Austin Born

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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

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

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! ✌🏾

Save on Safe Sunscreen for the Whole Family ☀ -

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.)

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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