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hey welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast this is diane your lactation consultant

and this is abby the badass breastfeater and we are going to talk to you today about becoming

a lactation consultant or a breastfeeding advocate. Yes, because

there are so many people, especially when they start breastfeeding, Diane and I can both

attest to this, that when you start breastfeeding and you get through those struggles and you become

so empowered, you're like, how can I become more involved and how can I empower other people?

And a lot of people think, well, I'm going to become, I want to become a international board

certified lactation consultant.

I want to be at IBCLC.

So, Diane's an IBCLC and she can tell you how to do it.

But we are going to talk about like other things too.

But you know, like it's so, it's so funny because like you said you have this baby and you

breastfeed and you, you know, just kind of think it's, you get through all these problems.

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