In this episode I interview Penny Blunden. Penny shares her breastfeeding journeys with her 2 little boys Rex and Jack. Penny breastfed both her boys for about a year, however she explains the hardships she had to go through in the early months, which included frequent feeding day and night, a bout of very painful attachment and exhaustion. Penny had severe hyperemesis with both her pregnancies and she explains how this left her feeling very depleted. Penny is a paediatric Registered Nurse and runs the Instagram @sick.happens and www.sickhappens.com.au where she provides evidenced based information to empower parents.

In this episode I interview Helen. Helen is a Registered Midwife and is also the mum of one year old Emilia. Helen had a high risk pregnancy, being diagnosed with pre eclampsia and delivered her baby by caesarean section at 35 weeks, Emilia was born weighing in at just 1.6kg. I asked Helen to be a guest on the podcast as I knew she would be able to give the listeners some insight into learning to breastfeed and express with a baby in the NICU. Helen graciously shares her journey which includes navigating the health system, expressing, bottle refusal, managing a frequent breast feeder and so much more. You can find Helen on Instagram @reallifemidwife and www.reallifemidwife.com where she generously shares her knowledge, tips, tricks and pearls of wisdom for pregnancy and motherhood.

In this episode, rather than interviewing a guest, I am telling you my story of breastfeeding my three children. I will share my struggles with a delay in milk supply, which resulted in baby weight loss above the normal cut off and how I worked through that. I will share my journey with my first baby having silent reflux who was medicated and how some family and friends saw an unhappy baby and immediately thought he was a hungry baby. I will also discuss the different ways my babies have weaned and how going back to work can affect the weaning process. I am currently still breastfeeding my third child.

In this episode I interview Lucy. Lucy is a mother of 3 boys, having successfully breastfed them all. She lets us in on her journey of delayed milk production early on, to the truths of demand feeding and how that really looks, to breastfeeding in public as an expat in different countries. We discuss breastfeeding goals and how they can change between children. Lucy is currently still breastfeeding her youngest son who is 12 months.

In this episode I interview a mother of 2 boys Zahra. Zahra lets us in on her breastfeeding journey with her first son, which included a tongue tie revision, mastitis which resulted in a breast abscess and initial problems with weight gain and attachment. She went on to successfully breastfeed her first son for over a year. Her second breastfeeding experience was very different from her first. It felt more natural, easy and instinctive from day one and she is currently still breastfeeding her nearly two year old.

In this introduction, your host Susie Prout will tell you a little bit about herself and her expertise and how this podcast is going to unfold. We need to talk about breastfeeding more, everyday breastfeeding issues, candidly and honestly. Tune in every Thursday for another episode.