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Rachel Livingstone, CLC
- Oct 1, 2018
- 3 min
Babywearing For The Win!
October 1-7 is International Babywearing Week! We are happy to celebrate babywearing as a fantastic tool to support breastfeeding, and busy moms everywhere! My family and I are currently in the process of PCSing from Ramstein AB, Germany to Shaw AFB, South Carolina. It's been a busy time in the Livingstone household as my hubs and I pack up our house and get ready for a new adventure. It's been stressful trying to get my two kiddos to "cooperate" long enough for me to get ev
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Admin
- Apr 26, 2017
- 2 min
Mom2Mom Global and Breastfeeding in Combat Boots are Joining Forces
Tacoma, Washington and Fayetteville, North Carolina - April 26, 2017 Breastfeeding in Combat Boots and Mom2Mom Global are proud to announce their intent to merge to better provide world-class information, advocacy, and support to breastfeeding military families. Breastfeeding in Combat Boots and Mom2Mom Global are both pioneers in the world of breastfeeding support within military communities. The two organizations have separate, but overlapping, missions. Breastfeeding in
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Brishithe Tovar
- Apr 24, 2017
- 5 min
#MilitaryMonday Warrior Mama
We are very excited to share Brishithe's story for #MilitaryMonday, published on MomsRising. My name is Brishithe Tovar and I was born in Guatemala. My family and I migrated to California when I was 9 years old after my mother got robbed at gunpoint when she was 6 months pregnant. The shock and stress was so severe, my mom developed dangerously high blood pressure and temporary blindness, and my brother was born via emergency cesarean section. He battled for his life in the N
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Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC
- Apr 3, 2017
- 6 min
The New Military Parental Leave--What does it really mean?
Joint Post with MomsRising.org for #MilitaryMonday Paid Family Leave for military families has rapidly changed in the past two years, and the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act brings even more changes. While some of these changes appear to be improvements for military parental leave, several points of the new law have left us with some serious concerns. First, a bit of history. For years, the Department of Defense authorized NO maternity leave, only 6 weeks of “convale
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Nikki Williams
- Feb 6, 2017
- 5 min
A TALE OF MILITARY MILK SHARING AND WET NURSING
This post was originally published on Bed Head Birth, the blog owned by Nikki Williams, a doula, CLC, and former member of Mom2Mom KMC, about her experiences in Germany. We are thankful to Nikki and to the moms she supported for sharing this wonderful story of breastfeeding peer support. One of the things that makes me proud to be a mother of my generation is watching us start to buck the social norms and do whatever it takes in order to get what we want and deserve for our
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Megan Moyo, BSN, RN, ANLC, CLC
- Dec 1, 2016
- 4 min
Megan's Story
Breastfeeding and the military has been a recurring theme throughout my life. Let me explain. I am an Army Brat. My mom was in the military and had three babies while active duty, and she breastfed all three of us at a time when the Army was not very supportive of breastfeeding. Because I watched her breastfeed my younger siblings, I knew this was the only way that I wanted to feed my babies. She was my first breastfeeding role model. Fast forward to my senior year of high s
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Amy Barron Smolinski, MA, ALC, CLC
- Nov 15, 2016
- 5 min
Breastfeeding in Uncertain Times
This is not a political post. Mom2Mom Global is a registered nonprofit organization, committed to ethical compliance to all federal regulations regarding 501(c)3 nonprofits, including refraining from endorsing or contributing to political figures or causes. However, the results of the 2016 election affect all of us. Some of our members undoubtedly are feeling positively about the election results and some of our members are feeling quite negatively. Everyone’s feelings are
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