Maintaining Supply

How can you maintain your milk supply?

Or do you really need to worry about this?  Today we talk about how to maintain supply, and situations where you may need to do this.

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Things we talked about:

Why isn’t this info in health class? [2:49]

Should you worry about maintaining supply? [7:28]

One of the big parts of maintaining supply [11:08]

Keeping the baby close for night feeds [13:45]

Supply and demand [14:50]

Maintain/Stimulate [17:30]

Birth control [18:13]

Flange size [21:13]

Hands on pumping [28:09]

Build a relationship with your pump [32:33]

Skipped feeds over time [34:36]

Solids, medical procedures, illness, nursing strikes [35:38]

Episode is sponsored by Imani

Links to information we discussed or episodes you should check out!

https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/overfeeding/

https://badassbreastfeedingpodcast.com/episode/birth-control-and-milk-supply/

http://www.nancymohrbacher.com/articles/2012/6/27/to-pump-more-milk-use-hands-on-pumping.html

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