Is your Baby weaning from the Breast? Need some expert advice? This week of The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast is for you.
Episode 35 Weaning from Breastmilk with our Lactation Expert Rowena Gray
The decision to stop breastfeeding can be an emotional one. For those who've shared those cherished moments of nursing, you know that it's a profound and intimate experience between a parent and child. But as the time comes to transition away from breastfeeding, it can bring about a mixture of emotions and questions.
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Is your Baby weaning from the Breast? Need some expert advice? This week of The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast is for you.
Episode 35 Weaning from Breastmilk with our Lactation Expert Rowena Gray
The decision to stop breastfeeding can be an emotional one. For those who've shared those cherished moments of nursing, you know that it's a profound and intimate experience between a parent and child. But as the time comes to transition away from breastfeeding, it can bring about a mixture of emotions and questions.
Our Lactation Expert Rowena Gray is back in the podcast chair to talk to us all about how to wean from breastfeeding.
Rowena is a nurse, midwife, author and International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant. She is passionate about supporting mothers to have a better breastfeeding experience and is perfectly placed to offer her expert guidance and support today.
We discuss:
- Some of the reasons a woman will stop breastfeeding
- When the majority of mothers wean their babies from breastfeeding?
- What age the World Health Organisation recommends weaning
- How to wean if/when you choose to do so
- What are the physical and emotional changes that occur when you wean
- How to you deal with engorgement
- Is breastfeeding all or nothing? (Is it possible to feed once or twice a day for example if you need to return to work?)
- What if the baby doesn't want to stop but you would like to wean?
- Misconceptions about stopping breastfeeding debunked by Rowena.
- Plus more.
This is a must listen to episode for any breastfeeding Mama as all good things eventually come to an end and it is great to have the knowledge and support for when the time is right for you and your little one.
This episode is proudly supported by @mustelaau natural origin skincare, by parents' side since 1950.
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