#363 | Breastfeeding Q&A: Chemical Pregnancy, Night Weaning, Oversupply, Mild Tongue Ties

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Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig

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4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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We are back with another breastfeeding-only Q&A episode. In today's conversation, we respond to several listener questions related to nursing, sleep, and fertility after breastfeeding. One mother who is co-sleeping with her 15-month-old, who wakes three to five times per night to nurse, asks how she can help her toddler sleep longer stretches without abruptly stopping breastfeeding. Another listener with a 4.5-month-old who has never taken a bottle is planning to attend a bachelorette par...

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0:00.0	Hi ladies, love your show. My question is I just finished weaning my two-year-old and I have my first
0:09.6	chemical pregnancy the month after or within four weeks. First of all, where is this idea of a chemical
0:15.8	pregnancy coming from? This wasn't around. I didn't ever learn about a chemical pregnancy in
0:20.1	midwifery school. This wasn't a thing. I'm not sure if he's just a light sleeper and he needs help getting back to sleep or what the problem is. But I have a hard time getting him back to sleep without nursing him to sleep. This is pretty much exactly where I was with my third child around 14, 15 months. She's currently four and a half months old and I've exclusively
0:39.0	breastfeed. She's never had a bottle. She's never had a pacifier. It's all me. However,
0:44.8	in about five months, I go on a bachelor's party for one of my good friends and I really don't
0:51.4	want to miss it, but I'm kind of nervous about what that looks like for her.
0:54.9	But this woman sounds like she really wants to go. It's probably a really good friend. And,
0:59.4	you know, women start to miss their old life. I'm Cynthia Overgard, birth educator, advocate for
1:06.6	informed consent, and postpartum support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse
1:12.7	midwife and international board certified lactation consultant. And this is the Down to Birth Show.
1:20.0	Childbirth is something we're made to do. But how do we have our safest and most satisfying
1:24.8	experience in today's medical culture? Let's dispel the myths and get down to
1:29.3	birth.
1:35.4	Hello and welcome to the April breastfeeding Q&A. All right. We got some good questions in Tricia.
1:42.3	I'm excited to play them for you. We have about 2,000 Quic. So we'll see, we can have a whole episode on quickies today.
1:49.5	Maybe that's what we should do on Patreon. Like maybe rather than regular Q&As that are just private.
1:55.3	And for our Patreon followers, maybe we should do Patreon quickies. Because it would help us to, like, it would help us to
2:02.2	answer more quickies. And for those who are motivated to hear the responses or they're
2:07.7	really excited about quickies because they're really fun, it'd be like a whole event of quickies.
2:13.2	That might be a good way for us to answer most quickies because we do get so many.
2:17.5	Anyway, just a thought.
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