Let’s Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week give-away!

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 170 countries to encourage breastfeeding and improve the health of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration made by WHO and UNICEF policy-makers in August 1990 to protect, promote and support breastfeeding.

Breastfeeding is the best way to provide newborns with the nutrients they need. WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding until a baby is six months old, and continued breastfeeding with the addition of nutritious complementary foods for up to two years or beyond. {source: WHO}

Now I have non-baby kids, three of them being of the teenage variety – and them sending me batshitcrazy regularly to the point of sometimes wanting to give them away for free – you may not know that once upon a time I was a babywearing, breastfeeding, co-sleeping , cloth nappying, cloth breast pads using “hippy”! – I even owned a store retailing all these types of products for a few years.  And to some, I am, and always will be a hippy… which I don’t mind, I’d rather be a hippy than a lot of things!

Even though my beautiful sweet adorable babies are growing up to be the reason I have grey hair and am near possibly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I still remember the days when we had the most amazing Mother Baby bond through them early years – before teenagerhood stepped in and made them into aliens.

The morning my first babe was born was one of the most amazing days of my life. He was handed to me, and I was told, “Here’s your baby boy”. If you’re a Mum, you know exactly the overwhelming feeling you have come over you when that first born is put into your arms for the very first time.

It’s the most emotional, powerful, trippy thing ever. It’s like the biggest rush you could ever have.

It’s completely awesome.

And if, like me, you decide to breastfeed your kids… every single time it comes to them feeding – even on the most fatigued, stressed out long nights of the first six months – that moment when they were first handed to you, replays in your mind when you look at them. And every emotion you had plays along with it.

So to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week, hitting a following of 600 nearly 700! on Facebook, and just because I want to..

I’m having a “Let’s Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week” give-away!

Prize #1 – Books to share with your little one. Celebrating the journey and relationship of breastfeeding and the new babe – My Brother Jimi Jazz, and The Wonderful Place – Author, Chrissy Butler. Total prize pack value $40.

My Brother Jimi Jazz is written as a story told through the eyes of a little girl, and the experience of welcoming her little brother Jimi Jazz born at home. This book celebrates the amazing, beautiful experience of homebirth.

The Wonderful Place is written so beautifully to convey the nurturing, safe, loving relationship that grows through full term breastfeeding. A gorgeous book written through the eyes of a breastfeeding toddler.

Prize #2 – For the Mums! A Tasmanian Mt Arthur Boronia Scarf, and a gorgeous Onyx, Purple Crystal and Crystal Quartz Nursing Necklace. Total prize pack value $52.

Handmade in Tasmania by Willywam Whims. Made from 100% repurposed wool felt and eco-dyed. I’m finding it hard to list this scarf since I discovered how warm and squishy it is! Can be used by an adult or child.

Onyx, Purple Crystal and Crystal Quartz Nursing Necklace by Mumma Rocks. This necklace measures 18 inches, but can be altered to suit the length that suits you best [winner will be put in contact with Mumma Rocks if this needs to be done]. A beautiful piece that can be worn all the time, not just while breastfeeding. Keeping baby’s hands busy while feeding, and making Mum feel beautiful at the same time.

How to enter the Saturday Morning Ogre Mum “Let’s Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week” give-away:

1. Entry is open to Australian residence only – sorry rest of the world
2. Give-away opens Friday 3rd August and finishes Wednesday 8th August – winner will be announced Monday 14th August.
3. One entry per person.
4. Prizes are sent direct to the winners from me, except the beautiful Mumma Rocks nursing necklace. This item will be sent direct to the winner from Mumma Rocks. By entering you agree to SMOM sharing your delivery address with Mumma Rocks in the event that you are the winner. Nursing necklace is not available to be exchanged for another item from Mumma Rocks, but the length can be altered to suit your needs.
5. Leave me a comment on this post, telling me a short story about one of “them” motherhood moments that sticks in your mind… you know a moment that will be forever imprinted on your brain. It could be a story your Mother/Father told you about yourself as a baby or small child. Or it can be about one of your kids and something they have done you will never. ever. forget!
6. Show some love to the fabulous *WAHP’s – Mumma Rocks and Spiral Garden – who retail these wonderful products, via liking/following/stalking them on Facebook, and tell them Saturday Morning Ogre Mum sent you! Let me know you’ve done this with your story in the comments below!
7. Winning entries will be chosen by myself and the largest Ogre Girl Child. Our decision is final… a heads up, we both LOVE to laugh!
8. Winners must respond within 48hrs of being contacted via email [so make sure you use a valid email address!!] – if no response is received, a new winner will be drawn. Your awesomeness will be announced on Facebook and Twitter as well.

You can check out the Mumma Rocks retail store here – And the Spiral Garden retail store here.

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