CSN | Stores Supports Medela!

I've been working with CSN | Stores for a long while now. Never did I think to look up their baby feeding section. They have tons of options! They are also supporters of Medela products!

My Wee View is hosting a giveaway for CSN | Stores. They are giving away $85 gift card to their many stores.

Check out all these products you can get there below! This is just a small selection of what they offer.

Organizing and Labeling Your Milk

One of my favorite sites {Go Graham Go} is having a great giveaway! 

One of Go Graham Go's readers will win a Medela Breastmilk Labeling and Storage System! This retails for about $16.99 and includes the tray as well as 2 labeling lids and 2 Medela 5 ounce bottles.

 

 Benefits and Features {found on Medela's site}:

• Holds up to 6 Medela bottles.
• Makes it easy to protect, organize and locate milk bottle in the fridge or freezer.
• Compatible with Medela Pump and Save breastmilk bags (sold separately). 
• Lids can be used with all Medela polypropylene breastmilk bottles.

 For Another Great Way to Store Breastmilk Go Here!

Letter From Medela

I got this letter yesterday from Medela. There are some free chats about breastfeeding coming up. I'm spreading the word. Anyone can join in on the chats! Happy breastfeeding!


Hi Mom Maven!


Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week with Medela, August 1st-7th. To help you continue your breastfeeding journey successfully, Medela is hosting two free live chats with breastfeeding experts on Tuesday, August 3 at 11:00 a.m. EST AND Thursday, August 5 at 4 p.m. EST via a toll-free number.



(8/3): Maria Lennon is a Clinical Education Specialist with Medela. Maria has been with Medela for 10 years, is a Certified Nurse-Midwife, and has been a board-certified as a Lactation Consultant since 1985. Maria is the mother of four breastfed daughters who are now grown and having babies themselves.



(8/5): Cindy Wagner, MS, RD, IBCLC works with Medela as a Sales Consultant and is a Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She speaks locally on various breastfeeding topics, including workplace lactation and breastpumps. She is the mother of three sons, all of whom were breastfed, and the grandmother of three breastfed grandchildren.



(8/3 and 8/5): Julie Hamilton hails from Nashville, Tenn., and, in addition to recently earning her certificate in lactation counseling, is a mother of three breastfed children, including 23-month-old twins who are still nursing. As Mrs. Nashville, Julie works to spread the message of breastfeeding preparedness and is dedicated to helping moms and babies have breastfeeding success.



If you're interested in joining this live chat, please email medela@mommavens.com with the subject line "MMM Live Chat" by August 2nd. Include your name and any questions you'd like to have answered during the call. We will provide dial-in information closer to the live chat date.



Do you have a pregnant or breastfeeding friend who'd appreciate advice from an experienced mom? Invite her to join the call, too! We welcome any and all breastfeeding questions. Our goal is to help you (and your friends!) successfully breastfeed. We look forward to seeing you there!



Regards,

The Medela Mom Mavens Team

Breastfeed and Have a Baby That is Less Feverish After Immunization

• I just got an email from Medela. 
• I am excited because I asked if they'd make a button for people to put on their blogs if they post about breastfeeding. They sent me coding to do so. Their button is now on my sidebar! ;)
• They also sent along a whole article about how babies tend to be less feverish after immunizations if they breastfeed! You can read the whole article here.

Can You Breastfeed an Adopted Baby?

• The answer is, "YES"!
  
• I have one sister that is adopted. My mom didn't know that she could breastfeed her. During those times, it would of been hard prepping to nurse an adopted child. They didn't have the breast pumps that they do today.
• Through history they had what is called, "A Wet Nurse" take care of someone's baby. They nursed their own baby, and already had milk, or would just start lactating due to putting the baby on their breast.
  
• This process is much easier now because there is such advanced breast pumps that can be used before the baby arrives.
• Breastfeeding is such a positive way to bond and it's good for the baby and mom too!
  
• Medela has a whole article on the subject here.
  

Nursing Someone With Special Needs

• Once again Medela has surprised me!
• I was browsing their site, and came across a product that would of helped me so much in regards to nursing Mica. Mica was born with a cyst under his tongue making his tongue misshaped, plus he needed a Frenectomy. I had to get a medicine syringe to feed him my breast milk at first.
• Medela makes this product called, Medela Mini-SpecialNeeds® Feeder with 80ml Collection Container. It's for Special Needs babies, but my son could of used this. Preemies that are not able to nurse yet can use this as well.
  

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

• The availability of resources to help employers create a supportive workplace for nursing moms has recently changed.
• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama on March 23 includes a new requirement for corporations with more than 50 employees to provide nursing mothers reasonable breaks and private, non-bathroom spaces so they may express breast milk.
• I'm not thrilled that it extends the right for only up to 1 year (I pumped longer for my son's), and why only work places of 50 + workers? I am thrilled about the difference this would make for mothers in the many states, mine included, that do not extend this right under state law!
• Medela has resources and services available to help employers understand the new requirements, create corporate lactation programs and support moms returning to work. Visit Medela to help your employer better understand what help they can be to you.

Micro-Steam Bags

• Another great new product! This is the Medela Quick Clean Micro-Steam Bags.
• You just place your pump parts and bottles in one of these reusable bags with some filtered water, seal the bag and place it in the microwave for less then 3 min.
• It works better then cleaning your parts in the dishwasher, or boiling water to steam clean them.
• Eliminates 99.9% of all harmful bacteria and germs from most breast pump parts and feeding accessories.
  

Pump Wipes

• I wish I would of known about pump and accessory wipes when I was pumping with both of my babies.
  
• This new product would of been so handy while pumping at work!
• It cleans Breastshields, Valves and Membranes.
• It's Alcohol-Free, Bleach-Free and Scent-Free.

Live Chat

• I got this email from Medela about a live chat with a lactation counselor.
  
• The information is below if anyone is interested:
  

Medela is partnering with the Office of Women's Health in support of National Women's Health Week (May 9-15) and will be hosting a free live chat with lactation counselor Julie Hamilton on Thursday, May 13 at 11:30 a.m. EST via a toll-free number.

Julie Hamilton hails from Nashville, Tenn., and, in addition to recently earning her certificate in lactation counseling, is a mother of three breastfed children, including 21-month-old twins who are still nursing. Experienced in breastfeeding and pumping (at home and at work), Julie works in her community to help other mothers successfully breastfeed. As Mrs. Nashville, Julie works to spread the message of breastfeeding preparedness and is dedicated to helping moms and babies have successful breastfeeding experiences.

If you're interested in joining this live chat, please email medela@mommavens.com with the subject line "MMM Live Chat." Include your name and any questions you'd like to pose ahead of the call. We will provide dial-in information closer to the live chat date.

Have a pregnant or breastfeeding friend who'd appreciate advice from an experienced mom? Invite her to join the call, too! We welcome any and all breastfeeding questions. Our goal is to help you (and your friends!) successfully breastfeed. We look forward to seeing you there!

Regards,

The Medela Mom Mavens Team

Bring in the Lanolin

• With Isaak's birth I didn't even think about bringing in Lanolin to the hospital. It just didn't faze me. I never had to use it with Mica, shockingly.
  
• Make sure you bring Lanolin to the hospital! I asked for an itemized statement from the hospital, and that 9 0z tube that costs $9 to $12 at the store cost me $45!