Many of you may remember Alyssa Milano’s terrible experience at Heathrow Airport earlier this year when the security agents made her leave expressed milk at the gate instead of allowing her to carry it with her on her flight. Since then, I’ve been meaning to prepare a “How-To” list for air travel with breast milk. Please note these suggestions apply to domestic travel within the United States.
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What is the Mother’s Day Tradition in your home? How did you spend Mother’s Day as a child? Did you bring your mom breakfast in bed and hand her your crayon-colored homemade cards? Did you go to visit your grandparents and see your aunts and uncles as a family? Did you go to a special place for brunch to celebrate your mother and how important she is?
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Pregnancy is hard. Motherhood is hard. Parenting is hard. These are words I've said in the past few weeks to other moms asking for advice. Each step of parenthood can be difficult - from the leg cramps at night when you can't sleep because your belly is uncomfortable, to the newborn nursing stages of sore and tender breasts, to constantly questioning your decisions about your child's diet, their development, their interactions with others. We frequently hear moms ask, "When does it get easy?"
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In honor of Earth Day, let's celebrate the ways moms who pump can help protect Mother Earth. Here are five quick changes you can make in your day that will help our planet:
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You may have seen the articles about the Meitiv family in Maryland who have had their children, ages 6 and 10, taken from them and placed into Child Protective Services this year for "unsubstantiated neglect". The neglect was allowing their children to walk home alone from a park near their home - less than a mile away.
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Most of us consider our baby's "firsts" and we rarely consider the "lasts". Today I want to address the last gift we will give our children, our wills and other estate planning documents.
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This week my 3 year old picked out Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” from the library. We took the book home, cuddled up in the rocking chair in his nursery and began to read the classic.
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I'm guilty of "sharenting" and even oversharenting, too. The term was first used by the Wall Street Journal back in 2013 and combines oversharing with parenting. Typically, oversharenters tend to be 35+ years of age, share pictures of more than just milestones in their children's lives, and are comfortable sharing all aspects of their lives online.
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MomsPumpHere.com works closely with Stony Brook Midwifery Practice at Stony Brook University Hospital and one of our dearest friends is Pam Koch CNM. She has been chosen for Brookhaven's 29th Annual Women's Recognition Awards (also known as Woman of the Year). She will receive her award and be honored at Brookhaven's Town Auditorium on Thursday, March 19th.
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Congratulations to the breastfeeding women in the state of Virginia! Yesterday, Governor Terry McAulifffe signed bipartisan legislation that allows women to breastfeed anywhere they are legally allowed to be. The law will take effect July 1, 2015.
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"I don't know you - But I want you - All the more for that."
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As a part-time working mom, I'm careful with my money and my time. I'm also careful about the pink tax.
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My cousin is getting ready to have her second baby and our moms and sisters are making plans for how we will help her when the new baby comes. Someone will help with laundry, someone will help with cooking and cleaning while another one will likely help take care of the toddler so that Mom can rest and feed the new baby.
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MomsPumpHere is a technology based company providing information on nursing locations for moms to breast pump and breastfeed. It's a service for moms to use on the go or when planning your day. However, there are lots of moms that struggle with the use of technology and the balance needed to raise their children. When is it important to draw the line?
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Sometimes I feel like we are living decades behind the times, where women could not vote, could not wear pants, or could not hold specific jobs.
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I've talked about this topic before, but I am frequently reminded of the conflicts which moms feel when talking to other moms, whether they are friends, family members, co-workers, or even parenting partners. These conflicting opinions can strain relationships, make a mom doubt her instincts, and bring worry where it doesn't need to be.
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Most of us have taken trips: trips with our friends, trips with our families, trips with our children. If we haven't taken the trip, we've talked about the trip - let's go to Vegas for your 40th, let's meet the Sullivans in Colorado to go skiing, let's get all the cousins together and rent a beach house next year.
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Planning to return to work from your maternity leave can create a lot of anxiety but planning where you will pump should not contribute to that worry. The Affordable Care Act changed part of the rules for the Fair Labor Standards Act and requires employers to give employees “reasonable break time for an employee to express breast milk for her nursing child for one year after the child’s birth each time such employee has need to express the milk.”
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Back in 2010, our government felt that breast pumps were not a medical "necessity" and therefore did not qualify for tax breaks or for any deductions from federal income taxes. Then in 2011, it became a part of the new tax code that breast pumps and accessories that "promote lactation" can be used as a tax break for some women. I am not a tax expert, and this is not official taxation advisement, but here are some things to consider when trying to use this tax benefit.
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