Three Suns Birth & Maternal Wellness Center

03/07/2026

03/04/2026

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03/04/2026

Join us for a Free Community Infant & Child CPR Class!

🚼 Date: April 4
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
🏢 Location: Grace Midwifery Collective, 340 Brakefield Street, Slidell, LA

We’re excited to invite you to an educational circle focused on infant and child CPR, associated with American Heart Association education!

Did you know that when CPR is performed immediately, the chances of survival for children can exceed **70%**?

Why Attend?
- Empower Yourself: Gain lifesaving skills to protect your loved ones.
- Be Prepared: Over 90% of trained individuals feel confident to act in emergencies.
- Join a Caring Community: Connect with fellow caregivers & famlies committed to making a difference!

Together, we can create a safer environment for our children. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn and help save lives!

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03/03/2026

🚨 Recent research is challenging the CDC's strict guidelines on breast milk storage—especially for partially used bottles after feeding.

The CDC currently recommends using or discarding leftover breast milk within 1–2 hours after a baby finishes feeding from the bottle, to limit bacterial risks.

A 2026 German study (preprint on medRxiv, with 44 healthy full-term infants) tested this directly by measuring bacterial growth in leftover human milk after actual bottle feeds.

Main findings:

• Bacterial levels rose after feeding due to contact with the baby's mouth, but showed no meaningful further increase at 4 hours or 8 hours—whether kept at room temperature (~20°C) or refrigerated (4°C).

• Significant growth appeared only after 24 hours at room temperature.

• Refrigerated leftover milk stayed low-risk and stable for up to 24 hours.

For healthy, full-term babies, this suggests it's generally safe to:

• Refrigerate a partially used bottle and reuse it within 24 hours, or

• Leave it at room temperature for up to 8 hours when needed.

Unused pumped milk also proved more stable than the CDC's 4-hour room-temperature rule, with very little bacterial growth even up to 24 hours in many cases, consistent with other recent studies.

The current guidelines are understandably cautious, especially for preterm infants, NICU babies, or those with health issues, who should stick to stricter rules and check with a doctor.

For most parents with healthy babies, though, this new evidence provides real relief: less wasted breast milk, fewer stressful discards, and guidelines that better match actual safety data and everyday feeding life.

🔗 Full preprint: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.13.26346179v1.full-text

03/02/2026

03/02/2026

A training program created with a reproductive justice lens for Full Spectrum Birth and Postpartum Attendants (Doulas).

02/28/2026

Attention local photographers 📸

We have multiple families in our care that are seeking maternity, birth, and newborn photo shoots.

If you offer any of these services, please comment below so that we can update our referral list and connect families with talented photographers.

Please include the locations you serve, as we care for families who live outside of Roswell too ☺️

02/28/2026

Someone stopped by on the 26th and did something unthinkable.

They mowed the front yard and did some edging! In January! 🤣 We got a little behind because our focus has been so caught up in providing care to our families that we slacked on showing care to the yard.

If you see a young man hard at work on the bushes this week, be sure to give him a wave! He’s helping keep Three Suns beautiful for our families.

02/28/2026

Our Blessing Box got a much needed restock! ☺️

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02/28/2026

You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.

02/27/2026

We had our first Healthy Heart Monitoring Class last night! Thank you to those who came to learn about the impacts of nutrition on your blood pressure. Participants with a previous diagnosis of hypertension also learned how to take their own bloo pressure accurately at home.

We will be hosting class 2 out of 4 in March! Each class will be different. ☺️

Stay tuned!

(Photo: Student Midwife Raelene demonstrating how to obtain the best possible reading using an automatic blood pressure cuff)