13. Optimizing Your Breastfeeding Journey | Therese Dansby, IBCLC
The Freely Rooted Podcast
Kori Meloy and Fallon Lee
5 • 985 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
We sat down with RN & IBCLC Therese Dansby to merge perhaps one of the most important combinations for motherhood: metabolic health + breastfeeding. In a culture where there seems to be two sides yelling "breast is best!" or "fed is best!," we're here to say that perhaps "nourished & supported breastfeeding is best." The hard truth is that breastmilk nutrition does not stay fixed. The nutrition of your breastmilk is absolutely determined by your own nourishment as a mom. So that does that mean we're saying to outsource to formula to ensure that baby is getting what baby needs? Absolutely not! We're saying that moms. need. NOURISHMENT. And moms need support to make that happen- whether that's through help, lifestyle shifts, financial readjustments, or simply the environment in which the mom feels like the power is back into her hands.
Join us as we sit down & discuss the following:
- Therese's metabolic health journey
- Mercer's theory of maternal attainment
- Why it's important to put power back into the mom's hands
- How breastmilk composition changes over time
- Is "fed" really best?
- What is "costs" a mom metabolically to breastfeed
- Why it's important to support your metabolism prior to pregnancy + postpartum
- A whole-body approach to baby's "food intolerances"
- Postpartum mood disorders: a "chemical imbalance" or a lack of nourishment/support?
- Society's obsession with infant sleep
- Postpartum diet culture
- Calorie needs for breastfeeding moms
- Postpartum hormonal changes
- Return of cycle while breastfeeding
- Forms of natural birth control while breastfeeding
- Examining the advice of supplementing babies with vitamin D & iron
- Addressing oral ties systemically
Therese and her colleague Cortney have released a comprehensive virtual breastfeeding and postpartum course called Nourished Beginnings, and podcast listeners can get 10% off their purchase with code FREELYROOTED10
*Not medical advice. This podcast & episode are for inspirational + educational purposes only*
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"There is no vitamin D or iron in breastmilk" by @realfoodgangstas
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| 0:00.0 | Breast milk is a biological norm and the baseline and we as a culture don't talk about it like that. |
| 0:09.0 | We say that there are quote unquote benefits of breast milk instead of talking about deficits of formula. |
| 0:17.4 | All right, Terese, welcome to the show. We are so |
| 0:25.0 | pumped to do a whole episode on breastfeeding and metabolic health because this has been an area that so many moms have seen a massive |
| 0:28.0 | transformation in upon addressing their metabolic health and nourishment and stress management. |
| 0:34.2 | And I think that's the cool thing about having something like my Facebook |
| 0:37.4 | community because I get to hear stories about how a mom was |
| 0:41.7 | maybe unable to breastfeed her first because of supply issues and then upon really addressing her nourishment and stress. |
| 0:47.8 | Through supporting her metabolism her supply is rich and abundant with a consecutive child. |
| 0:53.5 | And there are just some really crazy stories |
| 0:55.8 | that I've gotten to hear as moms and I know, |
| 0:58.3 | or from women, I know you guys have too. |
| 1:00.3 | And I have a few of them saved in my testimonial highlights if you're listening and just want some inspiration and want to go read them for yourself. |
| 1:07.0 | But I think some of the craziest stories I came across were the ones where a mom was maybe supplementing with donated breast milk or |
| 1:13.8 | homemade formula and their babies were you know two three four months old and |
| 1:19.2 | these moms literally got their babies off of bottles because their supply came back to meet their |
| 1:24.1 | babies needs again and I know Theresa you have worked with plenty of moms that have been |
| 1:27.8 | able to do that I would love to hear more about that later in the episode but these |
| 1:31.1 | stories are just so important to hear and I'm so excited to talk about this and for you guys to listen because I feel like often moms are not given the right advice or support when it comes to breastfeeding and they land themselves feeling really hopeless and like there's |
| 1:43.6 | nothing they can do when problems arise or there is seemingly a quicker fix for it |
| 1:48.7 | so that's just why we're so excited to havese you on today and merge two very important topics. |
| 1:55.9 | And to kick us off, can you maybe start by just introducing yourself to our audience diving into |
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