Spilling the Milk: Breastfeeding Chats
19 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago -A series of casual breastfeeding chat sessions about the triumphs and tribulations of keeping tiny humans fed. Put on your yoga pants (oh wait, you're already wearing them!) and tune in. The most powerful way for mamas to support each other is to share that we're not alone. Click the link for your favorite podcast app to Listen & Subscribe!
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Episodes
Birth Bliss: Preparing for an Empowered Birth with Marie Berwald
March 28, 2024 12:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MBMy guest, Marie Berwald, has over twenty years as a yoga teacher and childbirth educator. Based on her experience, Marie Berwald has developed a prenatal program to help women reconnect to their innate wisdom in birthing. Weaving together breath, bio-hacks, visualization, relaxation and holistic tools, Marie believes every women deserves to feel empowered in her birthing experience. In this episode we talk about: -skills and practices you can develop during pregnancy that will help you find...
Surviving the Holiday Season with your Breastfeeding Bundle of Joy
December 06, 2023 17:00 - 16 minutes - 11.2 MBAre you feeling overwhelmed about managing holiday gatherings with your breastfeeding baby? Fear not, we're here to help! In this solo episode of Spilling the Milk, Emily addresses the challenges of balancing family traditions with the demands of a young, breastfeeding baby during the festive season. She shares tips on key topics such as alcohol consumption while breastfeeding, sticking to your baby's schedule, and handling unexpected events. Remember, it's okay to prioritize your little on...
Morgan - From Doula to Entrepreneur | If You Give a New Mom a Lactation Cookie
October 24, 2023 14:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBEver wonder what a doula does and how lactation cookies can provide essential nourishment for new mothers? Tune in for an enlightening conversation with Morgan Everts, a doula, childbirth educator, and the founder of the Postpartum Pantry. Discover how her second pregnancy inspired her journey into the world of doula work and childbirth education and how she found her purpose in supporting new mothers. --- SPECIAL OFFER: Check out all of the great products Morgan describes at The Postpartu...
Game-Changing Approach to Breast Pump Technology with Eva Nagy-Gannon
August 28, 2023 18:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBImagine transforming the breastfeeding journey of millions of mothers worldwide - Eva Nagy-Gannan is on a mission to do exactly that. With a game-changing approach to breast pump technology, Eva shares her personal experience with breasts pumps that use sucking technology and how this ignited her mission to develop a breast pump that mirrors the natural action of a suckling baby. We discuss her revolutionary invention, the Calla wearable manual pump and its potential to empower mothers, offe...
Cara T - Navigating Parenthood, Breastfeeding, and the COVID Generation: A Collaborative Approach
June 14, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MBHow do you navigate the challenges of parenting and breastfeeding while keeping your sanity intact? Join us as we welcome Cara Tyrell, founder of Core 4 Parenting and conscious parenting coach, as she shares her passion for advocating for the "COVID generation" of kids and her unique approach to collaborative parenting. In our heartfelt conversation, we delve into Cara's emotional breastfeeding journey, starting with the heartbreaking experience of managing her mother's milk after her first...
Jenn - Breastfeeding ergonomics: how to support your pelvic floor while nourishing your baby.
May 10, 2023 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBMy guest today is Jenn Lormand, a Orleans mama of three boys living and thriving with Stage 2 prolapse, an Exercise Physiologist and an author. Known together as the “Tinkler ladies”, Jenn and her business partner, Christina Walsh, have a combined 36 years of experience supporting women through prolapse, diastasis recti, and more. The Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy featured their holistic protocol that helps women relieve pelvic floor issues (think no more pee leaks, back pain, o...
Jenn - TIghten Your Tinkler, Uplevel Your Breastfeeding Posture, and Be Kind to Your Postpartum Body
May 10, 2023 17:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBMy guest today is Jenn Lormand, a Orleans mama of three boys living and thriving with Stage 2 prolapse, an Exercise Physiologist and an author. Known together as the “Tinkler ladies”, Jenn and her business partner, Christina Walsh, have a combined 36 years of experience supporting women through prolapse, diastasis recti, and more. The Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy featured their holistic protocol that helps women relieve pelvic floor issues (think no more pee leaks, back pain, o...
Kortney - Pumping on a Teacher's Schedule
April 27, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBMy guest is Kortney Ross, a mom of two littles who recently left her career as a full-time band director and teacher for freelance instructional design. That's how we met! We are both part of the Instructional Design community at www.idlance.com. Kortney specializes in empowering parents through customized learning solutions and courses. Schedule a free consultation call to discover how she can partner with you to create a course parents will love or to see how she can help your business ...
Carolyn - Rest & Nutrition Tips from a Functional Nutrition & Lifestyle Practitioner
April 07, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBMy guest is Carolyn LaPan, a Masters level psychologist and Certified Functional Nutrition & Lifestyle Practitioner. Carolyn and I connected in our local Holistic Networking Group and have been collaborating on ways to combine forces in support of women’s health. She is passionate about gut health, hormone health, and longevity, as well as eating for the seasons, with whole food, plant-based recipes. Carolyn has contributed her expertise to Breastfeeding Bootcamp and runs her own individual ...
Breastfeeding Bootcamp Launches April 1!!
March 29, 2023 16:00 - 8 minutes - 6.14 MBIn this solo episode Emily shares about the launch of Breastfeeding Bootcamp, an online course and community meant to prepare women and their partners for the realities of breastfeeding life and empower them with strategies to make breastfeeding work for their family. Emily shares how she has combined her deep experience in learning design, breastfeeding, and integrative health to produce a best-in-class offering for pregnant women who demand better than what they can get in a traditional b...
Adrian - Insights From an IBCLC and Mom of 5
March 15, 2023 23:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBMy guest is Adrian Fear, IBCLC, owner of Huron River Lactation and mom of 5. Her breastfeeding journey started out with round the clock finger feeding(!) that eventually led to successful breastfeeding. And coming full circle she now helps other new moms in the metro Detroit area navigate breastfeeding challenges and set them on a path to meet their breastfeeding goals. If you'd like to see our conversation, and all of the goodies Adrian pulls out of her Mary Poppins bag, head to YouTube to ...
Liezl - New Mom in a New Country
March 07, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBMy guest is Liezl, who has a 3 year old girl and 10 month old boy. She is originally from the Philippines, had her babies in California, and now lives in snowy, cold Michigan. If you’ve ever stayed home with a baby, or a baby and a toddler, much of what she shares will sound familiar. Liezl is very honest as she shares what it feels like to be trapped inside with two little ones while husband is away for work and she cannot drive. Birth She also shares about her two very different births...
Stacie B - Exclusive Pumping in a Pandemic
May 11, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBMy guest is Stacie, a wife, mom, and current clinical year Physician Assistant student (who will be certified in August!). She had her daughter, Eleanor, in March 2020 just as the US was going into lockdown. This episode was recorded when her baby was 7 months old. In our conversation we discuss Stacie’s success with Exclusive Pumping, juggling PA school and new parenthood, the isolation of having a newborn during quarantine, storing breastmilk at family and friends’ houses, mastitis, nippl...
Beth H - Getting Baby to Sleep
November 23, 2020 21:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this episode we focus on a topic intricately tied to breastfeeding and new parenthood -- getting your baby to sleep (and getting enough sleep yourself!) Beth Hawkins is a UK-based BabySleepTheNight qualified child sleep consultant and a Mum who can talk from the heart about struggles with her own family's sleep challenges. For Mums and Dads wanting to make a change, she offers practical advice, bespoke sleep plans, and emotional support. You can learn more about Beth's services, includ...
Sarah - It's the Best Thing I've Done
September 25, 2020 18:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBIn this episode we hear from Sarah who says breastfeeding her children is the best thing she's done. We talk about how she flexed her work life to accommodate breastfeeding on demand, her feelings toward pumping (spoiler alert: she's not a fan), how to ignore misguided advice, the revelation that one can treat mastitis without antibiotics (and how the baby can actually save you), her experience nursing in-flight and her overall advice to be patient with yourself. Sarah is a mom of two acti...
Holly J - Tandem Nursing & Supporting High-Risk Families
September 03, 2020 23:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBHolly is a mom of 3, two boys (8 & 10) and a 4 year old girl who can do just about anything her brothers can…while wearing a princess dress. Holly is passionate about her work through Parents as Teachers, where she visits with families to make sure that all children will learn, grow, and develop to realize their full potential. She is also a “Happier in Hollywood” fan, which is how we connected! We discuss oversupply, cabbage leaves, Baby Led Weaning, tandem nursing, supporting at-risk moms...
Lauren - Lip Tie Surprise
August 27, 2020 20:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBMy guest is Lauren, a wife and mom of two little girls, Elliana who is 2 ½ and Charlotte who is 7 months old. She is also a social worker who works with adults with developmental disabilities and is trying to balance it all, just like everyone else. We discuss painful nursing in the beginning, the barriers to meeting with a lactation consultant (emotional, mental, and logistics), finding out two years later that baby has a lip tie, comparing baby 2 to baby 1 and the guilt that comes with th...
Beth T - Comparing Yourself to Others
August 20, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this episode we touch on the influence of other people's attitudes and experiences with breastfeeding, the horror of dumping or spilling pumped milk, and how to nicely tell people to "get out of my house; I need to feed my baby." My guest is Dr. Beth Trammell, PhD, HSPP, an author, speaker, psychologist, creator of Make Words Matter, Associate Professor of Psychology at Indiana University East, as well as a mother of four. You can learn more about her work at MakeWordsMatterForGood.com. ...
Beth - Comparing Yourself to Others
August 20, 2020 17:00 - 23 minutes - 15.8 MBIn this episode we touch on the influence of other people's attitudes and experiences with breastfeeding, the horror of dumping or spilling pumped milk, and how to nicely tell people to "get out of my house; I need to feed my baby." My guest is Dr. Beth Trammell, PhD, HSPP, an author, speaker, psychologist, creator of Make Words Matter, Associate Professor of Psychology at Indiana University East, as well as a mother of four. You can learn more about her work at MakeWordsMatterForGood.com. ...