Austin Born

06/29/2023

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Pregnancy is hard work – for the body, mind and soul.
Life Kit spoke with Chelsea Conaboy (.wonder), author of “Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting The Story of Parenthood.” Click the link in our bio for her advice about how pregnancy impacts the brain and how to embrace the changes that parenthood brings.

Illustrations: • LA Johnson/NPR

05/14/2023

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04/10/2023

Talkin’ bout b***s and babies…

Breastfeeding Basics with IBCLC will teach you:

💦 The lowdown on milk production

🤱 How to position & latch your baby

🤷🏽‍♀️ How to know your baby is eating well

🤓 Reading your baby's cues & feeding according to you and your baby's unique rhythms

🙅🏼‍♀️ Preventing engorgement, soreness, and other potential problems (and what to do if it happens)

🧑‍🍼 Early bottle introduction

🔗 in bio to register

09/27/2022

AustinBorn is BACK at Austin City Limits Music Fest this year! 🎸 🎶 ✌️👶🏽
We wholeheartedly believe that becoming parents doesn't mean we can't do things like go wild in the Live Music Capital of the World. Which is why we're teaming up with ACL Music Festival again to ensure that families are welcomed and taken care of while rocking out to ...just to name a few.

AustinBorn will be running two Family Services Tents this time around. Here are a few things we'll have to make your fam a little more comfortable.

* Changing tables
* FANS!
* Hand sani...'cause kids are lovable AND gross
* Quiet place to breastfeed, pump, and bottle feed
* Dry shampoo + face mist to get yourself back to neutral
• Did we mention FANS?

Kids under 8 yrs get in free with a parent and you can use the Family Entrance to skip the lines.

ACL also offers the Tag-a-Kid program and your little one(s) can get wristbands for identification during your time at the festival. We'll see you there in a few weeks! ✌🏾

06/18/2021

Infant CPR & Choking Rescue On-Demand Class 🏥 - https://mailchi.mp/27a910cff04a/infant-cpr-choking-rescue-on-demand-class

05/09/2021

What does today mean to you?

I personally struggle with it. I’m grateful for the wonderful things my boys do in celebration each year AND I also feel a sense of loss and grief. Most years I wish the day by so quickly. Some years I’m able to sit with and enjoy it. This year is the latter.

Wherever you are, whoever you are, I wish you the very best day possible. 💛

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05/04/2021

Recovering from postpartum PTSD

The trauma was a decade ago but is still raw + anxiety-inducing. I’ve never spoken publicly about it because 1.) it took me years to identify and 2.) I was told that it was my fault. “Why can’t she just get over this and move on?” “She’s so sensitive, dramatic, emotional…” So I shoved it away, suffered alone, eventually agreed to participate in the social “pretending”, and then dove into birth + postpartum support in the hopes that I could prevent new mothers from having a similar experience.

The year my son was born I had almost no support. I was alone while raising my son during my husband’s deployment. (BUT xoxo .) Most nights I cried myself to sleep with his heartbeat thumping on my chest. He wouldn’t sleep without me so we were almost inseparable. I don’t remember how I fed myself, showered, got groceries, maintained the house...I don’t remember any of it. One afternoon he wouldn’t stop crying and I had nothing left to give. I put him in his crib and I laid on the floor in the fetal position. We both cried until we fell asleep.

On top of that, at 6 months postpartum I was traumatized by an experience that jeopardized the safety of myself and my son. It crushed me and thus began years of mental health struggles. It stripped me of joy and the sense of security that all humans need to function in an optimal way. And I’m certain that it’s one reason my body cannot hold new life again.

I’m sharing this because I know some of you have experienced this. And I need you to know it’s not your fault. IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. I wish I had believed that sooner and surrounded myself with people who supported and valued me. So here’s your permission, babes, to prioritize your mental and emotional health. Suffering is not an option. And “f**k you very much” to anyone who suggests your mental health challenges deem you unworthy of attention and care.

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ID: mother holding baby in gray and blue ring sling, while sitting on a bed staring directly into the camera.

04/28/2021

Feeeelz. Keep it realz, babes.

04/22/2021

Save on Safe Sunscreen for the Whole Family ☀ -

One thing I do every year as a parent is make sure I’m on top of which sunscreens are safest for my family’s skin. (Did ya know that our skin is our largest organ?! So we need to protect it and what’s beneath it.)

03/30/2021

Summer vibes ☀️

Is anyone else feeling a little weight lifted as the warmth of the sun becomes more frequent? This year, ya'll. THIS YEAR. 😩 We've been carrying it in our bones, our brains, our hearts, our bellies...the constant twitching in my left eye tells me it's there too.

And yet, I'm hopeful. More hopeful than I've been in a very long time. I'm not breathing fully by any means, but I'm breathing more.
Hope.

I went for a walk today and I got lost in my thoughts and they weren't all terrible ones. It was the good kind of .
Hope.

I hear my friends and fam laughing more and leaning into one another for comfort. Sometimes even IN PERSON as it becomes safer to do so.
Hope.

I watch as everything is in bloom again after a ridiculously long hibernation.
Hope.

Do you see it? Can you feel it too?

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