The Fourth Trimester - Skye Ross / nipple trauma, oversupply, postpartum body, cluster feeding, dummy, witching hour

Motherness

English - April 08, 2020 22:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Previous Episode: The Fourth Trimester - Victoria White / two under two, formula feeding, c-section infection, mum guilt, unexpected pregnancy

Next Episode: Sarah Murray / loss of a parent, grief, sleep training, breastfeeding, SCBU, premature baby, mum guilt

In this episode, I'm the one being interviewed! I asked Lucy Slight (from episode one) to host a conversation with me about my Fourth Trimester experience with my daughter, Albie.

We begin by talking about my long labour experience which lasted three days and how I still had a positive hypnobirth despite choosing to have pain relief. We detail my physical recovery, and in that, how I reconciled my feelings about my postpartum body during and beyond the Fourth Trimester.

We also talk about my struggles with breastfeeding and the challenges my daughter and I overcame to still be breastfeeding at 13 months, including latch issues, oversupply, and two breast strikes. In this, I share some great tips I received from the lactation consultant we saw when Albie was two weeks old. We also talk at length about the pressure of motherhood as a whole, my approach to sleep including my love of dummies and the pressure I felt to not create bad habits, plus so much more.

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