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.