13: Breastfeeding Journeys: Exclusive Breastfeeding, Pumping, and Struggles with Nursing

Episode 13: Breastfeeding Journeys: Exclusive Breastfeeding, Pumping, and Struggles with Nursing with Gina, Roxanne, and guests Casey and Jordan!

In this episode, we share our personal breastfeeding journeys, both the joy and struggles as we learned how to nurse our babies. All four of us exclusively breastfed for at least the first year of life (and for three of us over 2+ years), but each had our own struggles and approaches.

Gina, Roxanne, and Casey breastfeed beyond the first year, and all struggled with initial latches, clogged ducts, and even mastitis! Jordan pumped with an oversupply for the first year for each of her babies and dealt with lots of latch issues related to tongue ties. As a functional airway dentist, Jordan's breastfeeding journey and struggles sparked her passion to support other moms in their breastfeeding journey as a tongue-tie expert in our area.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Our personal stories of breastfeeding our babies to toddlers
• Breastfeeding issues: painful latch, clogged ducts, mastitis, tongue ties
• What to expect with breastfeeding: stages of milk
• Professionals to support breastfeeding: bodyworkers, lactation consultants, dentists
• Pumping and returning to work
• Oversupplies
• Tandem feeding
• Breastfeeding during pregnancy
• Weaning
• Our favorite memories of breastfeeding

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