welcome to mom cave live um this is a live show that we've been doing for a while on YouTube through google hangout and tonight is the very first time we are trying it here on facebook um the reason that we're trying it on Facebook is because apparently that's where moms hang out we're too old for snapshot where the right age for facebook so here we are we're on facebook finally doing this live well gosh if no one's ever seen us before on facebook i guess who should introduce ourselves I'm Jen from mom cave and this is a antenna is my partner here or in crime hey Dina and Tom guest and this is a very very special guest because we're going to start doing a feature on mom cave called hashtag badass moms and we need to define like the ultimate in badass moms and I think we have Jordan us is the founder of breastfeeding and combat boots Robin hi Robin hello y'all are going to embarrass me with all this badass mom stuff that's okay we've determined that you are about us and we wanted to talk to you a little bit about what you do and what badass moms means to you right so though as i said i'm the founder of breastfeeding and combat boots which is I guess about as badass as you can get serving your country and in effect kind of my my little tagline is giving the breast for baby and country it takes pretty strong woman to to do that to be strong enough to serve her country and also you know give give the breast for for her baby and you know you were talking about badass moms and I was thinking in my head some of the moms that I've worked with over the years sending their milk home while they're stationed in Afghanistan pumping their milk while they're out on the range in between weapons qualls pumping in the back of a humvee and I can think of you know you're police officers pump it in their patrol car or Annie t in the back of the ambulance those those kinds of things so yeah there's lots of badass moms out there Wow while we have you I want to think yeah I want to thank you for your service and all the badass moms that work with you as well thank you we got you same here in here it is it makes us feel a lot less badass because we complain about pumping in our car on the way home from an audition t-then but uh yeah yeah that kind of thing but anyway I'm I'm fascinated by deployed members the military sending the rest milk home how does not work yeah so there's there's there's a bit of getting it all kind of kind of together so of course they've got to find time to pump while there while they're out there in between you know Afghanistan getting bombed for heaven's sake so finding the time to pump and then they've got to get it frozen they've got to package it up they've got to figure out how to get it to UPS FedEx DHL you know some way to to get it shipped out and the one story i'm kind of thinking of with with the mom that did this most of her most of her pumped milk made it home just fine but it had to go through customs and in one instance she was sending it through and it was held up by the Department of Agriculture because it was an animal milk and they had to get home at nerium and because it got held up so long that one she didn't didn't make it because the milk at that point started to thaw and and they had to ditch that entire igloo cooler full of it don't don't razeen but got it can be done moms do ship it from from overseas or if they're here in the states and there's some kind of training or something like that they they can ship it um you know obviously across state lines that sort of thing so yeah lots of planning on that one wow that's amazing you know where there's a will there's a way I've got a picture of a mom that was out doing training out in the you know the eastern part of Washington state and she was out there for a couple of weeks and she had a Yeti cooler and those things keep stuff really really cold and there's a picture of her with that thing full of her frozen milk and she was pumping washes out there and gonna bring it bring it all home with her wow that's amazing syndication that's dedication yes yes yeah well it makes me think about how it's not just about breastfeeding however moms choose to feed their babies or or whatever we do as mom's we have to put so much thought into like the planning and the logistics of it and if you want to be a working mom um even more so and a huge amount of such a way I'm he's these guys are consider that are taking our lunch break it or not eating for themselves because they've only got a little limited amount of time you know one of the things that the military they have policies in place and that's all fine and great when the following policies are followed but a lot of times the mission comes first and so that takes precedence and you got to fit in that pumping session even it's only five minutes wherever wherever you can so that's that's definitely an issue as well do you have any embarrassing breastfeeding stories to share with us embarrassing we like to embarrass people mmm my own embarrassing breastfeeding story I don't know how embarrassing it is um I was at work and you know I kind of didn't say what my own thing was I was I was active duty in the Navy and I was an aircraft mechanic when I was in I've now switched gears and of course in the lactation consultant and this was before there were any policies anything kind of covering me and so I had to make do and kind of pump whenever I could figure it out and there was no backup for me and so I had been at work for 12 hours and they came to me and said oh you've got to stay another six and stand watch out on the flight line sandy watch is just what it sounds like I got a walk around the hangar bay and make sure nobody's trying to steal airplanes I have been pumping all day my bottles were full i had no more space for any kind of milk and i was a wonderful producer so I had tons of milk and I'm looking at these bottles going what am I gonna do it this milk I'll be damned if I'm going to pour this down the drain I worked too hard for it so you know what I did back it went green cap one haha reuse recycle night and um so if people think that's embarrassing maybe so I you do what you need to do and then I had a freed up bottle so I can I could pump and take some more home for my baby boy wow that's amazing yeah what is the bigger never occurred to me you do them cool i'm sorry i said i need to draft you go ahead go ahead I never occurred to me when I was ever in a situation like that to drink the milk and reuse it like that's brilliant oh I once had someone walk in on me when I was in the restroom like hand expressing cuz I was it hurt so bad he and I was tough work and somebody walked in and I'm like hi how are you um I wish I would have thought of your idea and so if anybody ever asked me what it does I can honestly tell them what it tastes like it is very sweet now they need ice cream out of it okay yeah were there is one buddy makes ice cream out of it wasn't that like over in Britain or something like that somebody was somebody was making ice cream from human breast milk yeah it would get there from the work is super sweet no sugar necessary what is the biggest thing you want people to know about your organization like the thing that if you can get across anyone that you're you know that we should really know the most breastfeed no combat boots is here for for any mom military active duty guard reserves I think I said earlier your first responders so police firefight or any of these kinds of professions that that aren't your typical type of professions we're here to advocate for you whether that means you know your command your co-workers friends that are kind of like really do you think that's going to work we're here to inform the moms give them the information they need to be successful and we just here to support them sometimes all these moms need or is a virtual you know pat on the back saying hey you did a really great job and that means the world when you're out there on the range pumping or you've been sent out for two weeks to the eastern Washington State and nobody else is doing this and you're like do I keep doing this do i keep getting up at two o'clock in the morning when I haven't slept and I'm dirty and I'm filthy and I'm hand expressing because there's no electricity out here is it worth it for me to keep doing this yes it is worth it for you to keep doing it and we're here to tell you that you're doing a great job and that you are indeed a badass mom we have a bad asthma in from South America audia Serrano hi Claudia thank you for joining us hi kha liya hai and we got Barbara kalsi she's one of my friends we've got a couple of mother my girlfriend's there slowly but surely coming on in to talk to us I think it's great we should tell them we have a giveaway running over on the blog um Robyn has all kinds of awesome Brett badass a breastfeeding and combat boots stuff and we're gonna oh she's displaying it talk so it chilled you have good so um if you can't see this is my fancy little basket there'll be a signed copy of my book um there's a water bottle there's a t-shirt I have other colors so I have the green that I'm wearing I have the hot pink I have blue if you're Navy I have tan and I have sizes so whoever gets picked let me know that information and then a little onesie for your baby it also says my mommy breastfeeds in combat boots blue or pink depending obviously so that will be the basket for the winner that's adorable thank you so much so the way that people can enter that giveaway is you go to our website which is mom cave TV com and you'll see a blog post about this and way way at the bottom you'll see where you can enter um and then the other way you can enter of course is to comment on this video so if you're watching this here live and have a great breastfeeding at work mommy embarrassing fail story we'd love to hear that yet so leave it to us in the comments yeah what was your most embarrassing thing John there's been so many um I was driving I had a long day working and then I had a long drive home like like three hours driving home and I had to get home quickly because there was a sitter and I didn't have time to pump before I got in the car so finally after like 45 minutes in the car i was i was like in pain so i decided i was just gonna pump in the car so I did and then I got skipping traffic and there were like truck drivers you know how they're really high up in your look down like looking down at me and I just kids what are you gonna do what are you gonna get what will pay attention me over here check out the tribe maybe I think our time is about up but thank you so much for being here with us Robin um everybody support the organization go check out tell them where your website is so uh ww-p RSVP on FM com it's huge long you gotta type whole thing in or just google breast feeding on combat boots i'm top of the page so come find me come get some support say hello yeah you've mentioned your Twitter and your Instagram as well right yeah come on Twitter so you can hit me up there and i'm also on instagram i love getting pictures from moms that are being successful breastfeeding in uniform pumping and will repost them and you'll get a lot of support from from other moms that way to more badass mommy that reminds me instagram yeah awesome nevermind we have been talking about collaborating i'm making a video i'm putting together a lot of photos of women in in at work but also women in the military breastfeeding so if you have a photo you want to send to us we're going to make a video out of all of those at some point and just sort of celebrate it we're jenna from mom cave we work with a couple of other mommies over mom cave and you'll see them here on facebook soon this uh we can our first time here doing this on facebook so i don't know see how this goes but you can find our website you like it I love it goodbye money physical space yes yeah and I I mean we get to talk to people like the more people that join in my friend Holly just checked in my friend Stacy Stacy says you guys are great this is something that definitely needs awareness I agree this is awesome my friend Laura just join don t know if we do this more often Jen and we do it on facebook we can get a hell of a lot more people to find out about our cool things like Robins organization right this is cool and of course embarrass ourselves obviously cuz that's what we do right we always have at least one embarrassing story per episode but often more so okay we're gonna wrap up for the night i'm going i have my breastfeeding a combat boots water bottle water bottle and i'm not milk bubble are we sure that's water in there Wow no it's jen is there water in there is something else it's quarter after nine kids are in bed so you tell me listen see you all soon thanks for watching um you could watch this back again on mom came TV 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