All Things Breastfeeding Podcast

The All Things Breastfeeding Podcast is a program for both lactation professionals and new and experienced parents. Barbara D. Robertson, MA, IBCLC, owner of LactaLearning and The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor and Jessica Beemsterboer, MEd, IBCLC, who works with Barbara, host the show. Barbara and Jessica share their thoughts and information on All Things Breastfeeding.

The All Things Breastfeeding Podcast is a program for both lactation professionals and new and experienced parents. Barbara D. Robertson, MA, IBCLC, owner of LactaLearning and The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor and Jessica Beemsterboer, MEd, IBCLC, who works with Barbara, host the show. Barbara and Jessica share their thoughts and information on All Things Breastfeeding.

Barbara takes the time to sit down with her LactaLearning co-founder, Nancy Mohrbacher to discuss her journey in the field of lactation.

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA fell in love with breastfeeding while nursing her three sons, Carl, Peter, and Ben, who are now grown.  In 1982, before the lactation profession existed, she began working as a volunteer peer-supporter and found her passion: helping families meet their lactation goals.

Board-certified as a lactation consultant in 1991, from 1993 to 2003 Nancy started and grew a large private lactation practice in the Chicago area, where she saw thousands of families. Since then, she’s worked for a major breast-pump company and a national corporate lactation program. Currently, Nancy speaks at events around the world and trains aspiring and recertifying lactation consultants online via LactaLearning.com. She also contracts with hospitals to help improve breastfeeding practices.

Nancy’s mission is to simplify life for new families, many of whom–without realizing it–make breastfeeding more complicated than it needs to be.

To accomplish this mission, Nancy develops innovative lactation education and tools. Her textbooks for lactation specialists, Breastfeeding Answers, Second Edition and its Pocket Guide, are used worldwide.  Her Natural Breastfeeding Professional Package provides digital resources for professionals for staff training and one-on-one work with families.

Her books for parents include Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers, which she co-authored with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Working and Breastfeeding Made Simple, and her tiny troubleshooting guide Breastfeeding Solutions: Quick Tips for the Most Common Nursing Challenges. Its companion Breastfeeding Solutions app is used worldwide and is available on the App Store and Google Play. Her YouTube channel is viewed by millions of families.

In 2008 the International Lactation Consultant Association officially recognized Nancy’s contributions to the field of lactation by awarding her the designation FILCA, Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant Association. Nancy was one of the first group of 16 to be recognized for their lifetime achievements in breastfeeding.

You can follow Nancy on Facebook, Twitter (@BFReporter), Pinterest, and YouTube.

If you work with breast/chestfeeding families and are passionate about lactation support OR you want to turn your passion for nursing into professional practice, check out LactaLearning.com and consider following us on social media!

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From Barbara Robertson:

Barbara spent some time with Dr. Kathy Kendall-Tackett. She is a health psychologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and the Owner and Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women’s health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett was the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Lactation and is still the Editor-In-Chief for  Psychological Trauma. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma Psychology, Past President of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology, and a member of the Board for the Advancement of Psychology in the Public Interest. Dr. Kendall-Tackett specializes in women’s-health research including breastfeeding, depression, trauma, and health psychology. Her research interests include the psychoneuroimmunology of maternal depression and the lifetime health effects of trauma. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is Clinical Professor of Nursing at University of Hawai’i at Manoa.

Dr. Kendall-Tackett has won several awards for her work including the 2016 Outstanding Service to the Field of Trauma Psychology Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division of Trauma Psychology, the 2011 Community Faculty Award from the Department of Pediatrics, Texas Tech University School of Medicine, and the 2011 John Kennell and Marshall Klaus Award for Excellence in Research from DONA International (with co-recipient, Thomas Hale). She has authored more than 400 articles or chapters, and is currently completing her 35th book, a social history of The Phantom of the Opera. Her most recent books include: Depression in New Mothers, 3rd Edition (2016, Routledge, in press), Psychology of Trauma 101 (2015), The Science of Mother-Infant Sleep (2014), and The Psychoneuroimmunology of Chronic Disease (2010). She is also co-author of the bestselling book, Breastfeeding Made Simple, 2nd Edition (2010). Her websites are UppityScienceChick.com, BreastfeedingMadeSimple.com, KathleenKendall-Tackett.com, and PraeclarusPress.com.

If you work with breast/chestfeeding families and are passionate about lactation support OR you want to turn your passion for breast/chestfeeding into professional practice, check out LactaLearning.com and consider following us on social media!

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Nancy and Barbara are celebrating that LactaLearning, Inc is now 3 years old!

It is hard to believe that what started out as a dream for Barbara has evolved with Nancy into a thriving business.

Now three years later, they offer lactation courses that are different than anyone else’s. Really, they have set up LactaLearning to be able to meet anyone’s lactation education needs!

They are also celebrating 10 years and 100 episodes of this podcast! Many new podcasts are in the hopper to continue to deliver interesting and informative topics on lactation. Barbara started the podcast in 2015 with the guidance of Barb Demske, then continued with Jessica Beemsterboer, and now Nancy has been added! Busy bees.

With a growing social media following, LactaLearning continues to offer posts on Facebook and Instagram that help keep their followers entertained and up to date on lactation happenings.

LactaLearning is offering a one day seminar on Low Milk Supply on Saturday, October 25th and in the winter of 2026 a new book group, Working and Breastfeeding Made Simple.

Nancy has recently been working on the LactLearning Youtube channel as well to help round things off.

Again, as they celebrate three years in business, founders Barbara Robertson and Nancy Mohrbacher, along with the LactaLearning team, Jessica, Veronica, Heather, Janelle, and Carrie, unveil a new look and introduce easier-than-ever access to all things lactation. With a new glossary of terms, clear class descriptions, and resources designed to empower your lactation journey, we aim to be your go-to resource as you pursue lactation consulting.  We invite you to visit lactalearning.com to browse our many options for lactation education. Barbara and Nancy are always available to answer your questions and to make your lactation goals attainable.

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The All Things Breastfeeding Podcast is a program for both lactation professionals and new and experienced parents. Barbara D. Robertson, MA, IBCLC, owner of LactaLearning and The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor and Jessica Beemsterboer, MEd, IBCLC, who works with Barbara, host the show. Barbara and Jessica share their thoughts and information on All Things Breastfeeding.

Kimberly Seals Allers’ words, “I’m a femtech founder, writer, speaker and maternal and infant health strategist with a bold vision to transform the experience of motherhood for all and to eradicate racial disparities in birth and breastfeeding.”

Kimberly is someone who sees an issue and works on solutions! She gets things done! Barbara was lucky to be able to catch up with Kimberly on All Things Breastfeeding.

From her website: “Veteran journalist and five-time author turned maternal and infant health advocate and femtech founder. A former senior editor at ESSENCE and writer at FORTUNE magazine, I created Irth, as in birth but we dropped the B for bias, as the first-of-its kind, doctor and hospital review & rating platform just for Black and brown women and birthing people. I leveraged decades of media experience and a passion for mothering into a vision and platform to use technology to amplify community voices to address racism and bias in Black maternal and infant care. Irth is a non-profit project of my 501C3, Narrative Nation, which also produces the Birthright podcast, where I share positive Black birthing stories as a direct counter to the doom and gloom narrative too common in mainstream media coverage of Black maternal health.”

Kimberly’s new project has been connecting families with a maternal loss at birth with a human milk bank so the baby can receive human milk for the beginning of their life. So powerful. Human Milk Justice for Infants “Powered by HMBANA & Kimberly Seals Allers. The Restoration Project (TRP) is an innovative national response mechanism that addresses the nutritional needs of newborns who have lost their mothers due to pregnancy-related deaths. A partnership between the Human Milk Banking Association of North America (HMBANA) and Kimberly Seals Allers, this initiative builds a nationwide network to collect and distribute donor milk to medically and economically vulnerable populations. Human milk is critical for infant health. TRP ensures that infants impacted by childbirth-related maternal loss receive compassionate care and immediate access to human milk, the best first food for an infant’s health and development.”

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In this episode Nancy and Barbara discuss the latest findings on relacation and induced lactation.

According to University of Western Australia’s LactaPedia, an online comprehensive glossary of human lactation terms freely available to professionals and parents (https://lactapedia.com/lactapedia-site/homee), relactation is defined as the re-establishment of lactation after the immediate post-birth period. This restricts relactation only to mothers and other birthing parents who delivered the current baby. This differs from the broader definition used in the 2020 Breastfeeding Answers and other lactation textbooks, which includes anyone who had ever given birth to any baby. Due to the breast-tissue growth during pregnancy, this previous definition assumed those who had ever given birth had an advantage in bringing in milk. Now, establishing milk production by anyone who did not give birth to the current baby is defined as induced lactation.

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The All Things Breastfeeding Podcast is a program for both lactation professionals and new and experienced parents. Barbara D. Robertson, MA, IBCLC, owner of LactaLearning and The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor and Jessica Beemsterboer, MEd, IBCLC, who works with Barbara, host the show. Barbara and Jessica share their thoughts and information on All Things Breastfeeding.

The All Things Breastfeeding Podcast is a program for both lactation professionals and new and experienced parents. Barbara D. Robertson, MA, IBCLC, owner of LactaLearning and The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor and Jessica Beemsterboer, MEd, IBCLC, who works with Barbara, host the show. Barbara and Jessica share their thoughts and information on All Things Breastfeeding.