FREE Friday with PAXbaby & Speckled Milk!

Nianna, owner of Speckled Milk, started making breastmilk jewelry after her second birth, to honor her tandem breastfeeding journey. She makes all the custom made breastmilk jewelry by hand; her mom creates all the breastmilk soap from scratch! Check out her other jewelry creations made from umbilical cord, dehydrated placenta, first curl, first tooth, ashes, dried flowers and more. Send a message (or owl) to Nianna in sunny California for more details!

Today you can {tandem} win a breastmilk pearl (retail value of $65) and also a custom soap (retail $35 value!) If you are chosen for the prize, you will need to send in only 1oz of breastmilk is needed for any jewelry creation and just 3oz for 12 ounces of soap.
Shipping breastmilk is easy; shipping in room temperature for this purpose is perfectly fine.

Good luck, and thanks to Speckled Milk for this wonderful opportunity!

Please like, and share this post to spread the love!! <3

*****Shipping in the States will be free; International winner will pay exact shipping costs!

The winner will be emailed once the drawing comes to an end on Friday, September 9th, 2016!!
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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Shout out to the pumping mamas!!
When you gotta pump, you gotta pump!!

Did you pump that liquid gold?? If so, for how long?
<3 Y’all are amazing!!! <3

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PAXbaby.comMilk for Sailor

“Sailor Avonlea was born via emergency c-section on June 13th in Las Vegas, addicted to and withdrawing from the effects of a pregnancy filled with heavy methenphetamine use, homelessness, and mental illness. After a 13 day long fight between the hospital at which she was delivered, Child Protective Services, and a large team of adoption professionals and lawyers, we were finally granted the right to adopt her and bring her home to California! We are the adoptive parents of her 18 month old full biological sibling, Lachlan, who was also born addicted to and withdrawing from meth, and while we were not anticipating adoption again so soon, when the opportunity was placed in our laps, we could not say no to another little love who would otherwise be lost to the foster system.

We have two older biological daughters whom I breastfed well into their first year; I was actually such an overproducer that I ended up donating several thousand ounces of breastmilk to a local milk bank over a period of several years. When we decided to adopt initially, I knew immediately that I wanted to feed our new baby with donor milk, as I fully believe in its amazing powers to heal the damage inflicted on a newborns tiny body and brain. When I initially approached the milk bank that I had so lovingly handed thousands of ounces of breastmilk to years prior, I found out quickly that I’d have to be made of money in order to afford their “non profit” price of $3 an ounce for breastmilk! Not satisfied with this answer, I turned to the internet, and quickly found “Human Milk 4 Human Babies” as well as “Eats and Feets.” Through both of these peer to peer sharing forums, we were able to provide breastmilk to our son for 13 months! Despite being born a drug addicted baby, he is now 100% free of health issues and is developmentally completely typical, things that I believe the power of breastmilk has made possible.

We hope to provide these benefits for our Sailor as well, especially given the abuse she suffered at the hands of so called medical professionals; for the first fourteen days of her life, she was fed formula, left in a plastic bassinet, and only held every 3 hours to be fed and changed. If she cried for milk before those 3 hours were up, she was left to cry, alone and hungry until her scheduled feeding time came along. No one was allowed to see her or even touch her for 14 days,  and when she finally was allowed to leave the hospital, she weighed a full pound less than when she was born. Our sweet girl has had a very hard time transitioning due to her drug dependency, but she IS gaining weight quickly and eating like a champ on all the milk donated by friends. Our freezer supply is quickly diminishing however, and we are feeling desperate to provide her with the nourishment she needs to heal and grow. We have witnessed firsthand the power of breastmilk to heal the damage that drug addiction, lack of prenatal care, and dangerous maternal behavior can have on a baby, and we desperately want our daughter to be the recipient of as much of this liquid life that she can.”

– Robert and Kirstin
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Please consider milk sharing with Sailor in any way possible! Her family lives in the Bay area but has set up milk drop off points in Southern California as well! Email Kirstin to set up a donation at milkforsailor@icloud.com, and thank you for keeping this amazing family in your prayers! Much love from the PAXmommies <3
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The PAXmommies are BIG supporters of milk sharing and donation.

If you are able to pump extra milk or directly nurse another baby, please consider milk sharing or cross nursing, to help boost another baby’s immune system with the amazing benefits of human milk.

Whether you’re a mom to a baby in need of donor milk, or a mama who can share the milky love,http://hm4hb.net/ is a great place to start!

Baby Bella is receiving donor milk from a variety of breastfeeding mamas and PAXmommy Jillian was her fourth milk sharing mama “from the tap!”

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https://www.facebook.com/BestForBabes/photos/a.382070868291.165369.151825048291/10152397034943292/?type=1&theater

We are SO pleased to be a part of this amazing initiative.
Best for Babes provides amazing breastfeeding support for women and is trying one step at a time to beat “the barries to breastfeeding success’.

Read more about their amazing mission here: http://www.bestforbabes.org/

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We shared this last year, but are going to share it again because PAXfriend Jane is just so amazing!!! This World Breastfeeding Week, let’s not forget our pumping mamas!!!
– PAXbaby would like to give a HUGE congratulations to our friend Jane and her son Kayden, on TWO YEARS exclusive pumping!!! Kayden was unable to latch, but his mother’s tremendous dedication allowed him to continue to receive her milk through his second birthday, and Jane even donated milk to many other babies in need, including PAXmommy Brianna’s Corrina. What an amazing thing you’ve done, Jane!!! 

Are you a pumping mama??? Keep up the awesome work!! WOW!!

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Have you ever used milk for anything other than food for your little one?

Did you know that breast milk can have healing properties?? Hey! It isn’t called liquid gold for nothing!!

This amazing article by Celin Childs breaks it all down for us:

http://reddelunas.ning.com/profiles/blogs/los-usos-medicinales-de-la

“Human milk contains a balance of nutrients that perfectly matches infant requirements for brain development, growth and a healthy immune system. Human milk also contains immunologic agents and other compounds that act against viruses, bacteria, and parasites.”

So that means breast milk can not only help nourish your baby (and others if you donate), but it can benefit anyone else in your home suffering from anything from pink eye, to a sore  throat,  to a stuffed up nose, to cancer!

Feel ookie about actually squirting your milk onto someone? Have no fear!

You can always express into a sterile cup and use an eye dropper for application.

It’s not as crazy as it sounds!! Once you start reading up, and testing it out for yourself you will see that it really does works!

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This small amount of milk can make all the difference for a baby whose mother cannot exclusively breastfeed.

If you have an oversupply or are holding on to a “freezer stash”, please consider donating!

When PAXmommy Brianna fell seriously ill and required emergency breast surgery in June, her Baby #2 continued to be fed exclusively on breast milk thanks to generous donors!!!

PAXmommy Brianna:
I can’t even begin to express my gratitude for the mothers who have been pumping for us and who have directly nursed my baby these past 2 months during my illness, surgery, and recovery. The photo above shows the amount of donated milk my daughter is currently drinking in about 3 days, and each time I open the freezer and thaw a bag, my heart swells. It’s truly an amazing gift.

If you have milk to offer, or are in need of donated milk, these community milk sharing organizations help connect mothers (safely) :

https://www.facebook.com/hm4hb
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https://www.facebook.com/EatsOnFeetsHome

Breast milk is considered liquid gold, and to those mamas relying on milk donations , every drop really does seem like gold.

Some mamas struggle so much, while others seem to be blessed with an overabundance. Please consider opening your heart, and freezer to help other mamas in need.

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