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Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic

Dr Katie and Dr Whitney, two doctor mamas with a special interest in breastfeeding medicine, chat about what life with babies is REALLY like and share things that will help to preserve your sanity and enjoy the parenting journey. Listen in to find the tools and confidence you need to be the parent you want to be and build the foundations of a lifelong loving relationship with your tamariki.

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What does good support look like? Theresa and I dream big as we reflect on the theme for this year's ⁠World Breastfeeding Week⁠: Closing the Gap - Breastfeeding Support for All.

WABA - ⁠World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action⁠

⁠The 1990 Innocenti Declaration On The Protection, Promotion And Support Of Breastfeeding⁠

Women's Health Action event page with resources: ⁠https://www.womens-health.org.nz/world-breastfeeding-week-2024/⁠

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Theresa and I discuss the origins of World Breastfeeding Week, which takes place 1-7 August each year, what it's about and why we still need this global event.

WABA - World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action

The 1990 Innocenti Declaration On The Protection, Promotion And Support Of Breastfeeding

Women's Health Action event page with resources: https://www.womens-health.org.nz/world-breastfeeding-week-2024/

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Slightly late to the party and slightly longer than 50 minutes : our 50 for 50 contribution for Birth Trauma Awareness week, thanks to Birth Trauma Aotearoa.

Theresa and I share our experiences and thoughts on the impact of birth trauma.

Podcast recommendations:

The Midwives' Cauldron

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Health Psychologist and IBCLC

Pregnancy Uncut

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at ⁠⁠⁠⁠TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant⁠⁠⁠⁠Find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Theresa and I share our top tips together on how on earth we can manage to meet everyone's needs (including our own!) at the same time.

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at ⁠⁠⁠TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant⁠⁠⁠Find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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We welcome Dr Beth Shore to our podcast! Dr Beth and I discuss our thoughts on a recent news article about the trauma mothers experience when they struggle to produce milk and breastfeed. We reflect on the lack of breastfeeding medicine education in medical training. We get angry at the ridiculous lack of support and care from our health care system for mums struggling to feed their babies. Newshub article: The traumatic journey mums who struggle to breastfeed face

Helpful resource when dealing with breastfeeding grief: https://professoramybrown.co.uk/articles/f/supporting-breastfeeding-grief---a-collection-of-resourcesFind Dr Beth at Dr Beth's Baby ClinicFind us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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This was an off the cuff recording directly into the podcasting app, hence no intro and outro - I could not figure out how to download the clip for editing! ><

Actually turned out ok now that I've had a chance to go back and listen to it so I have decided to share it anyway. Hope it resonates.

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Ka mua ka muri - Walking backwards in to the future.

La Leche League NZ 60th Anniversary Conference is coming up 19-21 April at St Peter's School in Cambridge, NZ.

See the conference website for more info and to buy tickets.

Emily Writes about Le Leche League and breastfeeding support

Pinky McKay's breastfeeding, parenting, and LLL journey on The Beyond Sleep Training Podcast.

Find Sarah at ⁠⁠Summer Warmth⁠⁠

Find us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Theresa and I share our thoughts on swaddling - when might it be useful and when it can interfere with feeding and bonding.

Early contact versus separation: effects on mother-infant interaction one year later

Baby Sleep Info Source: Swaddling for sleep

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at ⁠⁠TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant⁠⁠Find us at ⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Happy 2024! Theresa and I delve into all the ways that skin to skin is amazing for the wellbeing of everyone, as well as for the baby, of course.

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at ⁠TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant⁠Find us at ⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Sarah and I go on another rant about breastfeeding books.

Excellent new book: Breastfeeding Twins and Triplets by Kathryn Stagg, IBCLC.

Old book but still true: Beyond the Breast-Bottle Controversy by Penny van Esterik

Find Sarah at ⁠Summer Warmth⁠

Find us at ⁠⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Theresa and I discuss this recently published New England Journal of Medicine perspective article: Breast or Bottle - The Illusion of Choice

Support for medical mothers and parents to breastfeed:

Dr. Milk - USA

Breastfeeding for Doctors - UK

MMAMTB Lactation Interest group - Aus/NZ

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at TLC Theresa Lactation ConsultantFind us at ⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Theresa and I discuss this recently published New England Journal of Medicine perspective article: Breast or Bottle - The Illusion of Choice

Support for medical mothers and parents to breastfeed:

Dr. Milk - USA

Breastfeeding for Doctors - UK

MMAMTB Lactation Interest group - Aus/NZ

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant

Find us at ⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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Introducing Sarah Hudson, IBCLC from Summer Warmth! Sarah picked up a book in a used book store with some frankly dangerous advice so we decided to record our rant, because, what else can we do...? There is so little accountability and pretty much no consequences for people peddling harmful advice to parents with babies.

Find Sarah at Summer Warmth

Find us at ⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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What is a responsive breastfeeding relationship and what to do when our babies change things up!

⁠Find us at ⁠⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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There is an endless stream of 100% conflicting advice in the baby feeding, sleep, anything you can think of space. Theresa and I share tips on where these advice comes from and what parents can do to navigate through all the confusion. We hope that our insights will help you separate the useful from the outright harmful, in a way that respects you as the expert in your own parenting journey.

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at TLC Theresa Lactation ConsultantFind us at ⁠Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic⁠ or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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In a nutshell - keep your baby close, keep offering the breast and respond to your baby's cues, keep things as simple as possible. Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Resources:

La Leche League NZ - Our bodies can make plenty of milk in times of stress

Te Puawaitanga ki Ōtautahi Trust - Infant Feeding in Emergencies

La Leche League International - Disaster: Breastfeeding Is a Life Line

La Leche League International - Infant Feeding in Emergencies

Evacuating with a baby? Here's what to put in your emergency kit

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Tune in for an eye-opening reframing of how our society treats breastfeeding. 

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Dr Katie shares a recent blip in her breastfeeding journey. Dr Whitney is good friends with mastitis.Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol #36 The Mastitis Spectrum (Revised 2022): https://www.bfmed.org/assets/ABM%20Protocol%20%2336.pdfFind us at Nurtured: Mother Baby Clinic or email: podcast@nurturedclinic.co.nzMusic "Life is Beautiful" by Music_For_Videos from Pixabay

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Dr Whitney is back! She's been musing about ways we can embrace different breastfeeding experiences and parenting journeys. We discuss how getting to know yourself and your values is such an essential part of becoming a parent. 

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We take a deep dive into how schedules came to be the default way of thinking when it comes to feeding babies.

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Part 2 - why we would rather live in a commune of La Leche League leaders. 

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Part 1 of an accidental mini-series about the culture of confinement...

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Get the lowdown on these "teeny weeny meanies". We share the latest recommendations on treating blebs from the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Mastitis Spectrum Protocol 2022. 

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Find Your Breastfeeding Support is a new Aotearoa directory powered by Women's Health Action that is designed to help whanau find breastfeeding support easily. Take a look to see what services are available in your area or virtually: from publicly funded lactation services to private practicing breastfeeding medicine specialists and lactation consultants as well as various community breastfeeding support groups. 

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at TLC Theresa Lactation Consultant

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We share tips on simple positional adjustments that helps babies protect their airway while feeding and the importance of giving our babies the time and space to organise themselves at the breast. As usual we digress into cultural and historical influences on the way we feed our babies.

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Dr Katie shares her new appreciation of having too much milk for the first time in her breastfeeding journey. Theresa shares some great tips on how to manage this.

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Theresa and Dr Katie "unbox" the Action Folder of World Breastfeeding Week 2022 and reflect on what it would take for all levels of society to support breastfeeding. #WBW2022 #WABA #breastfeeding #worldbreastfeedingweek2022 #buildingbackbetter #stepupforbreastfeeding #educateandsupport #WarmChain 

WBW Action Folder: https://worldbreastfeedingweek.org/action-folder/ 

Find Theresa Yaroshevich at: https://www.facebook.com/theresa.ibclc/ 

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Dr Katie and Dr Whitney review the turning point of her breastfeeding journey including some helpful strategies to boost milk production and baby's milk transfer. We reflect on the culture shock with coming to the La Leche League, where mothering intuitively can look so different to what is presented in the mainstream, and our shared enthusiasm for breastfeeding conferences.

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Dr Katie unexpectedly experiences some of the most common boobie traps as a second time mum and knocks on ALL the doors in an attempt to save her breastfeeding journey.

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Dr Whitney shares her experience with breastfeeding pain and nipple trauma, introduction to La Leche League, and entering the field of breastfeeding medicine. We lament the lack of breastfeeding education in the medical curriculum in general.

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Dr Whitney and Dr Katie chat about their hopes and dreams for this podcast and contemplate the pitfalls of supporting whanau.

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Join Dr Katie & Dr Whitney, two doctor mamas with a special interest in breastfeeding medicine, as they chat about all aspects of babies, parenting, and beyond.

Find us at: nurturedclinic.co.nz or email: kiaora@nurturedclinic.co.nz

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