by Ophélia Martin-Weber
Humans have a deep need to connect with each other, forming bonds and experiencing love. But it isn’t always easy and sometimes it is downright confusing to be in relationship with others. With #TLBloves, we aim to provide families with community support through information sharing, narrative, and personal challenges, all free of judgment.
#TLBloves 2017 Giveaway Bundle includes items from Indigo Willow Breast Milk Jewelry & Keepsakes (our amazing Title Sponsor), Dressed to Deliver, Evenflo, Naked Nursing Tank, Nova Natural, and Silverette!!
The giveaway!
Indigo Willow Breast Milk Jewelry & Keepsakes, Title Sponsor
Indigo Willow Breast Milk Jewelry & Keepsakes is offering not one, but 4 of their exquisite pieces of breast milk jewelry to 4 lucky Leakies (one per winner). The Clair de Lune Breast Milk Ring (their most popular ring, featured in the Grand Prize), the Love You Infinity Breast Milk Necklace, a choice of any of their 5 Breast Milk Heart Charms, and a simple but beautiful Mini Breast Milk Pearl.
1. The Clair de Lune Breast Milk Ring from Indigo Willow features a center breast milk stone made using a mother’s own milk and is perfectly faceted like a high-shine diamond. The stone is surrounded by a cubic zirconia halo and a filigree pattern and the scroll work in this ring is delicate and open for a very feminine feel. The base of the ring is a sterling silver coated with a high-grade, anti-tarnish rhodium plating for added protection.
Retail Value: $377
2. The Love You Infinity Breast Milk Necklace is one of Indigo Willow’s signature pieces and features a few unique design details. The sterling silver infinity shape with hearts gives this unique necklace its name. It includes a high gloss breast milk pearl and your choice of one sterling silver Swarovski crystal birthstone. This necklace also features two sterling silver hearts in back to allow you to extend or decrease the length of this necklace.
Retail Value: $259
3. The Breast Milk Heart Charms from Indigo Willow are made using a mother’s own precious breast milk and are finished with a sterling silver ring to allow it to hang freely from a necklace or traditional charm bracelet. Choose one of any of these 5 beautiful designs!
Retail Value: $179
4. Simple and beautiful, this high-gloss pearl from Indigo Willow is sure to please. This little pearl is made using a mother’s own breast milk and is finished with a sterling silver bail and a ring to allow it to hang freely from a necklace.
Retail Value: $189
For more information, visit Indigo Willow Breast Milk Jewelry & Keepsakes
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From Top to Bottom, Left to Right: luxury bamboo Naked Nursing Tank, Indigo Willow Clair de Lune breastmilk ring, Nova Natural Wool Hood & Cuddle Doll & Rainbow Bead Toy, Evenflo Balance & Wide-Neck Bottles, Silverette nursing covers, Dressed to Deliver Birthing Gown & Nursing BabeCover
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Dressed to Deliver’s premiere product: the 3-in-1 Birthing Gown, was created with the birthing mother in mind! If you are already in your last few months of pregnancy you know what it feels like when your legs are swollen and most of your clothes feel so restricting & many fabrics make your skin itch! That’s why we created our 3-in-1 gowns from extremely soft and luxurious bamboo fabric that is so flattering, you can wear it as a maternity dress.
Its empire waist allows comfort for your beautiful expanding belly. If you want to feel more like yourself and not a patient; if you want to comfortably and easily do skin-to-skin and be able to breastfeed immediately after your new bundle is born, without the clumsy mess of the hospital gown – then Dressed to Deliver’s Birthing Gown is a perfect OPTION for YOU! Our gowns are hospital approved and allow for immediate skin-to-skin and nursing this with snaps on the shoulder that allows for easy access and if you need an IV it won’t get tangled up!
Retail Value: $65, but our Leakies can get theirs for $39.99 here!
Our Nursing BabeCovers are also a mom favorite since they are so versatile! Wear as a scarf, for nursing, as a carseat cover and shopping cart cover!
Retail Value: $35, but Leakies can grab theirs for $25 plus free shipping here!
Designed to support healthy bottle-feeding without interfering with mom’s personal breast-feeding journey, we’ve developed a unique and intentional nipple shape to allow for a proper latch along with an adjusted flow rate that promotes a comfortable drinking pace for baby. These are key components for moms that will be breast and bottle-feeding. This gentle feeding system also comes with our patented Proflo™ venting technology that reduces the potential for colic, reflux, gas and fussiness. To help take the guesswork out of feeding your little one the Evenflo Balance + Wide Neck Bottles have molded measurement markers in both ounces and milliliters to provide and easy and accurate way to measure the volume of liquids without the risk of the measurements washing off.
The Rainbow Grasping Toy is an engaging cluster of rainbow beads serves as a grasping toy and a teething toy. The Brightly colored beads roll against and around one another on an elastic band. This wooden toy is finished with non-toxic stains, so it’s safe for your baby to explore with his hands or mouth.
Retail Value: $20
The Cuddle Doll‘s cotton body and wool stuffing make this the perfect first Waldorf doll for toddlers and young children. The clothing is part of the rag doll, so young children don’t have to deal with dressing and changing their doll just yet. Large enough to cuddle close, but light enough to easily tote around, it’s the perfect doll for kids to fall in love with.
Retail Value: $36 (winner’s choice of color)
Baby’s Wool Hood – Wool baby clothing is especially good at keeping little ones warm because of the wonder of wool. This balaclava-style hood covers head, ears and neck and is just snug enough that babies can’t easily take it off. It also won’t slide into their eyes. This woolen garment is made by Ruskovilla Oy, a Finnish company deeply committed to quality and the environment at all phases of production – from raw materials to the finished garment. The organic wool is ethically produced in South America and the yarn is spun in Germany.
Retail Value: $29
Retail Value: $40 (winner’s choice of color)
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A pair of Silverette Nursing Cups – Silverette are small cups crafted out of pure 925 silver that fit over and help to protect nipples while breastfeeding. Silver is a natural antimicrobial, antifungal, and antibacterial metal that also contains anti-inflammatory agents. It heals and prevents cuts, wounds, cracks, soreness, and infections.
Retail Value: $60
The Recycling Program option which is the possibility to send back the Silverette cups to us after using them and convert them to a pendant with the child’s initial engraved.
Retail Value: $39
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Total Retail Value of the Grand Prize Bundle: $714
Good luck to everyone! Please use the widget below to enter. The giveaway is open from now through March 8, 2017. A big thanks to Indigo Willow Breast Milk Jewelry & Keepsakes, and also to Dressed to Deliver, Evenflo, Naked Nursing Tank, Nova Natural, and Silverette, for their support of TLB and all breastfeeding women.
This giveaway is open to participants in the USA.
The breastmilk keepsakes are swoon-worthy! I’ve been eyeing one for awhile and have been hoping to get one once I reach a year with my triplets!
Spending time with my family is how I connect with them!
Thank you for the opportunity! I would love to win a jewelry piece. I have been nursing non stop for 5.5 years and three kids.
Nursing is when i feel the closet to my babies
Would really like the necked nursing tank
How do i unlock more entries for the contest? I have completed all the tasks .
Favorite things to do with loved ones – we love to have family game nights! We unplug, turn off the tv, leave our phones in another room, and laugh, talk and connect. It is the best way to end the day, together as a family, making memories. ❤❤
Nursing and cosleeping. My kids pour their hearts out to me while we lay down together at bedtime.
When I correctly figure out what a little one wants I feel connected. Conversely when they’re screaming and I can’t seem to fix it I feel a bit disconnected.
I feel connected to my loved ones when we get to spend meaningful time together.
This looks amazing!! Thank you for the giveaway!
To feel connected to my love ones I take pictures with them or depending on who talk to them.
Love my nursing tops!
So excited for this giveaway! Such great products!
To answer the giveaway question, spending time talking with my family with no devices or distractions makes me feel connected
Amazing items! A piece of breastmilk jewelry would be so special! Such wonderful items to make my nursing journey more comfortable and baby happy!
Love all these giveaways! Wish I could win something!
The weekends! I work during the week so it goes by super fast. I love the weekend time that we all get to spend together 🙂
What makes me feel connected to my children is when I can anticipate their needs and be ready to help, encourage them. I love seeing my 5 year old start to do the same for others as well.
When we could spend time together, that’s the best thing for me 🙂
These are amazing products!
This is an awesome sweepstakes! So excited about it. People have no idea what kind of bond you feel with your child while breastfeeding. All the pain and frustration is so worth it when you see how happy and healthy your baby is! Hoping to win so I can have a keepsake as a reminder of all I’ve been through with raising my daughter
The Claire de Lune ring is stunning. I’m almost at the end of my nursing journey (7 years total with 2 kids!) and a keepsake such as this would bring such solace to my aching heart.
I love the jewelry! What an awesome giveaway!
I enjoy having photographic memories of my lived ones around my house and wear special jewelry from loved ones.
This is such an AMAZING giveaway! Every single product is absolutely dreamy! I am keeping my fingers crossed…the Indigo Willow pieces are stunning, I have wanted one since I heard about breast milk jewelry in the first place!
I love cooking with my daughter. She’s so good at it and only 2 years old!!
Breastmilk Jewelery would be such an awesome way to create a tangible reminder of my breastfeeding journey!
Hugs and snuggles keep me connected.
Such an awesome assortment of gifts! I especially love the milk jewelry 🙂
Having time to chat, going for walks, playing, having a meal together, and road trips all make me feel connected to loved ones! Spending time together playing and chatting is so wonderful!! 🙂
I feel I connect most to my loved ones when there are no distractions. No phones, computers, tv or electronics in our way. Spending quality time together as a family outdoors, playing and laughing having fun. Also having a family bed, sleeping together with my kids. They’re the last thing I see at night and the first thing i see when i wake up to in the morning.
Thank you for this giveaway! Breastfeeding without distractions makes me feel connected
Spending time and interacting with them. I love to hike with my husband,’crochet with my mom , and play games and make believe with my kids.
I love morning cuddles with my kids – it’s a great way to wake up and get centered on the things that really matter, before we start our fast-paced routine of getting ready, dressed, fed and out the door.
Books bring us together and connect us. I’m an English teacher and lover of literature, and snuggling up and sharing a new story or an old favorite with my little girls before bed is a sweet way to connect at the end of the day.
Baby wearing and breastfeeding makes me feel connected to my daughter.
Sharing our nightly bedtime story is our way to connect after hectic days.
Spending time together as a family with no screens!
What makes me feel close to my loved ones is when they want to come sit next to me when we are watching or playing. 💗
I have photos of my loved ones.
Would love to have a piece of breast milk jewelry. I have breastfed for the last 3 years and though it has been challenging I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Wow I never heard of many of these items!!
Thank you for the chance of such an awesome giveaway! I love snuggling and nursing while watching a show with my little guy. He’s two and with his little brother on the way, there isn’t much milk left but he loves the snuggles.
Snuggling, nursing, cosleeping all make me feel connected!