So what do you want to say to women who are fearing a painful latch?

Let's start with that.

Well, yeah, you should fear a painful latch because a painful latch is not a good latch.

Pain is our body's way of telling us that something is wrong.

Pretty clear.

One woman who said, my fear is not being able to lose weight due to the higher caloric demands.

Yeah.

So I'm going to say something that probably a lot of people might disagree with me on, but

the less you eat breastfeeding, the less weight you're going to lose.

Why is that?

Because your body is smart and your body is intending to breastfeed for an extended

period of time.

It's going to retain more, you're saying.

It is going to retain that fat to protect your milk supply for the long term. That's

compelling. I'm Cynthia Overgard, birth educator, advocate for informed consent, and postpartum

support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified

lactation consultant. And this is the

Down to Birth Show. Childbirth is something we're made to do. But how do we have our safest and

most satisfying experience in today's medical culture? Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. I'm going to ask a lot of you today. I hope you're on fire ready to provide information.

Okay. We put out a question on Instagram asking women their biggest breastfeeding fears. And like sometimes a dozen women said one single thing. So they're all worried about the same huge pile of things. So for this episode, Trisha, I'm hoping you can respond to many of them. But it's going to have to be a little bit of a quicky style or else we're only

going to get to tour. I'm sure you have so much information for each thing that we're going

to have to keep it kind of quick. You think you can be... Well, you know, I'm pretty good at that.

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