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UpSpring VoxBox!

Influenster has done it again!  :)  I just got an awesome voxbox specifically for breastfeeding moms with products from UpSpring, and it's pretty awesome.

In my box there is a blender bottle (more than 12oz!); 9 packets of powdered drink mix in chocolate, berry and citrus that contain fenugreek and milk thistle to improve milk supply; nipple balm; and test strips to determine if breast milk is safe for baby after having an alcoholic beverage. 

So far I've tried everything but the citrus mix and the alcohol testing strips. 

The blender bottle was totally unexpected but I love it!  It has a little strainer at the top to keep the powder from clumping together as you drink it.  The chocolate mix can be added to child or hot milk or water.  I added it to cold milk, and as you can imagine, it mixed about as well as hot cocoa powder does in cold milk.  It tasted like an iced coffee though and I liked it.  The berry mixed intuitive cold water easily, but also tasted coffeeish.  Fenugreek is just such a unique flavor that it couldn't be masked.  It was drinkable, but not my favorite.

The nipple balm is a winner.  It has natural ingredients (coconut oil, shea butter, beeswax, essential oils) and definitely has a waxy texture that softens at one's touch.  It's not as greasy as lanolin and has zero taste or scent.   My baby didn't seem to even notice it.  (Which want entirely true ofthe lanolin.) I wish I had tested this product in my first week of nursing since that was when I was truly in pain...scabs and bleeding and peeling and pinching...all of that is long gone now.   So,  I've been using the balm on my lips and I.LOVE.IT. 

I rarely ever drink, but I'm going to get some kind of lightweight fru fru drink in the near future so I can put the alcohol level strips to the test.  I'm very curious!

Thanks to Influenster and UpSpring for the free products! All opinions are my own!

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