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PROMO #2 – In honor of our amazing adoption story and happily ever after fairy tale come true, PAXbaby.com would like to celebrate our Rose’s birthday with you in a very special way!

Place a $250+ order today and receive a FREE Vice Versa woven wrap. Vice Versa was designed by PAXmommy Jillian so many years ago and has been a babywearer’s favorite ever since! These wraps have been woven by Girasol and will be arriving sometime in December. With all the holiday hub bub, the PAXmoms make no promises but hope to have these beauties in your hands by the first of the New Year!
The weft, weave, & length will be chosen by PAXbaby!

Enjoy a FREE wrap in Rose’s name; happy birthday, baby girl! Twelve years in our arms, and we are so very glad!

**while supplies last, no returns on promotional orders. PAXbaby will not be able to accept returns on any part of your order so please shop wisely.
***Shipping in the States will be free; International winner will pay exact shipping costs
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Sharing the love in the best way we know how, the PAXmoms are sending a FREE woven wrap with every order over $180. We will choose the manufacturer, the design, & the length; all you need to do is press ORDER! Mention PAXrocks in your order comments and you will get a great surprise in your package! What will you get; time will tell! This fun promotion will run through Monday, but don’t hesitate to order; PAXbaby rocks!!!!
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Please remember, this is supposed to be all in good fun, so please be respectful of the PAXmoms! We look forward to seeing your un-boxing photos!!! Enjoy! <3

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• No returns on promotional orders. PAXbaby will not be able to accept returns on any part of your order so please shop wisely.
• You may make an unlimited number of orders, but we ask that the shipping address match your own PAXaccount.
• We cannot apply this promotion retroactively to orders placed before today or custom links, thanks!
• We pick the manufacturer, size, and design! Trust the PAXmoms!
• While supplies last! We have plenty of wraps, but this a weekend long event so shop early! Promo ends on Monday September 26th , 2016 at midnight PDT!!!
• Orders including a gift certificate will be exempt from this promotion.
• ** restrictions apply; carriers excluded from the sale: JPMBB, Wrapsody, Soul Linen, MJ, BB Slen, West of the 4th, LJ Handwoven Wraps, Tula Baby Carriers, Wrapsody, as well as ALL previous orders, lay away links and preorders!!!  Thank you!
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Thank you to Kowalli for donating to not only our #PAXretreat2016 but to our #PAXbirthday, too!

THANK YOU, thank you, THANK YOU!

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A BIG thank you to je porte mon bebe for providing this fabulous hybrid ring sling to our #PAXbirthdayparty! If you are looking for your baby’s first ride to be soft, supportive and comfortable for both of you… this is the sling!

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Happy Birthday to PAXmommy Jillian!

We know that this has not been your happiest, or most rainbowy birthday to date, but trust us when we say that you are LOVED!
We are not only your good friends, but your confidants, your supporters, and your teammates. We have your back through the good times, and the bad.
We will get through this, together, and look forward to celebrating another year by your side!!
Cannot wait to see what this year will bring!
We love youu!!
Love,

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On Sunday, PAXbaby will be *over the rainbow* with you at our birthday party celebrating eight years of awesomeness! Help us party from afar by participating in PAXbaby’s Silent Auction to raise $ for The Carrying On Project! And if you are coming in person to get your groove on and meet Kristi from Wrapsody, Joanna from the Center for Babywearing Studies, and the PAXmoms, you can win a FREE Sakura Bloom ring sling by entering in our contest of cuteness!

There are 5 categories :
Best Rainbow Baby Carrier
Cutest Rainbow Outfit
Greatest Rainbow Family
Most Rainbows Worn
Biggest Rainbow

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Will you be the winner of a FREE Sakura Bloom ring sling!?!?! See you then, and THANK YOU to Sakura Bloom for our amazing prizes!

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A HUGE thank you to ALL of our AMAZING sponsors thus far! Without your kindness and generosity, we would not be able to have SUCH AMAZING goodies to give away at events such as our PAXretreats, and our #PAXbirthdaybash8 ! As the packages continue to roll in, we get more and more excited for you to SEE EVERYTHING!!!! We are just SO lucky to have such an unbelievably talented  following of WAHMS and small business owners support us along our rainbowy-babywearing journey!!

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MamAmor Dolls
Mama’s Go To Salve
Spray Pal
Rockin Green Laundry Soap
EZ PZ
Love Factory New York
Little Sapling Toys
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MomsNecklace
SqueensBeads
Kay Circus
Soft Bums
Bamberoo

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Wrapsody
Erizo Baby Slings
MaMoose Creations
Stickers Plus
Goddess Homemaker
David Morgan Graphic Design
The Buttercup Boutique
Rumpeez
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Indigo Kids Creations
Sticky Tees
Mother Love
Vinyl Creations by Jenn
Turk and Bean
Busy Bangles
BecoBaby Carrier
Ergobaby Carriers
Gathering Hands
Doula Jackie
Harlow05
Bluebird Babe Boutique

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Blessed Beginnings
Little Lovely
Kay Circus
Mariposah
Bitey Beads
Judy & Park
Under the Nile
Pomtree
Kowalli
Tula Baby Carriers
GDiapers
Grovia
Sakura Bloom/
Susana’s Mobile Massage Therapy
PAXdaddy Wraps
Ohana Handwovens

Sugar and Dreams

THANK YOU! Thank YOU! THANK you! For real.

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When rainbows and cookies collide, there is pure edible magic! Custom Creations by Cody are little tiny sugar filled works of art, baked and decorated by Cody for PAXbaby’s super fun Saturday give away! Will you be the lucky winner of these delicious rainbows that will literally melt in your mouth?

Enter our raffle, and don’t forget to share the post and LIKE her page for extra entries! The cookies shown here ($25 value) will be on their way to you after our winner is drawn!

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More info about the cookies!

Cookie Ingredients : Flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla extract, almond extract, salt Royal Icing Ingredients : Sugar, Meringue Powder (corn starch, egg whites, sugar, gum Arabic, calcium sulfate, citric acid, cream of tartar, artificial flavors, silicon dioxide) corn syrup, vanilla extract, artificial colors

About Cody : I started decorating after I stumbled across some cute cookies on Pinterest while planning my daughter’s 4th birthday. I’m the kind of person who likes to try new things so I gave it a shot and was immediately hooked! It became my creative outlet and I would decorate for fun during nap time or after eveyone else went to bed and has evolved from there. Everything is made from scratch by me and is baked and decorated to order. GOOD LUCK!!!!

This giveaway is free for any of our US PAXfriends!! International PAXfriends are encouraged to enter, but will be responsible for shipping fees :). The winner will be emailed once the drawing comes to an end on Saturday, August 22nd, 2015!! Shipping address must be confirmed via email within 24 hours, or a new winner will be chosen!! For this reason, make sure to check your email (including your Junk folder!!)

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In a few short weeks, PAXbaby.com will be celebrating our EIGHTH birthday party! Can you believe that our little rainbow shop will have been chug chugging along for eight years this Fall? From baby carriers to bento boxes to baby bottles and back again, it’s been quite the adventure with PAXbaby!

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Please save the date of September 20 to spend with your favorite mamas; PAXbaby’s birthday bash features a very special speaker, Kristi from Wrapsody!!! Our party is right smack dab between PAXretreats with Joanna from the Center for Babywearing Studies and will be very much like a mini retreat day! Food, beverages, entertainment, and awesome company will all be included with your ticket!  In honor of our creative and varied past, our prizes to be won at the party range from baby carrier accessories and stalk free passes to an AMAZING wrap converter to handmade dollies to wrap scrap quilts, diapers, clothing and jewelry! Tickets will go on sale next week, but for now, be sure to mark September 20 with a RAINBOW on your calendar; you do NOT want to miss this PAXilicious babywearing event held in Temecula, California where the sun is always shining!

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What do these little detectives spy!?!?

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Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you

Happy birthday dear Cate,
Happy birthday to YOU!!!
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How is this little lady ONE year old already??! It seems like only yesterday we were all waiting for her arrival. What a year it has been!! What a wonderfully loving and curious little being she is! We cannot wait to see who you become.
Love you #babycate!

Love, the PAXmommies
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PAXbaby is super duper excited to have #babycate’s Girasol legacy wrap back in time to stock for her FIRST BIRTHDAY! This has been the fastest year, and to celebrate her amazing 365 days being earthside, #babycate would like to give away a *freeeeeee* WRAP CONVERSION RING SLING!

The rules are simple – comment here with which weft you would prefer AND make sure that your name at the PAXblog and account information at the PAXwebsite are the same so we can send you your gorgeous prize!

** WINNER WILL BE DRAWN on MONDAY OCTOBER 27th at 9AM PDT**

**Fine print :

1. The Surprise Rainbow ring sling is one size (around 78″ inches.)
2. The weft choices are *cuervo* (black) or *rosa fuschia* (pink!) You may choose one or say either and we will choose for you!
3. You may only enter once, but as many people in your household with a PAXaccount may enter.
4. Shipping is FREE in the USA, but if our winner is International, we will let you know how much the shipping will be.
5. Enter, share, and please stay updated for our SURPRISE stocking next week! Details will be announced soon!

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A HUGE *happy happy* goes out to our amazing manager, co-worker, and FRIEND, PAXmommy Brianna!!

PAXbaby.com would seriously not be the same without her!

WE LOVE YOU, FRIEND!!

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Happy birthday to our Rose & also happy National Adoption Day 2013!

Our special girl is nine years old today, and such a blessing to our family!  To help us celebrate, I thought that you might like to read her story and enjoy the perfect timing of our life!

3 months into my second pregnancy, PAXdaddy was at a funeral for the mom of a little boy in the elementary class that he was co-teaching that year. Another mom approached him and asked if we were still interested in adopting at some point… He answered YES! however we are currently pregnant… She said, you never know, maybe the due dates would match, and we could have “twins!!” We arranged that she would bring the potential birthmom to our house the next day to interview us!

I was so nervous, sure that 12 month old Baby #1 would do something embarrassing, sure that I would say something silly, sure that this was a pie in the sky dream to have 2 babies join our family together!  When our friend introduced us to Rose’s birthmom, I met an angel!  Her eyes were kind, her smile was HUGE, and her heart was golden!  I so wanted to help her and be able to keep the baby safe, especially when it was revealed that our due dates were a mere 10 days apart!  Rose’s birth mom is exactly my age, but unmarried, and she told us that she was “unwilling to submit her baby to the backlash that happens in her native Aztec culture to a baby born out of wedlock…” She chose to share her baby with a family who would love & cherish the child, and keep that child from the life destined in her own village in Mexico where the child would be treated, she said, like a “slave.”  Although we didn’t speak ANY Spanish at the time and she didn’t speak any English, Rose’s birthmom returned the next day after interviewing 2 other families saying that she had chosen our family to love her baby forever!! She just gushed (in Spanish to our friend who translated) about how helpful and sweet PAXdaddy was with me and also with our oldest child. This was so unlike the men that she had known in her life, and she also valued highly the fact that I would be able to breastfeed the baby!!!

Rose’s birthmom moved into our little guest house and lived with our family for the last 6 months of both of our pregnancies!!!  As we each got bigger and bigger, we planned to use the same midwives and each prayed for safe home births!!!   A bilingual family counselor acted as a translator at her midwife appointments, and came weekly to help work out any issues we needed help with and to also help plan the babies’ births.   At 20 weeks, PAXdaddy and his two pregnant ladies went to have gender ultrasounds to reveal what we already suspected, that both babies were girls!  The fact that not only would the babies be “twins” but that they’d be “girly twins” caused the two mommies a lot of excitement and smiles!!!! PAXdaddy and I decorated the nursery in yellow and white with vintage baby decorations even though we were still cosleeping with Eli and planned to bedshare with the girls as well.  As we nested and planned, we couldn’t help but feel sad that Rose’s birthmom didn’t have these things to look forward to, but during counseling, she assured us that “the baby had never been hers, but had only been waiting for us!”

10 days before her due date, on November 1, Baby #2 decided that the HUGE Mexican feast that Rose’s birthmom had prepared for us to celebrate the Day of the Dead was just too spicy for her, and it was time to evacuate!!!   Baby Lucy was born in our bedroom after 2 hours of labor, and helped me to prepare my milk supply for TWO babies!!!  3 weeks later on November 23, Rose’s birthmom let us know that it was time for our second daughter to be born,  and our midwives returned to help deliver Baby Rose.  I remember Rose’s birth so very clearly that often I confuse the girls’ stories; they are so intertwined in my mind!  The baby was born into our midwife’s hands and set into my arms.  I couldn’t believe that I was so lucky to have not just one baby girl, but TWO!!!  I gave Baby Rose my breast and she latched right on; she knew who her mommy was.  Seeing the baby girls together the first time made me cry; seeing PAXdaddy holding his newest baby girl made me cry; my life was so overwhelmingly amazing – it made me cry.

Breastfeeding proved easier with the girls than it had been with my first baby, but part of that was luck and part was sheer willpower on my part to make it work out perfectly!  My midwives and I decided to keep things the most organized each; baby girl should have their own breast, and actually, my tandem nursing experience has been my easiest breastfeeding success so far!  Eli was still so young that most of the girls’ first 7 months ish were spent sitting on our favorite rocking chair, rocking and reading and feeding the babies!  It took me a long time to get in the groove, but once the girls were sleeping through the night and moved into their decorated nursery at that 7 month mark, I had enough energy to take my herd of babies out to the park on my own which we did every day.  Routine became my best friend since PAXdaddy was working that year from before the babies woke up til after they went to bed.  Weekends were pure family time with hikes, and reading time, and trips to the beach.

Eli doesn’t even remember life before the girls, and they thought he was great entertainment!  He was a bit of a bully as a two year old, so the girls were never left alone with him which is one of the reasons I’m so grateful that I had learned to babywear with my first baby!  I often wore one girl in a ring sling and carried the other on my opposite hip in my arm or in a secondary sling.  Eli was still keen on being worn as well, and I used a framed hiking backpack while pushing the girls in a tandem stroller to help exercise off the baby weight! By the time the girls were 14 months, they had weaned me at 13 months, and were very bonded as sisters.  When we decided to get pregnant again, the jump from having 3 to 4 children seemed so much less daunting because really, once you have experienced life with 3 under 2, you can do anything!!!!

Rose’s birthmom was Baby #4’s first visitor after his homebirth, she has come to each of the childrens’ birthday parties, and blessed us with her company on many occasions over the years until the summer of 2010 when she told us that she was preparing to return to Mexico to become a MIDWIFE!!! She says she wants to help other women in the same way that our midwives had helped her!!  I am so happy that the children have this wonderful, caring, sweet, amazing woman in their lives.  They call her Tia, which means Auntie in Spanish, and have many fond memories of her!!!  Bless her, and her beautiful heart that gave us another child to love and gave to Rose the gift of life!

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 Will today be the day that PAXmommy Jillian has #BABYCATE??

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Congrats to our #babycate game winner, Sarah B in Hawaii, who guessed the closest arrival date, time and birth stats!  You will be emailed to confirm your details!!!  Thank you to Calico Sunshine for providing our rainbow prize!!!!

PAXbaby.com‘s #babycate giveaway, hosted by Calico Sunshine, is a SUPER CUTE rainbow SURPRISE for the PAXfriend who has the closest guess to Baby Cate’s ACTUAL arrival & birth stats!!!

Here are some interesting details to help you make an educated decision :

Cate is due November 5,

BUT, none of PAXmommy Jillian’s biological babies have reached their due dates!

Baby #1 weighed 7 pounds 6 ounces,

BUT, each PAXbaby has gotten bigger!!!  Baby #7 was a whopping 9 1/2 pounds!

With Baby #6, she had 3 weeks of prodromal labor,

BUT, as of today, she has had almost 2 weeks of contractions!

All the PAXbabies have been in the 20 inch long range – not too short & not too tall!

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The prize for getting the closest to #babycate’s actual specifics will win a gorgeous rainbow SURPRISE from Calico Sunshine so guess carefully!!!

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Good luck & *happy babywearing*

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What a week??
I think it is safe to say that PAXbaby.com’s 6th birthday celebration was a HUGE success.

We had games, prizes, presents, and lots of FUN for everyone.

Were you a recipient of one of the 200+ FREE woven wraps that we gave away??

We are SO excited to have celebrated with all of you.

We could not have done any of it without your continued LOVE and SUPPORT.

THANK YOU, friends!!

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We love our FREE Fridays and we LOVE to celebrate, so for this SIXth birthday of PAXbaby, we have SIX FREE giveaways!!  Be sure to scroll alllll the way down so that you remember to enter each one of these 6 wonderful freebies!  Each person can only win one prize, but you are welcome to enter for all 6 prizes!  Thanks for partying with PAXbaby!

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A HUGE thank you to our sponsors this week :

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Blissed Out Baby Gypsy Designs

Nursies When the Sun Shines

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It seems like in a blink of an eye, Baby#5 went from being a big ol’ belly…to a big ol’ FIVE year old.

He is  so sweet, caring, loving, and his smile is completely infectious.

Wishing Baby #5 the happiest of Happy birthdays today!

Love,

The PAXmommies

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Through the last 6 years of sharing the babywearing love, YOU have allowed me to stay at home with my family and to continue enjoying my hobby every day!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for your support!

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