Hi, welcome to the badass breastfeeding podcast.

This is Diane, your lactation consultant.

And this is Abby, the badass breastfeater.

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Right now we have our review of the week.

Yes, this came to us via email.

It's a little long, but it kind of plays into some of the things we're going to talk about today.

So I wanted to read it.

It's from Christine, and she said, Diane and Abby.

I was just listening to the five ways we are set up to fail, and that's an episode from a couple

of weeks ago. And I had to pause and email you. Abby commented that you're lucky if you get

out of the hospital without giving your baby formula. After traumatic induction and C-section,

I was fortunate that my baby and I figured out breastfeeding pretty easily.

It was the only part of my hospital experience that made sense.

All of the nurses and lactation consultants were incredibly helpful until the third day when we were waiting to be discharged.

The seasoned nurse came into our room for seemingly no reason as we sat with baby perfectly dressed and ready to go home.

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