Body-Led Breastfeeding

Have you ever worked with a baby who just grunted a lot? While feeding, while sleeping, while playing, and especially while you held them or gently moved their body around for assessment? What can those vocal sounds tell us about their suck and about how they hold their body?

Join us in 2026 and 2027 to dive deep into infant bodies and infant suck together!

2026:

Chicago, IL on October 15-16

Only 12 spots left in this workshop: ⁠⁠Sign up here!⁠⁠

2027: locations TBA

Portland, OR

United Kingdom

Follow us at ⁠⁠BodyLedBreastfeeding.com⁠⁠ to sign up for updates and learn more about our whole-body infant feeding approach.

Instagram: ⁠⁠@BodyLedBreastfeeding

The first step to knowing how to help your clients is defining in exquisite detail what a baby is doing in their suck.

Listen to the three types of suck defined by Body-Led Breastfeeding and of course Ellen and Adina will be talking about what a baby's body looks like in each specific type of suck behavior because infant feeding is whole-body work!

Join us in 2026 and 2027 to dive deep into infant bodies and infant suck together!

2026:

Chicago, IL on October 15-16

Want to join the workshop? ⁠Sign up here!⁠

2027: locations TBA

Portland, OR

United Kingdom

Follow us at ⁠BodyLedBreastfeeding.com⁠ to sign up for updates and learn more about our whole-body infant feeding approach.

Instagram: ⁠@BodyLedBreastfeeding

Take a peek into the 2-day Body-Led Breastfeeding workshop with Ellen and Adina. Find out what topics we cover, how we go deep, what structures we find important, and how resilient the breastfeeding relationship can be!

Join us in 2026 and 2027 to dive deep into infant bodies and infant suck together!

2026:

Chicago, IL on October 15-16

Want to join the workshop? Sign up here!

2027: locations TBA

Portland, OR

United Kingdom

Follow us at BodyLedBreastfeeding.com to sign up for updates and learn more about our whole-body infant feeding approach.

Instagram: @BodyLedBreastfeeding

How does neck and spinal positioning affect a baby's suck? Join Ellen and Adina as we discuss the idea of "hyperextension" and what it does to functional breastfeeding.

We're going to touch on tongue positioning, types of infant suck, vacuum extraction, and even mature straw sucking as we go along.

Get ready to question some long-held pillars of lactation theory with us as we hash out some clinical skepticism and hope for better research and physiologically appropriate consensus as the field of lactation grows!

BodyLedBreastfeeding.com

Get a little geeky with Adina and Ellen as we break down two 2019 groundbreaking tongue dissection articles by Mills et al. We're going to talk all about the floor of the mouth anatomy, posterior tongue ties, fascia vs mucosa, and how does this become clinically relevant to lactation practices even before we have scientific consensus?

Stay curious and keep changing your mind!

Body-Led Breastfeeding Foundations Workshop starts February 11th! Sign up here

Articles Cited:

Defining the anatomy of the neonatal lingual frenulum

Mills, N., Keough, N., Geddes, D.T., Pransky, S.M. and Mirjalili, S.A. (2019), Defining the anatomy of the neonatal lingual frenulum. Clin. Anat., 32: 824-835.

What is a tongue tie? Defining the anatomy of the in-situ lingual frenulum

Mills, N., Pransky, S.M., Geddes, D.T. and Mirjalili, S.A. (2019), What is a tongue tie? Defining the anatomy of the in-situ lingual frenulum. Clin. Anat., 32: 749-761.

bodyledbreastfeeding.com⁠⁠ is launched!

Just in time for our next Foundations workshop season: this February 11th, 18th, and 25th of 2026.

The rules of BLB are simple, effective, and directly applicable to practice and the Foundations workshop is where it all begins.

Catch our socials to see a demo video of the suck supports during breastfeeding and bottle feeding we discuss in depth in this conversation:

⁠⁠Adina's Instagram⁠⁠

⁠⁠Ellen's Instagram⁠⁠

Here we go: a re-release of the foundational introduction series of the BLB podcast – let’s dive back into that infant body, moving from toes to nose to get deep into understanding what Body-Led Breastfeeding is all about!

We need to thank you, our dear podcast listeners, who have been bearing with us all year long as we develop the language around what we do! 

bodyledbreastfeeding.com⁠⁠ is launched!

Just in time for our next Foundations workshop season: this February 11th, 18th, and 25th of 2026.

The rules of BLB are simple, effective, and directly applicable to practice and the Foundations workshop is where it all begins.

Catch our socials to see a demo video of the facial softening and awareness exercises we discuss in depth in this conversation:

⁠⁠Adina's Instagram⁠⁠

⁠⁠Ellen's Instagram⁠⁠

Here we go: a re-release of the foundational introduction series of the BLB podcast – let’s dive back into that infant body, moving from toes to nose to get deep into understanding what Body-Led Breastfeeding is all about!

We need to thank you, our dear podcast listeners, who have been bearing with us all year long as we develop the language around what we do! 

bodyledbreastfeeding.com⁠⁠ is launched!

Just in time for our next Foundations workshop season: this February 11th, 18th, and 25th of 2026.

The rules of BLB are simple, effective, and directly applicable to practice and the Foundations workshop is where it all begins.

Catch our socials to see a demo video of the neck mobility and softening exercises we discuss in depth in this conversation:

⁠⁠Adina's Instagram⁠⁠

⁠⁠Ellen's Instagram⁠⁠

Here we go: a re-release of the foundational introduction series of the BLB podcast – let’s dive back into that infant body, moving from toes to nose to get deep into understanding what Body-Led Breastfeeding is all about!

We need to thank you, our dear podcast listeners, who have been bearing with us all year long as we develop the language around what we do! 

bodyledbreastfeeding.com⁠ is launched!

Just in time for our next Foundations workshop season: this February 11th, 18th, and 25th of 2026.

The rules of BLB are simple, effective, and directly applicable to practice and the Foundations workshop is where it all begins.

Catch our socials to see a demo video of the arm mobility and arm hug exercises we discuss in depth in this conversation:

⁠Adina's Instagram⁠

⁠Ellen's Instagram⁠

Here we go: a re-release of the foundational introduction series of the BLB podcast – let’s dive back into that infant body, moving from toes to nose to get deep into understanding what Body-Led Breastfeeding is all about!

We need to thank you, our dear podcast listeners, who have been bearing with us all year long as we develop the language around what we do! 

bodyledbreastfeeding.com⁠ is launched!

Just in time for our next Foundations workshop season: this February 11th, 18th, and 25th of 2026.

The rules of BLB are simple, effective, and directly applicable to practice and the Foundations workshop is where it all begins.

Catch our socials to see a demo video of the ribcage softening and supported tummy time bodywork exercises we discuss in depth in this conversation:

⁠Adina's Instagram⁠

⁠Ellen's Instagram⁠

Here we go: a re-release of the foundational introduction series of the BLB podcast – let’s dive back into that infant body, moving from toes to nose to get deep into understanding what Body-Led Breastfeeding is all about!

We need to thank you, our dear podcast listeners, who have been bearing with us all year long as we develop the language around what we do!