040 - Oversupply, When You Make Too Much Breastmilk

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

🗓️ 28 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Submit your question and we’ll answer it in a future episode! “Honey! I think someone spilled something in the bed. There is a huge wet spot.” “No, it’s just my boobs. They are leaking milk like a fountain. The baby is even having trouble feeding!” This week Dianne and Abby are soaking up all your extra milk. We’ll answer all the questions, “Why does oversupply happen? How can I deal with it? How can I help my baby feed?” You’re not stuck with a soaking wet baby fore...

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0:00.0	Hi, and welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast.
0:18.4	Co-hosted by Abby Thuring, the badass breastfeater, and Diane Cassidy, IBCLC.
0:24.4	Hey, welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast. I'm Diane. Your lactation consultant.
0:29.8	And I'm Abby, the badass breastfeater. I forgot who I was. We are going to talk. Now,
0:35.5	this topic for this week, we have gotten so, so, so many questions and requests about.
0:40.9	I don't know how we didn't end up doing it sooner, really.
0:43.3	I know.
0:43.8	I thought that too.
0:44.7	I was like, wait, how have we not done this?
0:46.3	Yeah.
0:47.1	So we are going to talk about oversupply, which doesn't that sound like a fantastic thing?
0:53.3	Have a ton of milk. which doesn't that sound like a fantastic thing have a time yeah i think that's probably why because
0:55.6	we it's like we used we talked about low milk supply yeah that's the big panic yeah but then you
1:01.0	figure like oh someone's got too much milk oh well you know they're lucky right that's what everybody
1:06.2	oh they're lucky if they have you know oversupply. Oversupply is not a good problem to have.
1:11.7	No, and it's really hard for people to breastfeed.
1:14.6	It's hard to breastfeed.
1:15.6	It's hard for babies.
1:17.2	All kinds of problems come up.
1:19.2	And it's really uncomfortable.
1:21.1	And it's hard to get under control once it's out of control.
1:25.6	So this is definitely something that we need to talk about because I think a lot of,
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