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Currently Plain Mary is actually donating 20% of all proceeds for those that purchase anything from her pink pages. Hurry on over, there’s stuff like: embroidered burp clothes, mini suitcases. Here’s the link that shows all items that can be purchased for the cause.  Plain Mary Donates 20% of proceeds to Breast Cancer Awareness.

The pink Baby K’tan baby carrier will donate $1 to breast cancer awareness for every one sold. These, for those that don’t know are front carriers for your little babies.

BrightStarts will donate a portion of their proceeds to Breast Cancer Awareness. For those that don’t know they have a ton of baby products such as bouncers, playmats and toys, it states any of the toys in pink that are purchased will be donated to the cause. (not the toys but money from it) BrightStarts donates to Breast Cancer Awareness.

DaysAGo is also giving 10% of all sells of the pink ones to Breast cancer awareness. I added this because these caps are great to add to the top of baby food to tell you how long they’ve been in the fridge for those of us that tend to forget.

Now I know as moms of babies we tend to forget about ourselves so here are a few just for moms that still donate to the cause:

Pouchee is donating $1 for every Breast Cancer LTD Edition Cotton pouchee sold for this month. This pouchee is a great gift idea for a mom that has a ton of running around to do or the one that has more than one kid in more than one thing. The pouchee looks like a wallet from the outside and a big enough purse to put a book, phone, small toys, change, etc inside. So it is perfect for the on-the-go mom.  Pouchee donates $1 per bag sold.

Eco Child’s Play has a post full of baby toys that have companies that will donate to breast cancer awareness, check them out. Dandelion Organic Baby Toys for Breast Cancer Awareness

Post from: Babylune

Course every bit of crying meant I leaked a bit more, my shirt was soaked and I ached. It took a couple of days to get to where we needed to be, which of course we stopped at hotels and he ate all night long. He was the type of breastfed baby that ate off and on all day, it was more like quick bursts or snacks, this was also the way he slept. When we pulled in to my grandparents house we were finally there, all we needed was to find a home, in the meantime I would rest and she would play with her great grandson.

Little did I know I was getting sick and when I finally realized it I blamed it on the cold, stating that we just moved from the desert my body was probably just hot. It wasn’t, I got even more sick and I hurt every time my son touched my chest. My husband and grandmother tried telling me I had a fever but I thought it was just them worrying as I was naturally hot.

The next feeding, yes even though it hurt so much, I noticed I looked a bit off. My breasts were lumpy and just didn’t look right. I began to feel them and felt the lumps, thinking back I remember the doctor telling me I should give myself breast exams and feel for lumps, this immediately threw up a red flag. I had cancer. I told my husband which in turn pulled out our tricare folder and told me to call a number, thank goodness the on call nurse had been in my position and walked me through it. I did not have breast cancer, I had mastitis and I’d need some medication to get over it. If it didn’t work within two weeks I had to go right in to the hospital. It worked, but boy did it hurt.

So there ya have it, that’s how I thought I had breast cancer. (I’ll be posting some facts on mastistis later today)

Post from: Babylune

Yesterday, my family was part of a team of 28 moms, dads, babies and kids. Our parent-baby group all wanted to run or walk The Race for the Cure here in Frankfurt. Those who couldn’t be there donated money. It was important to all of us.
I don’t need to tell you how breast cancer has changed our family, you probably have a story of your own.

All of us have been touched by worry, by loss, by the wonderful hope that lives in our hearts and is nourished by discovery and by survival.

There is nothing we can do to prevent every case of breast cancer. We can nurse for a year, or longer. We can eat our vegetables and limit fat consumption. We can exercise and learn to deal with stress. Those of us with family histories can have our genes tested and take radical steps if our hearts tell us to do it.

In life, you do what you can and hope for the best. That’s what I want my children to know, that’s why we make guestures and take steps. Just so hope is always running ahead of despair.

Post from: Babylune

Having your first child after the age of 30 was always believed to increase the mother’s risk of developing breast cancer.

New research suggests that the benefit of reduced risk for breast cancer can include mothers who had their first child after the age of twenty-five…as long as they breastfeed. The most common forms of breast cancer involve tumors that express estrogen and progesterone receptors, but being a young first-time mother and having 4 or more children does not reduce the risk of developing rarer forms of breast cancer where the tumors don’t have these receptors. Breastfeeding, this research suggests, reduces the risk of developing both the common and rarer form of breast cancer.

“Breastfeeding may have a protective effect that negates the increased risk of breast cancer associated with late pregnancies,” said Dr. Giske Ursin, an associate professor of preventive medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, in a press release. “As more women may choose to delay pregnancy until after 25, it is important to note that breastfeeding provides protection against both estrogen and progesterone receptor positive and negative tumors.”

The study, “Parity, breastfeeding and breast cancer risk by hormone receptor status in women with late age at first birth—A Case Control Study,” was authored by Sarah J. Lord, Leslie Bernstein, Karen Johnson, Kathi Malone, Linda Weiss, Jill McDonald, and Giske Ursin.

The findings were presented on Monday at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Los Angeles.

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