Breastfeeding
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Sep 11, 2026
Jessica CuevasHOST
that is an international board certified lactation consultant, further deepening her commitment to providing evidence-based culturally responsive lactation support.
Jessica CuevasHOST
And she is deeply committed to ensuring that Latina families have access to culturally responsive breastfeeding education, support, and advocacy.
Jessica CuevasHOST
So today she's joining us to talk about La Semana de Lactancia or Latinx Breastfeeding Week and why we're celebrating and supporting breastfeeding in the Latino community is so important.
Jessica CuevasHOST
So Vanessa, thank you so much.
Jessica CuevasHOST
I love this bio of yours.
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Vanessa MoronesGUEST
Log on to the Facebook for Latinx Collaborative.
Vanessa MoronesGUEST
We have many resources on there.
Vanessa MoronesGUEST
We also are going to be doing a launching of La Semana de Lactancia on September 4th and then the closing about an hour and a half on Facebook on September 14th, so look out for that.
GavinHOST
Yes.
JohnHOST
Breastfeeding rooms for moms.
JohnHOST
And I find that a godsend.
JohnHOST
I'm like, "Great, gosh," you know? "Thank you for doing this," you know, providing this public facility to moms.
Emma PickettHOST
I'm Emma Pickett and I'm a lactation consultant from London.
Emma PickettHOST
When I first started calling myself Makes Milk, that was my superpower at the time because I was breastfeeding my own two children and now I'm helping families on their journey.
Emma PickettHOST
I want your feeding journey to work for you from the very beginning to the very end and I'm big on making sure parents get support at the end too.
Emma PickettHOST
Join me for conversations on how breastfeeding is amazing and also sometimes really, really hard.
Emma PickettHOST
We'll look honestly and openly at that process of making milk.
Emma PickettHOST
And of course, breastfeeding and chest feeding are a lot more than just making milk.
Emma PickettHOST
Thank you very much for joining me for today's episode.
Emma PickettHOST
I'm very excited today to be joined again by the fantastic Catherine Stagg, IBCLC, who is one of my returning lactation consultants.
Abby TheuringHOST
I know, the print is so small.
Abby TheuringHOST
Breastfeeding calms a child and can even help your child handle stress better when not breastfeeding.
Abby TheuringHOST
Suckling releases the hormone, uh-oh, colic... cholecytokinin, or CCK, in both mother and baby, which helps them relax and sleep.
Abby TheuringHOST
You may even notice that your child wants to be breastfed when they sense mom is having a stressful moment.
Abby TheuringHOST
In addition, breast milk also contains sleep-inducing hormones, amino acids, and nucleotides.
Sonia EvansGUEST
So I think trustworthy resources, not Dr. Google.
Sonia EvansGUEST
But looking to the state resources that we have, the Australian Breastfeeding Association for breastfeeding can be really helpful and maternal and child health out in the community.
Sonia EvansGUEST
So, yeah, I think that's a really valuable resource that often is forgotten about, particularly around feeding.
Sonia EvansGUEST
Yeah.
Katie MooganGUEST
So even on your first baby, it is going to be navigating motherhood, you know, in all its glory of just learning how to handle a newborn.
Katie MooganGUEST
Breastfeeding is intense.
Katie MooganGUEST
It is nonstop.
Katie MooganGUEST
But with the aid and support of other people, it can help But yeah, it is, you know, it's really on the mom and you can definitely, I think every mother will empathize and agree with you.
Katie MooganGUEST
If you then go to bring a bottle in later on, you'll often find they don't know how to do that.
Katie MooganGUEST
So if you want your baby to take a bottle, even offering 30 mils before breastfeed, maybe any time between four to six weeks and doing it every two or three days just to learn the skill of bottle feeding.
Katie MooganGUEST
Breastfeeding and bottle feeding are two very different suck techniques and they're different skills that the baby will learn.
Katie MooganGUEST
So if you want your baby to transition between both, expose to both and keep the bottle in on a regular basis.
LaurenGUEST
Yeah, it is such a weird.
LaurenGUEST
I feel like that is honestly one thing like thinking back to the car ride to the hospital when my husband was like, do we save you or the baby? That's something that's actually a different conversation to have of like, if an emergency happens, how important is breastfeeding to me? And are you okay, like being pumped unconscious? Right.
LaurenGUEST
I think that that's like a good conversation to have.
LaurenGUEST
And they knew how important it was to me.
Lauren PapanosHOST
And prolactin is released in response to nipple stimulation.
Lauren PapanosHOST
Suckling induced suppression of this hypothalamic generator is what prevents the cyclical ovarian activity beyond the prolactin.
Lauren PapanosHOST
And so the research says that prolactin itself is not the sole or even the primary mediator of this suppression in humans.
Lauren PapanosHOST
It's the neural suckling signal is actually the controlling input.
Lo MansfieldHOST
And I tell Kelvin now, my husband now, and we have four kids, like I will be 78 and still be like, honey.
Lo MansfieldHOST
Can I help you with breastfeeding? You know, I just like picture myself still like, you want to talk about second night syndrome? Like, I just think it will never, that desire to just sit in this space and be with someone.
Lo MansfieldHOST
Obviously, I'm not like having the child, but be with them.
Lo MansfieldHOST
I just don't know that it'll go away.
Vanessa MertenHOST
Thank you for tuning into The Pregnancy Podcast.
Vanessa MertenHOST
This episode is your guide to weaning and how to stop breastfeeding without stress.
Vanessa MertenHOST
Most breastfeeding resources are full of information on why you should keep going, and they lack practical help for when you are ready to stop.
Vanessa MertenHOST
If you've gone looking for guidance on weaning, you've probably found long lists of reasons not to quit and a pile of anxiety-inducing articles about everything that could possibly go wrong.
Vanessa MertenHOST
Breastfeeding is amazing, and I'm a huge advocate for it, but every mom will reach a point when she's ready to stop, and when you're there, you should have access to evidence-based judgment-free support.
Vanessa MertenHOST
So this episode is here to take the anxiety out of stopping breastfeeding.
Vanessa MertenHOST
We'll cover when to wean, how to do it gradually and comfortably, how to lower your risk of complications, and how to handle the emotions that can come with closing this chapter.
Vanessa MertenHOST
Plus, I'm going to share a very silly hack that I used with both of my babies that really made weaning much easier.
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