027 Skin to Skin Benefits to Breastfeeding and Beyond

Badass Breastfeeding Podcast

Dianne Cassidy & Abby Theuring

Education, Baby, Lactation Consultant, Nursing, Parenting, Attachment Parenting, Motherhood, Breastmilk, Kids & Family, Breastfeeding, Formula, Babies, Infant Feeding, Infant

4.8 • 815 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Submit your question and we’ll answer it in a future episode! “Honey, do you want me to turn down the heat? “No, it’s fine in here. Why do you ask?” “Because you and the little guy aren’t wearing shirts? What’s going on?!” “We are just going skin to skin! It’s good for the baby and me. It gives us a great bond, it helps the baby to transition to life outside the womb and can help make breastfeeding easier, even increasing milk supply!” Liste...

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast. Co-hosted by Abby Fearing, the badass breastfeeding podcast.
0:22.4	Co-hosted by Abby Fearing, the badass breastfeater, and Diane Cassidy, IBCLC.
0:28.4	Hey, welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast.
0:31.2	This is Diane Cassidy, the lactation consultants.
0:34.4	This is Abby, the badass breastfeater.
0:36.7	And we are here to talk about skin to skin.
0:41.8	That's what we're going to talk about today.
0:42.8	That is our topic today, is skin to skin contact with your baby, skin to skin to skin.
0:49.8	Or whoever.
0:50.7	Or whoever.
0:52.3	But that's a good point, point though like the or whoever piece because
0:55.7	yeah if we you know like the whole skin to skin thing when my babies were born like that wasn't a thing
1:02.2	nobody said oh yeah put your baby skin to skin blah blah this is really something that's just kind
1:07.0	of coming around over the last several years and but, but if you think about it, like,
1:12.6	you feel so connected to the person you love when you are just skin to skin with them.
1:18.2	Well, yeah, exactly. I mean, it's really the same thing, right? I mean, it's the same thing as
1:22.3	like skin to skin contact with a partner. I mean, it's the same, you know, rush of oxytocin.
1:28.2	It's the intimacy. And like the whole, yes. And the, I mean, all of the same things are happening in
1:32.5	your brain. You know, they're happening, they're happening with your baby too. And all, when that
1:37.4	happens with your baby, I mean, that stimulates so much growth, like in their brain and in their bodies. And that's, I think that's what people kind of figured out that that's where they're supposed to be.
1:49.3	Yeah.
1:49.9	Right.
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