The Breast Milagro

Meet my flower child, Lucy!

Our new page is live today. Please Click on "The Breast Milago: Little Miracles" link above to visit and LIKE the NEW page. This will keep you connected with our efforts on breast health for new moms and breastfeeding.

Our first feature is on Military Moms. Find codes in the opening text on the Little Miracles page to save 20% on a Valentina pendent and to lend your support for two great organizations!

Breastfeeding in Combat Boots! | The Breast Milagro Blog Breastfeeding in Combat Boots! The Breast Milagro Company’s mission of advocacy continues to evolve and expand. The more we learn, the more we share. The more our community grows, the more select breast health care and support groups we can help. And to share all the amazing stories properly, we are…

Cary S. Kaufman, MD, Past Chairman of the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers, responds to the turnaround by The American Cancer Society regrading guidelines for mammography
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Will patients have to hope they can just sense breast cancer? | The Breast Milagro Blog Will patients have to hope they can just sense breast cancer? The Breast Milagro’s response to the Breaking News Story: American Cancer Society, in a Shift, Recommends Fewer Mammograms A doctor reading mammograms at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The American Cancer…

The inspiring- and creative - stories continue. Share yours.

The Breast Milagro proceeds help support specific advocacy groups fighting to prevent breast cancer or providing care/resources for survivors.
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Mastectomy tattoos symbolize breast cancer survivor's powerful story "I felt like I did something for myself...not because it was what my doctors told me I had to do. I took back control."

October 11th - Peak Hike - Marin County, CA
For our friends - living in or traveling to - the north western US, this is a great, healthy, fun way to show your support. The Breast Milagro Co. believes in the Breast Cancer Fund's mission and approach. To participate in the event, check out the link here.

Breast Milagro sales help support very specific service groups who have a direct impact on preventing the disease or providing actual support to Breast Cancer Survivors.

"It's never been my goal to put up a fight, but rather to live in a way that makes me feel alive." - Leslie Vanoni, breast cancer survivor

Join Leslie & other inspiring people on Oct. 11 to stop breast cancer before it starts: http://bit.ly/PeakHike

We had a fantastic time attending our first ever ILCA Conference (International Lactation Consultants Association.) We met this wonderful woman from North Carolina who works with the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters. She helps run their Milk Bank that brings donated breastmilk to newborns in need of life-saving nourishment. We are amazed by the work they do! We are humbled and excited to support these profound efforts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfuTWmQNDaY

The Breast Milagro at ILCA Ashlynn Baker from The King's Daugther's Milk Bank in Norfolk, Virginia at ILCA

Hopes for keeping life grow to dreams of giving life.
A Message from Leslie: Our Story Continues…

See how our story has unfolded: From grandmother to mother, from mother to daughters, we’ve come full circle!

We’ve always been anchored by our mission of supporting women diagnosed with breast cancer. In fact, The Breast Milagro grew out of my mother’s breast cancer and her survival against all odds. And our first calling has been bringing to women with breast cancer the hope for long life that The Breast Milagro embodies.

Yet as more and more women have discovered us – among them my own daughters and many other family members – they have shared with us those things that matter most to their breast health. Listening closely to these women, we discovered their breast health concerns. These include the important issues of lactation and breastfeeding, so closely linked to a new mother’s hopes and dreams for her child.

In the Milagro tradition, breast milagros have been symbolic of the wish for breast milk to nourish new life. Life-giving breast milk is critical for infant survival and for heightened childhood health. There is no more frankly feminine need than to provide this, the best nourishment for our babies.

In this spirit, we have expanded The Breast Milagro mission to serve all breast health hopes and concerns. The tradition of The Breast Milagro is genuinely tied to the breast health dreams of sustaining life and to the breast health hopes of holding onto life. We hope you will join us on this journey.

PS. Please share your thoughts below in comments. We are also thinking about a new group page called: Breast Milagro: Little Miracles - What do you think?

At the ILCA conference. Meeting some great people and learning so much! We are excited to branch out to the breastfeeding community. Breast milagros not only represent breast health but also breastfeeding and nourishment. We are sharing our "modern take on an old tradition." NuAngel, Inc. Belly to Breast: Fairhaven Health Happi Tummi

Today might represent the start of a very hard week. Support groups and friends are so important. We need them! Who's your "shoulder to lean on?"

Treatment for Chemo Brain?? REALLY!!?!! http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2015/03/study-reveals-treatment-women-breast-cancer-suffering-cognitive-difficulties #.VQqWB2AimB4.twitter

Study Reveals Treatment for Women with Breast Cancer Suffering Cognitive Difficulties Mental training exercises developed at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have been shown to help mitigate the effects of "chemo brain"