The ItzBeen Giveaway!

I am SO excited for this giveaway and have to thank Anya at ItzBeen for supporting my blog and providing us with this generous $25 value donation!

Okay so for this giveaway instead of doing a raffle on the facebook fanpage, I'm going to test out my new gmail account: TheVeryBreastThing@gmail.com and see if maybe there are a few moms-to-be out there reading this blog that either don't have a facebook account or were too shy to publicly like a status in order to get a free product. If you are interested in winning this item all you have to do is email me at the gmail address listed above and you'll be entered into the raffle.

What is an "ItzBeen" you ask?

This is an ItzBeen:

As you can see from the picture above, an Itzbeen is a small handheld device (about the size of a beeper) that has four timers that help mommy (and daddy) keep track of the time. For example you can time the last time baby's diaper was changed, the last time you fed baby, how long baby's been sleeping, and one extra timer for whatever you want it to be for (I used it for when I last took my pain killers or for something in the oven later on). At the very bottom of the ItzBeen you can slide the dial to the right or to the left to indicate which was the last side you last started nursing on. Beneath the title on the Itzbeen is a little flashlight button (in case you need to search for your cell phone in your sheets, but don't want to turn on all the lights and wake up baby). There is also a backlight button under the * to display the time in case you're in a dark room.

I give all the credit for being able to nurse my first son to my sister in law, my medela nipple cream, my breast wedge, the my brest friend nursing pillow AND I could not have nursed successfully without the ItzBeen! I heavily relied on this stopwatch while I was nursing because I was so sleep deprived I could barely remember the last time I took my pain medication let alone how many minutes baby was nursing on one side for. Also, time goes by so fast in that before I knew it I'd look down and see it had already been 2 hours since I last started feeding and it was time to nurse again! I also used the Itzbeen as a timer for pizza bites in the oven, because I always had this stop watch gadget on me and when I was upstairs nursing or rocking Ben to sleep, I could check on the status of my lunch without running downstairs and looking at the oven timer.

In my post "BreastFeeding 101" Breast Friend Aimee writes:

"I agree wholeheartedly about the Itzbeen! I used it faithfully for the first couple months and it was a HUGE help. After that, Titus and I had established routines and I didn't need it to keep us on a schedule or help with timing."

NOTE: Winner will be randomly selected on Sunday, February 6th, 2011!