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 Diane, your lactation consultant, IBCLC.

And I'm Abby, the badass breastfeater.

And we are going to talk today on the badass breastfeeding podcast about alcohol consumption.

And no alcohol just fell off your chair.

I know.

They're going to talk about alcohol.

Oh, my God, not alcohol.

So it's so funny because when I do classes, people are like, because I want people to ask about it, you know.

And I always say does anybody have concerns about lifestyle changes or anything like that that that might come up when you're breastfeeding?

And of course, there's always

diet and, oh, I can't eat everything under the sun and, you know, caffeine and all this other

crap that we'll have to talk about it in another podcast. Oh, yeah, you can. You can. You can do whatever

you want to do. But, yeah, to within reason about, you know, doing whatever you want to do. But

the alcohol piece, people are like,

well, I know you can't drink. And I'm like, yeah, you can. And I'll be like, what? No, what?

You know, and it's like, you don't have to give up everything. I know, but I think that that's,

that is the big thing that comes with breastfeeding, right?

It's like, this is how breastfeeding has become so marginalized and so taboo, is that over, you know,

100 years, it was made out to be, you know, so hard, you know, and there's a lot of ways that on purpose,

like there were, is like actually an agenda, you know, and there's a lot of ways that on purpose, like there were, is like actually an agenda, you know, to make breastfeeding seem hard and not good and not, you know, not what,

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