Feeding in the first year: our experience with breastfeeding, combo feeding & solids

Two Parents & A Podcast

Alex & Harrison Fugman

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Parenting, Relationships

4.1 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This week on Two Parents & A Podcast, we’re talking about one of the biggest journeys of year one: feeding your baby. From what it actually feels like when your milk comes in (spoiler: flu-like) to transitioning to combo feeding, to introducing solids and eventually dropping bottles — we’re breaking down what worked for us, what didn’t, and what we’d 100% do differently next time. We get into all the real stuff: middle-of-the-night pumping (don’t do what I did), my experience with DMER (Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex), how a night nurse helped (for Harrison, not me LOL), and the partner’s role in supporting breastfeeding and pumping. Plus tactical things like grocery hauls, our favorite hacks, and a rapid-fire round of the best (and most overrated) products. Before all that… Halloween costume brainstorming (!!! sorry we had to bleep it lol) and our BIGGEST milestone yet — Tate is officially walking (and yes, she needed her first real shoes, cue the tears). And in Things We DMed Each Other: why queen-size beds might actually save your marriage (did Matthew McConaughey have a point??) and our thoughts on the dreaded “black tie optional” dress code (aka the most confusing vibe check ever). LOVE YOU GUYS — thanks for following along through our first year of feeding, learning, and figuring it all out with us. Timestamps: 00:00:00 Welcome back to Two Parents & A Podcast! 00:02:40 Brainstorming Halloween costume ideas 00:07:10 Tate is walking! + buying your baby’s first shoes 00:09:30 12 months of breastfeeding recap 00:12:07 Why I chose to exclusively breastfeed for the first 6 months 00:13:20 What it actually feels like when your milk comes in 00:14:25 Our experience with a night nurse 00:15:57 Handling middle-of-the-night feeds & pumping 00:18:35 Final thoughts on the first 0–3 months of breastfeeding 00:20:27 What I’ll do differently for future babies 00:24:40 My experience with DMER (Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex) 00:25:49 Transitioning to combo feeding (and how we made it work) 00:27:58 Introducing solids & our approach to first foods 00:33:15 Weaning off pumping & dropping bottles 00:35:00 A full day of eating + family grocery haul 00:37:36 The partner’s role in breastfeeding & pumping 00:42:26 What I wish I knew before starting the pumping journey 00:46:00 Rapid fire Qs: top pumping product, best hack, most overrated, biggest surprise & what we’d do differently 00:51:17 Final reflections on my breastfeeding journey 00:53:10 Things We DMed Each Other: Why queen beds might save your marriage 00:54:39 Things We DMed Each Other: “Black tie optional” dress codes?? 00:56:15 LOVE YOU GUYS! #twoparentsandapod --------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you to our sponsors this week: *Nurture Life: For 55% off your order + FREE shipping, head to https://www.NurtureLife.com/TWOPARENTS and use code TWOPARENTS. *Fast Growing Trees: This Fall, Fast Growing Trees has the best deals for your yard, up to half off on select plants and other deals. Listeners of our show get 15% OFF at https://www.FastGrowingTrees.com/TWOPARENTS when using the code TWOPARENTS at checkout. *BetterHelp: As the largest online therapy provider in the world, BetterHelp provides access to mental health professionals with a wide variety of expertise. Our listeners get 10% off their first month at https://www.betterhelp.com/TWOPARENTS. --------------------------------------------------------------- Listen to the pod on YouTube/Spotify/Apple: https://www.youtube.com/@twoparentsandapod https://open.spotify.com/show/7BxuZnHmNzOX9MdnzyU4bD?si=5e715ebaf9014fac https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/two-parents-a-podcast/id1737442386 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.5	and a podcast. Today is, well, it's a great day because I'm in the fall mood, been looking at pumpkin
0:37.4	patches and Halloween costumes all day.
0:40.4	But we're going to do a breastfeeding, breastfeeding, pumping, eating solids, like consumption.
0:49.2	We're going to have a consumption episode.
0:50.7	A recap, a 12-month recap.
0:52.7	Yes.
0:53.2	Kind of sticking on that theme. Month by month of how it was.
0:57.3	Yeah. Well, this feels like something that you've talked a lot about consistently throughout the journey and
1:04.4	throughout prior episodes. And so I think it'll be really interesting to hear you bring it all together here today. Well, it consumes your every thought, right, as a mom. So it's like all we talk about. Like today, the neighbor mom and I were texting constantly about like what kind of milk we're going to buy, right? Like feeding your kid is such an important thing. But the breastfeeding, it's just, it's a bunch of unknown. So we're going to dive into it. We're going to break it down month by month.
1:28.2	And it's going to be great. But before that, we're obviously going to sit here and shoot the S-H-I-T. I was wondering why we didn't do like the pre-intro. Normally we kind of do the banter before. We just went right into it today. Do you want to know what I'm upset about? I'd love to hear.
1:44.5	And I'm not a big, I'm not big on pop culture.
1:47.3	Okay.
1:48.0	Sharks. before we just went right into it today. Do you want to know what I'm upset about? I'd love to hear.
2:01.9	And I'm not a big, I'm not big on pop culture. Okay. Shocked, floored and beside myself that Keith Urban, okay, I'm blanking on her name. Nicole Kidman. I like know her so, yeah, Nicole Kidman. I cannot believe they broke up. I'm shocked. Me as well. I couldn't even have told you that they were together.
2:01.3	They're like 20 years? Yeah, one of Hollywood's longest standing couples.
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