Episode 39 When Breastfeeding Helps You Step Into Your Power

Giving birth and breastfeeding can be incredibly empowering, but more often than not, it isn’t without struggle.It’s important to remember that great prenatal education and support can empower the journey of breastfeeding.Receiving help from a trained breastfeeding professional during the first few days, weeks and months of your baby’s life can be the deciding factor between a successful breastfeeding experience and an unsuccessful one.

In today’s episode, elementary school teacher and mother to three-year-old Gus, Stephanie Wrona, shares her experiences of how getting the right kind of help really defined her breastfeeding journey.From getting support from a lactation consultant to treating postpartum anxiety with talk therapy and the right medication, it took her speaking up and speaking out to find what worked for her.Stephanie’s advice for the first few weeks boils down to planning nothing, giving yourself grace and focusing on learning your baby. She also discusses the usefulness of support groups, and opens up about how she had to navigate breastfeeding based on her breast size.Tune in to learn about the different types of support you can and should be getting before, during and after your breastfeeding journey!Topics discussed in this episode:

• Stephanie’s journey to breastfeeding
• The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
• Mother math
• There is such a thing as too much information
• How to train your nipples
• Wash, rinse, repeat
• The learning curve is steep
• How body size affects breastfeeding
• Niopple shields!
• Feeling at ease with breastfeeding
• Anxiety around milk supply
• The Edinburgh Scale
• The lid on a coffee cup

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