Hi, and welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast.

Co-hosted by Abby Thuring, the badass breastfeater, and Diane Cassidy, IBCLC.

Hey, welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast.

This is episode 13, lucky number 13.

This is Diane, IBCLC.

And I'm Abby, the badass breastfeater.

Oh, and we are going to talk.

This is installment two of our NIP series, which is nursing in public if you didn't

already figure that out.

But we like to just call it NIP because it's more fun.

But we're going to talk about like getting comfortable in your environment.

And when I first, when Ebby first mentioned, you know, like getting comfortable in your environment and when I first, when Abby first mentioned, you know,

like getting comfortable, I was thinking in my head, I don't think I even said this out loud

to you, Abby, but I was thinking in my head like, oh, like getting comfortable like, you know,

with the baby actually nursing in public, like emotionally comfortable. But it's not even just that.

It's like getting comfortable in all sorts of different places that you might be.

Right. Well, last week we talked right about, we talked about reasons to breastfeed in public and we talked about people's fears.

And so, you know, before you can even get emotionally comfortable, you need to, like, really ask yourself, like, what is it that makes you nervous? What do you

think might happen? How would you handle it? You know, and then, you know, and then what the only

thing that you can do after that to try to get comfortable is to actually go outside and breastfeed.

You know, and there's, and there's some things that you can do to kind of ease into it.

You don't just have to go to like a shopping mall and, you know, or like a dealership, you know,

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