let you know by replying to your email. The deadline to get your email out to your friends and myself will be Sunday at midnight, so make sure to get those emails out by then. I will then compile all the entry names and choose at random for the winner.
Good Luck!
Fennel Seed is one of the few natural remedies used to help mothers increase breast milk. It has been used since ancient civilizations and continues into our societies today. Many countries, especially Mediterranean, Italy, China, and Scandinavia, use fennel seed as a key ingredient in many of their recipes. One of these recipes that is enjoyed by many and may help to increase your breast milk supply is Pronto Mini Pizzas by Debbie Smith.
INGREDIENTS
* 1 pound ground beef or turkey
* 1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
* 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
* 1/2 cup chopped onion
* 2 garlic cloves, minced
* 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
* 2 teaspoon fennel seed
* 1/2 teaspoon salt
* 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
* 4 pita breads
* 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
DIRECTIONS
In a skillet, cook the meat, mushroom, green pepper, onion and garlic until the meat is browned and the vegetables are tender; drain. Stir in tomato sauce, fennel, salt and oregano. Simmer for 1-2 minutes. meanwhile, warm pitas in microwave. Top each with meat mixture; sprinkle with cheese. Microwave or broil until cheese is melted. Cut into quarters.
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