Breastfeeding Outside the Box
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWe are proud to present a series of podcasts for parents Breastfeeding Outside the Box, where we aim to support the nourishing and nurturing of babies in exceptional families - families who historically have not received the help and support they need and deserve. Our exceptional families include adoptive, intended, and foster families; gender and sexual minorities; families with special needs babies; parents who have had breast surgery; mothers with IGT or low milk production for other reasons; exclusively pumping mothers; and more.
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004: Dr. Frank Nice on Domperidone
February 10, 2016 04:34 - 51 minutes - 97.4 MBDomperidone is a pharmaceutical medication that can help increase milk production. In this interview, Frank Nice gives us the scoop on "dom". He tells us who might benefit from domperidone and who shouldn't take it. He tells us about common - and some not-so-common side effects. We learn what dosage is ecommended, and how to safely and effectively discontinue using domperidone when the time comes. And of course we discuss the big controversy around domperidone - why it is not currently ...
003: Meet Hope Lien, adoptive breastfeeding mother and CLC
January 26, 2016 04:52 - 29 minutes - 58.3 MBIt was great to hear from our show's co-host, Hope, about her inspiring journey to nursing her daughter by adoption. Hope originally learned that breastfeeding in adoption was possible during her doula training. Armed with the knowledge that breastfeeding would be possible for her even though she was unable to conceive, Hope found resources on adoptive breastfeeding to be pretty scarce at first. Fortunately, more information and support continued to emerge. Here are some of the top r...
002: Meet Alyssa Schnell IBCLC and author of Breastfeeding Without Birthing
January 26, 2016 03:57 - 18 minutes - 36.4 MBAlyssa shared with Hope the breastfeeding story that inspired Breastfeeding Without Birthing. It has been 10 years since Alyssa became an adoptive parent who nursed her baby, and she has been working hard ever since to grow information and support around breastfeeding without pregnancy and birth. Alyssa's passion for breastfeeding grew out of her experience nursing her first two (biological) children. When she and her husband planned to adopt, she knew that breastfeeding would be a v...
001: Welcome to Breastfeeding Outside the Box
January 26, 2016 03:47 - 14 minutes - 28.6 MBAlyssa and Hope are hard at work preparing to serve you with some inspiring and hugely informative podcasts to guide you along your journey to feed and care for your precious little one. We will be talking with experts in the field - both lactation professionals and parents who've nursed their babies outside typical definitions of breastfeeding. We will cover topics such as helping a non-latching baby, inducing lactation, exclusively pumping, bottle-feeding and bottle-nursing, nipple shiel...