The Milk Making Minutes

Do you wonder about how pacifier use impacts breastfeeding or chestfeeding? Have you heard conflicting advice about pacifier use as it relates to bodyfeeding? Today, The Milk Making Minutes host IBCLC Lo Nigrosh discusses the nuances of pacifier use so that you can feel confident about making the decision that is right for your family.
On this episode you will hear:

• Why pacifiers are controversial
• Why babies need to suck constantly
• When pacifiers are useful
• When to suspend pacifier use
• When pacifier use might be harming milk supply

You can hear The Milk Making Minutes Episode 30 What to Do About Thrush on any podcasting app. You can find the Milkology Blog about Pacifiers here.
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Did you have to fight for your milk supply? Did you have to fight to make choices for your baby that you felt were right in the hospital and during the postpartum period? Did the stress of the postpartum period inhibit your milk supply? Think about how regularly this applies in any ordinary circumstance, and then add to that the stress of being a transgender man choosing to feed his baby his own milk in a place where even the medical professionals who were supposed to be providing healthcare often gave biased information and refused to provide evidence based lactation care.
On this episode you will hear:

• The decision to feed human milk to a human baby
• The inspiring story of Tanius’s primary supporter (hint: it was NOT a professional)
• The persistence of increasing milk supply and attempting to latch
• The impact of stress on milk supply and latching
• Feeding human milk in public
• Transgender specific difficulties with chestfeeding/breastfeeding/nursing

To connect with Tanius find him on his social media:
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To book a lactation consultation with me, visit my website: www.quabbinbirthservices.com. In many cases I can bill your insurance, or create a superbill for you to submit for reimbursement. I offer virtual consults for clients outside of my service area!
Make your voice heard on The Milk Making Community Group on Facebook!
To purchase other books about breastfeeding, birth, or parenting that I love and help support the show, go here.
Head to Apple Podcasts or Spotify for more Milk Making Minutes episodes!Listen to Episodes of The Milk Making Minutes on Amazon Music too!
Follow me on IG https://www.instagram.com/lonigrosh_ibclc_podcast_host/ to laugh about baby feeding (so you don’t cry) and to see photos of guests. Follow me on TikTok to answer questions of the day and ponder systemic inequities together: htttps://www.tiktok.com/@lonigroshibclc
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Elena Kersey gave birth to identical twins in a private hospital in Malaysia where she felt very cared for in the early postpartum period. Her babies had very different abilities to breastfeed, and this meant that she needed to pump, breastfeed and use formula, which was not what she planned on doing prenatally. Elena discusses how her expectations differed from reality and the toll this took on her.On this episode you will hear themes related to:

• The inner mom club that withholds information until you are a mom
• The value of understanding the difficulty of the postpartum experience before you go through it
• The power of great lactation support
• Twin breastfeeding and how difficult it can be
• Breastfeeding a small baby
• The grief of a changed baby feeding plan

Find Elena on her website:www.thepurposeeffectpod.comYou can listen to The Purpose Effect on Apple or on Spotify.You can follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/the.purpose.effect/Head to Apple Podcasts or Spotify for more Milk Making Minutes episodes!Listen to Episodes of The Milk Making Minutes on Amazon Music too!Listen to The Mediation Mama Podcast on Apple or, SpotifyTo book a lactation consultation with me, visit my website: www.quabbinbirthservices.com. In many cases I can bill your insurance, or create a superbill for you to submit for reimbursement. I offer virtual consults for clients outside of my service area!To buy books about pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and parenting, and to support the show while doing it, go to my bookshop!My music was composed by Nela Ruiz. You can get her to make music for your project by visiting her website: https://www.nelaruizcomposer.com/Follow me on IG https://www.instagram.com/lonigrosh_ibclc_podcast_host/ to laugh about baby feeding (so you don’t cry) and to see photos of guests. Follow me on TikTok to answer questions of the day and ponder systemic inequities together: @lonigroshibclc
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Have you ever continued to breastfeed/chestfeed or pump to the detriment of your own health? My guest Maggie discusses how focusing solely on breastfeeding, and not on her physical and emotional health in the postpartum exacerbated her postpartum mood disorders after giving birth to her first baby. After much struggle, and finding the right intensive support, she made sure to create a plan that helped her focus on her health as a whole person when she gave birth to her second.
On this episode you will hear about:

• Lack of support in a busy hospital system
• Going home on a triple feeding plan which led to little sleep and increased anxiety
• Hallucinations in the postpartum period
• Fixation on milk supply
• Lactation professionals and others missing the signs of postpartum anxiety and obsessive thoughts
• Mental health hospitalization with a newborn at home
• Finding the right supports finally and a long road to recovery

Connect with Maggie and bring support to your work community at: https://www.mindfulmamas.org/
Need support from The Motherhood Center? Find that here.
Listen to The Mediation Mama Podcast on Apple or, Spotify
Make your voice heard on The Milk Making Community Group on Facebook!
Head to Apple Podcasts or Spotify for more Milk Making Minutes episodes!
Listen to Episodes of The Milk Making Minutes on Amazon Music too!
To book a lactation consultation with me, visit my website: www.quabbinbirthservices.com. In many cases I can bill your insurance, or create a superbill for you to submit for reimbursement. I offer virtual consults for clients outside of my service area!
Follow me on IG @lonigrosh to laugh about baby feeding (so you don’t cry) and to see photos of guests. Follow me on TikTok to answer questions of the day and ponder systemic inequities together: @lonigroshibclc
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-milk-making-minutes--5834691/support.

Vicki was a NICU Nurse helping people learn to breastfeed for 5 years before she had her own breastfeeding experience. She thought with all of her knowledge of breastfeeding and milk supply that it would go easily for her. Her heart broke when that was not the case and she struggled with low milk supply. She was doing everything right, feeding on demand, pumping to increase supply, and her milk only decreased over time. She felt defeated. It was so hard for her to return to work, but to her surprise, she found healing in helping others feed their babies. It was two years after her youngest was done breastfeeding that she learned the underlying cause of her low milk supply.To join The Milk Making Minutes Facebook Group to reduce breastfeeding anxiety and build your confidence and be apart of a community that gets it, click here.To get individualized lactation support from me, Lo-- go here!Follow me on IG @milkmakingminutespodcast
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