EBB 234 - Tackling Fatphobia in Lactation with Kristin Cavuto
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast, we’re going to talk with the founder of Every Baby Eats, licensed clinical social worker, and IBCLC, Kristin Cavuto
Kristin Cavuto, pronouns she/they, is a licensed clinical social worker in IBCLC and private practice in central New Jersey. Her practice specialties are low supply, parental and infant mental health, and the intersection of ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender in the care of the new family.
Kristin is the mother of two children who nursed full-time despite maternal insufficient glandular tissue (IGT) and who are now 16 and 13. Kristin is also an anti-racist activist and an LGBT+ activist, a member of Transformative Works fandoms, and makes fighting for a better world part of their daily life.
We talk to Kristin about supporting families struggling with feeding infants in a realistic, family-centered, and non-disparaging way. We also talk about fatphobia as a form of oppression and marginalization in medicine and birth and what we can all do to challenge bias and model acceptance
Content warning: We mention the intersection of fatphobia and racism.
Resources:
- EBB 99 – Plus Size Pregnancy and Birth with Jen McLellan
- Harvard Implicit Bias Test
- Fat Phobia Scale Revisited by Robinson, Bacon, et al.
- HAES (Health at Every Size)
- The Body is Not An Apology
- National Association for the Advancement of Fat People
- To follow Kristin on Facebook
- Kristin's current project: https://www.everybabyeats.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with licensed clinical social worker and IBCLC Kristen |
| 0:06.8 | Kavuto about the importance of advocating against fat phobia in lactation. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Evidence-Based Birth Podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Rebecca Decker, and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence |
| 0:19.2 | Baseball. |
| 0:20.2 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:28.0 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:31.0 | See EvieBirth.com |
| 0:33.0 | slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:37.0 | Hey everyone, my name is Rebecca Decker, |
| 0:40.0 | pronouns she-her and I will be your host for today's episode. Today I'm so excited to welcome |
| 0:45.0 | licensed clinical social worker and IBCLC Kristen Kavuto. Before we |
| 0:50.3 | interview Kristen I want to let you know that we will talk about the |
| 0:52.8 | intersection of fat phobia and racism. If there are any other |
| 0:56.4 | detailed content or trigger warnings we'll post them in the description or |
| 1:00.0 | show notes that go along with this episode and now I'd like to introduce our honored guests. |
| 1:05.0 | Kristen Kavuto, pronouns she they, |
| 1:07.5 | is a licensed clinical social worker in IBCLC |
| 1:10.6 | in private practice in Central New Jersey. |
| 1:13.0 | Her practice specialties are low supply, parental and infant mental health, |
| 1:18.0 | and the intersection of ethnicity, sexual orientation |
| 1:23.7 | and gender in the family. Kristen has spoken on various lactation, mental health, and equity topics |
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