Hi, welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast. This is Diane, your lactation consultant.

And I'm Abby, the badass breastfeater, and today's episode is brought to you by Fairhaven Health.

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And we'll hear more about that later on.

But right now, Diane has our review of the week.

I do have our review of the week.

And this came from an email.

And it is from Crystal.

And she says, hi, Diane and Abby.

My baby is nine months old.

And I've decided to start incorporating formula into our rhythm of breastfeeding and pumping. My baby is nine months old, and I've decided to start incorporating

formula into our rhythm of breastfeeding and pumping for daycare since four months old,

and purees since seven months old. I could tell that this transition was negatively impacting

me emotionally, so I found your podcast last week in a search for resources about weaning.

My husband and I moved a few weeks before finding out we

are pregnant, so we have no family and no regular accessible close friends nearby. Your podcast

is amazingly reassuring. It's reassuring not only for this transition, but also for many choices

I've made about letting my baby eat and sleep on demand, accepting and meeting as need for comfort,

sucking and snuggling, and breastfeeding

in public or in my parked car. Thank you for your candor for telling me and others that it's

normal for this season of life to be unpredictable and unregimented, for affirming the decisions

that I make while being attuned to my baby and myself are good. Feeling more confident and

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