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Baby Items for Breast Cancer Awareness

Eliza Ferree — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:29:06 +0000

For those of you that want to help support “Breast Cancer Awareness” you can and so can your little baby. I went around the web looking for placing/items that actually supported or donated to the cause.

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You can also visit Susan G. Komen site and read stories about those that have had breast cancer, those that have lost a loved one from it to finding out how you can support the cause.

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

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Restaurant Fined: Fired Breastfeeding Mom

Eliza Ferree — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:23:03 +0000

An LA Restaurant was recently fined for firing an employee that breastfed her baby during her

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breaks. As you can imagine this did not go over very well with the community of breastfeeding moms or the legal department.

Jesus Acosta, the owner of Acosta Tacos, has been fined $46,000 for firing Marina Chavez. She sued him for emotional suffering and lost pay. Keep in mind the only thing that she got fired for was actually feeding her baby during her breaks. I could understand if this was done while working but not on a break.

This isn’t the only problem with Jesus though, apparently when Marina got pregnant she continued to work, she had been working for the company for three years before this. But when her baby came prematurely and she had to take off to care for it for four weeks she’d been replaced. Not just replaced though, but fired. They did ask her to work two night shifts for an employee that was absent, she did it. But when the boss heard she was breastfeeding her baby during her breaks, she was fired. By the way she didn’t breastfeed the baby in the restaurant but inside her car, outside.

MomLogic reports:
When her boss learned that during those two night shifts that her infant had been brought to the taco restaurant at the time of her breaks and she nursed her baby the car, he fired her. She was told she couldn’t work if as long as she was still breastfeeding her baby.

MomLogic Reports:

When her boss learned that during those two night shifts that her infant had been brought to the taco restaurant at the time of her breaks and she nursed her baby the car, he fired her. She was told she couldn’t work if as long as she was still breastfeeding her baby.

Do you think the fine fit the crime? I think the way he fired her was too harsh and he should’ve allowed her to do whatever she needed to do on her breaks, especially since she was actually covering for an employee.

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It’s Breastfeeding Awareness Month

Eliza Ferree — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 23:35:22 +0000

August is breastfeeding awareness month and for the month of August I think we should chit chat about

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breasts and breastfeeding. What do you think? I know not all of us have breastfed our children, some couldn’t and some chose not to do it, for whatever reason we’ve it doesn’t matter … we’ve all heard of it. For myself, I have serious stories and not so serious and sometimes comical stories. I’m sure some of you all do too and I’d like to hear them. On posts that I write “Breastfeeding” in I hope that you join me or if you’d rather not jump in you can email me your stories at homemom3@gmail.com and I will keep you anonymous.

What stories we’ll chat about this month:

- Breastfeeding in public
- Breastfeeding oops
- Breastfeeding joys
- Breastfeeding advice
- Breastfeeding problems
- Breastfeeding: Too old or not?
- Breastfeeding pictures (if you have them we can post them, with or without your name)
- Bigger boobs while breastfeeding
- Smaller boobs after breastfeeding
- facts on Breastfeeding

Do you have a breastfeeding story that fits one of the topics? Do you have a breastfeeding product? If you do contact me and you can be a featured guest on Babylune. Okay everyone…lets talk breasts, errr breastfeeding.

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Your Baby’s Weaning Reaction

Eliza Ferree — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:47:57 +0000

I’ve had four children, all four were breastfed and weaned. Yes I can say each one has their own story on how they finally ended their breastfeeding days. Some weren’t so nice to mommy while

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others just made her feel bad, only two would give it up on their own with no fighting me. I think the first and last were the hardest to wean, I’m not sure if that’s because one was a first and last baby. What were the reactions of your children when it came time to wean?

With my first I ended up with two bad cases of mastitis, which was very painful. The second time I got it the doctor gave me a pill that would immediately dry the milk supply up and the baby would not be able to drink whatsoever. Those were horrible days, I felt so guilty doing it to him for so reason and cold turkey to top it off. I was in pain, besides having mastitis but the pain of being engorged as well.

With my second child they informed me that they no longer had that pill to make it dry up. She would attempt to stop and then go back, I battled with mastitis every time she tried to stop. The third I can’t even recall but she was easier, no mastitis. This last one took a lot longer than I thought but no mastitis, however now that he is off he still comes at me. There are visits to my room but he no longer tries to nurse, instead he cuddles up to me and sticks his hand down my shirt. Even during the day he does this. But I can state he’s officially off.

Did your child ever stick their hand down your shirt even after they were weaned?

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Kentucky Reader: Can Wife Pump at Work?

Eliza Ferree — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:21:33 +0000

A reader wrote in the comments asking other Babylune readers if they knew the Kentucky breastfeeding laws. Apparently his wife has gone back to work but they aren’t very supportive of breastfeeding.

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Here’s some quick info I did find on Kentucky and Breastfeeding:
- Forty-three states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands have laws with language specifically allowing women to breastfeed in any public or private location.
- Twenty-eight states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws
- Twelve states and Puerto Rico exempt breastfeeding mothers from jury duty

I did notice that Kentucky does not actually have any breastfeeding laws for the workplace. I’ll continue to look into this, in the meantime for those living in Kentucky can you help?

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