Hurricane Gustav Finally A Thing Of The Past

Wow! What a LONG week. We have lived here in Baton Rouge for well over a decade and have prepared for many hurricanes and there was nothing new with this hurricane. As a matter of fact, in the past, we were always lucky to just perhaps feel the winds and get some heavy rains from past hurricanes. However, Gustav got Baton Rouge and the surrounding areas pretty good. Though it was not a very strong storm (just a Category 3), it blew trees down like no one in Baton Rouge had ever seen before and caused more power outages than any catastrophe that Entergy Utilities had ever experienced.

Enduring a week of power outage, living on a small generator and a tiny ac window unit was difficult enough with two young kids, but trying to continue to run an international website business was one of the biggest challenges that I have ever had. Our poor postal workers were working in a pitch black office with flashlights accepting packages through a broken door wrapped in “CAUTION” tape.

It has been a very interesting situation, but one that makes you thank God for the wonderful people in the world. Kindness and teamwork just flourish at times like this – people giving and helping beyond anything that anyone would ever see in any given day.

We attempted to keep everything going as well as possible during this situation, however, if you find that you attempted to get in touch with us and were not successful, please try again. Things have pretty much gotten back to normal now, and we feel confident that we can get all answers to any questions that any mom might have.

Thanks for your patience and many prayers from so many that have help Louisiana get through another one.

Breast Implants & Breastfeeding/Breast Pumping

This is a hot topic! Since women aged 19 to 34 made up 50% of the total breast augmentation procedures 2007 with an increase of 15% from the previous year, and women aged 35 to 50 made up 42% of the total breast augmentation procedures. Breast implants are more popular than ever.

With so many women opting for this procedure, it is all the more important that they understand their long term options and impacts of implants.

Many women with breast implants think they can’t breastfeed. Actually, the breast implant does not cause a major problem. Most breastfeeding problems with breast implants occur when the surgery is done with periareolar incision (cut made around the nipple.) Incision placement makes a difference.

Any type of breast surgery or breast injury may affect a woman's ability to breastfeed. Considerations, such as the length of time since the surgery, previous lactation experiences, her support system and numerous other variables are all factors in a woman's ability to produce milk. No matter if the surgery was to augment or reduce breast size, remove a lump or for some other reason, the main concern is whether or not milk ducts and major nerves were cut or damaged.

Researching this topic, I found sites that strongly suggested that there were no problems, to sites that noted a wide variety of problems.

We at GotBreastPump.com are going to do deep research to bring you the best information and resources to support mothers breastfeed and breast pump who have had breast augmentation.

We will continue to cover this topic in our blog, so keep checking back and also email info@gotbreastpump.com or call us at 888-640-2244 with your thoughts and concerns about breast implants and producing breast milk for your baby.

Free Lilypadz Nursing Pads Contest

Congratulations to Liza Dermott. She is our big winner weekly winner of the More Milk Plus Pills. Thanks Liza 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!

Give Up Guilt & Nurture Yourself

Women tend to take responsibility for the happiness of others. While this is not reasonable, or achievable, women really take it to heart.

Mothers, shun your shoulds. We mothers often think we should consider everyone else’s feeling and needs before our own.

Many moms believe they should make their children and husbands happy. The reality is that we have influence on one another but we do not have the power to make anyone feel anything.

Then there are those voices of people from our past that set off the shoulds. Don’t let people should on you. Observe and censor your own menu of shoulds. Being driven in life through unhealthy, and usually meaningless shoulds, can create resentment and serious exhaustion.

End the “should”; begin the nurturing. We all know how to nurture, so let’s apply that beautiful knowledge to ourselves. We support and sustain the whole family, why not ourselves.

Moms, especially those moms with babies and small children need ample rest. Broken sleep patterns due to night feeding take a genuine toll on physical and mental health. So dump the guilt; take a nap if possible.

A couple days a week, find 30 minutes to take a warm, relaxing bath, instead of the quick shower. This act of kindness to yourself is important. When we don’t take care of ourselves, nurture ourselves, we send a message to our families about how we should be valued. If we neglect our needs, others will too.

Guilt defined is: self-reproach for supposed inadequacy or wrongdoing. Does this sound like anyone you know? We feel we are doing something wrong if we nap when we really need rest. We feel guilt when we can’t meet everyone else’s needs.

Get out of the guilt zone. Throw out regret.

Do you remember the golden rule? Put a healthy twist on that rule. Nurture yourself, as you would nurture others.

Free More Milk Plus Increase Breastmilk Pills Contest

Congratulations to Jennifer. She is our big winner weekly winner of the Free Podee Hands-free Bottle. Thanks Jennifer for sharing with your friends.

This week's contest is for a give-a-way of a bottle of More Milk Plus (60). The More Milk Plus have helped so many moms to successfully increase their breast milk. It includes such wonderful herbs as fenugreek, blessed thistle and more.

How do you enter for your free More Milk Plus Pills: 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!

When Bliss Doesn’t Happen

You’ve just delivered your long awaited baby. Everyone in the birthing room is watching you as the doctor places the bundle of joy on your abdomen. Terribly self conscious, you “act” so happy. But deep inside, the little crying thing on your belly is slimy and making a lot of racket and your head is spinning with confusion.

NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS! Why???

We have tall moms, short moms, moms of different colors, different temperaments, different everything, so why not different emotions about birthing?

Society frowns of moms who don’t have bliss for their baby, immediately. Many factors play into the first moments of this relationship.

The physical and mental health of the mother during pregnancy and birth has enormous impacts on the moments following birth. Physical complications with the mother during birthing or physical complications with the baby during birthing, adds potent stress on the new mother.

Nearly 15% of all women suffer from postpartum depression. I don’t mean the baby blues, because 50 to 80% of mothers go through some sort of blues/adjustment. In this case we are talking about mothers who have unspeakable problems, such as feeling they are dying, inability to cope with the demands of a new baby, even thoughts of harming their infant or themselves.

Bliss, this is not! But 15% of mothers are not going to have the bliss, they will not be capable of doing bonding right away, they may not even feel like handling their baby. Families, doctors and hospital staff may not think about this mother’s affliction. She will likely feel like the loneliest person in the world, at that moment.

For those mothers who experience these feeling, you are not alone. If you have prior knowledge of PPD, be sure to keep your doctor aware while preparing for birthing. Family and support people need to know this too, if you feel comfortable telling them.

You will need more help following delivery. Be brave and ask for help from anyone, everyone. Avoid hiding these feelings, they don’t often go away for awhile, and medication and talk therapy can do a lot to help.

Bliss of Motherhood

How is it that a mother can go from the extraordinary physical pain of birthing to the total bliss in less than one minute? This is one of the amazing abilities of a woman’s body.

The second that her baby is placed in her arms, a mother experiences bliss. The smell of her baby, the baby’s sounds, the warmth of it delicate skin against her own creates a temporary womb that she and her newborn are enveloped in.

The doctor can be doing more procedures, the father and family can be rejoicing all ‘round this bonding, but mother and baby have made their first extra uterine contact. The long, long anticipated moment is unveiled and nothing else in the world matters.

Thank goodness that hospitals support and encourage immediate bonding times for mother and baby. How sweet the tenderness of a baby lying on mother’s chest. The baby can smell mother’s milk and instinctively desires and make movements to nurse.

The beatific events of mother giving life, then giving precious nourishment of mother’s breast milk is the most generous design in the cycle of life.

Mothers of the world, rejoice in the largesse you bring to the world.

Tomorrow let’s talk about the moms who don’t get the bliss, since people don’t talk about this awful reality. All moms don’t get bliss.

Mothers need Real Support for Real Life in the Real World!!!

According to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), new mothers should be breastfeeding their babies for longer periods of time to gain the many health benefits to both infant and mother. The new policy statement is the first update to breastfeeding guidelines since 1997.

http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update0305c.shtml

The aim of the updated AAP guidelines is to stress the benefit of exclusive breastfeeding until at least the six-month mark. All health information related to breastfeeding, including benefits to both mother and child, has been updated to make a stronger case for this.

It seems like most large organizations associated with infant health and breastfeeding are promoting breastfeeding, especially for 6 to 12 months. This notion is germane to infant health.

But let’s consider, mothers that return to work before infant is 3 months old is 30.6% plus another 21.6% return to work by 5 months. How do these mothers fulfill this unrealistic ideal of breastfeeding for 6 months to a year, when most are in the work place long before six months?

Why is so there so little discussion of breast milk pumping? There are wonderful cases where mothers had great supportive husbands or family members, who were willing to bring the baby to the workplace to allow breastfeeding. These, unfortunately, are not the norm. Too often, mothers will stop supplying breast milk due to returning to work.

So how will the World Health Organization, Department of Health and Human Services, the Center for Disease Control achieve their lofty goals? Mothers need real support for real life in the real world.

Join us at GotBreastPump.com in dialogue about the benefits of breast milk pumping. Mothers can return to work with a breast pump and still give their babies “Mother’s Milk, breast milk, the best milk!

Act (SEA) 219 legislation, effective July 1, 2008, promotes employer support for breastfeeding employees. Employers are required to make reasonable efforts to provide accommodations for women to collect and store breast milk during the workday. Employers are required to make reasonable efforts to provide a private space for collection and accessibility to breast milk storage area, either by providing a refrigerator or allowing the employee to bring portable cold storage.

Mothers need to be able to breast feed, or breast milk pumping with either a manual breast pump or electric breast pump.

If you are a mother back at work or returning to work soon, email, blog or just talk to all who will listen. Mothers and babies needs have been shrouded long enough.

Thanks for continuing to visit our site.

Share your thoughts, needs, concerns, or ideas with us: Gotbreastpump@gotbreastpump.com

Free Podee Hands-free Bottle Contest

Congratulations to Melinda Sams. She is our big winner weekly winner of the Free Slim Lines Milk Tray Breast Milk Storage Trays Contest. Thanks Melinda for sharing with your friends.

This week's contest is for a give-a-way of an Podee Hands Free Bottle. We had such an overwhelming response for these the last time that we decided to give another away. These are just loved because of the great convenience it provides.

How do you enter for your free Podee Hands Free Bottle:

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!

Increase Breast Milk with Chilled Oatmeal, Yogurt, and Fruit Compote

Low milk Supply is a regular concern for breastfeeding and breast pumping mothers. Modern medicine and hyper-technology offer a great deal of health related information about breast milk production. Yet, the more we know, the more we see that a holistic approach to our health and well being is so very important. All the more important when the nutrition we use for our bodies, directly affect our breast feeding babies.

Great old standards like oatmeal and yogurt can be helpful to breastmilk production. There may be some scientific research that says there is no protein, carbohydrate, or fat in oatmeal or yogurt that actually affects breast milk production. But survey one hundred breast feeding and/or breast pumping mothers about their consumption of these food items and most will attest to positive effects of these two food items on their milk production.

Oatmeal and yogurt do have outstanding food value, so go ahead and add them to your diet during the intense heat of summer. And here is a luscious recipe where you can get both in one meal.


Chilled Oatmeal, Yogurt, and Fruit Compote

Servies 4
• 2 cups oatmeal (not instant)
• 1 cup fruit (strawberries, blueberries, peaches, raspberries, etc)
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Directions

Mix all ingredients, cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
Serve cold, with milk or soy milk if desired.

Free Slim Lines Milk Tray Breast Milk Storage Trays Contest

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!

Toddler Trail Mix for Trips or Regular Noshing

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.

Zachary’s 6th Birthday

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

Increase Breast Milk with Cool Iced Tea

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.

Free L'oved Baby Arms-free Swaddler Contest

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:

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!

Are You Troubled with Newborn Colic?

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!

Giving Your Toddler Ice Cream for Lunch?

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

Increase Breast Milk with Momma's Smoothie

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.