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Ready to Crush Pumping Breast Milk at CES 2025 Like a Pro? This Guide Shows You How.

11/14/24

Travel Tips, Family Health

Ready to Crush Pumping Breast Milk at CES 2025 Like a Pro? This Guide Shows You How.

If you’re a breastfeeding parent planning to attend CES 2025, you’re probably feeling the excitement of the event—and maybe a bit of stress, too. Balancing a packed conference schedule, networking events, and the demands of pumping can feel overwhelming. Navigating it all while ensuring your breast milk stays safe and accessible adds an entirely new layer of complexity to conference prep. With the right support, though, you can fully embrace the CES experience without compromising your pumping routine. That’s why…

2/27/19

Family Health, Pumping & Feeding

Crazy Pumping Stories

If you are one of our faithful Instagram followers, then you have been exposed to some of the crazy pumping stories we have posted over the past few months. As you can imagine, there are many more where those came from! It is insane how dedicated all you mamas are — between the places and situations you’ve found yourselves in while trying to get milk to your baby, we are in awe of you, and can’t help but continue to…

Milk Stork Named To Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2019

2/20/19

Press, Pumping & Feeding, Current News

Milk Stork Named To Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2019

PALO ALTO, CA (February 20, 2019) – Milk Stork, the first-ever breast milk shipping company, has been named to Fast Company’s prestigious annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2019. The list honors the businesses making the most profound impact on both industry and culture, showcasing a variety of ways to thrive in today’s volatile world. Milk Stork was recognized in the Travel category for its unparalleled commitment to breastfeeding, traveling moms, allowing them to seamlessly ship their…

2/6/19

Family Health, Pumping & Feeding, Current News

Count Nursing Mamas Out for Jury Duty

We know that adhering to your pumping schedule at work is tough, but trying to maintain a pumping schedule while on jury duty? What a nightmare! Imagine spending hours on end in a jury box while feeling increasingly swollen and/or leaky, or not having access to proper facilities – no thanks! Fortunately, states are catching on to this dilemma and have rolled out options that provide alternative solutions for nursing moms. As of 2019, at least seventeen states, along with…

New York Law Brings Changing Tables to Men’s Restrooms

2/5/19

Family Health, Current News

New York Law Brings Changing Tables to Men’s Restrooms

It’s as if dads just emerged. As of 2018, New York passed a new law that requires all men’s bathrooms to have changing tables, finally, but that was just the easy part. In 2018, a dad posted a photo of himself squatting on the bathroom floor changing his baby’s diaper. Donte Palmer began his post with, “What’s the deal with not having changing tables in men’s bathrooms as if we don’t exist!” He included a hashtag #squatforchange and his post…

1/2/19

Family Health, Pumping & Feeding, Workplace Support

Moms on a Mission: Winnie Co-Founder

You, as a working mom, encounter unique challenges each day as you step foot from your home into the world. However, a community of driven moms who have been there and done that are here to impart wisdom gained through their years of experience. In our moms on a mission series, we gather advice from women who started companies, ran marathons, became experts and have developed into better employees due to becoming parents. Sara Mauskopf, CEO and Co-Founder of Winnie…

New Airport Law Brings New Freedoms to Moms

11/19/18

Family Health, Current News

New Airport Law Brings New Freedoms to Moms

We all know, as moms, that there is nothing worse than getting scooted off into a tiny, uncomfortable, bathroom stall at the airport to pump or breastfeed. One mom, a superhero mom, for that matter decided she was going to make things a little bit easier for all the moms. Tammy Duckworth is a senator in Illinois, she was the first Asian American to be elected. She is a veteran who served in Iraq, who suffered major wounds causing her…

Providing a Place to Pump When Space is Limited

11/17/18

Family Health, Pumping & Feeding

Providing a Place to Pump When Space is Limited

Since you more than likely have new mothers returning to work from maternity leave, chances are you already know you are required to provide them with a space for pumping. According to Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers are required to provide “a place, other than a bathroom, that is shielded from view and free from intrusion from coworkers and the public, which may be used by an employee to express breast milk.” In a perfect…

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