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The ZDoggMD Show

Feeding Your Baby: The Formula Crisis & Beyond (w/Mirine Richey)

The ZDoggMD Show

ZDoggMD LLC

Spirituality, Medicine, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Just getting infants and toddlers fed seems harder than ever given formula shortages and lack of support for moms. Lactation consultant and educator Mirine Richey, MPH, IBCLC helps us unwind all the knots. Learn more about her work at Florida State. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/formula-crisis/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro, the role of the lactation consultant 05:25 Infant nutrition, diversity among lactation specialists, physical breastfeeding vs. feeding breastmilk 08:17 Social determinants, challenges for low socioeconomic and the highly educated, maternal advantages & benefits of breastfeeding 14:50 Infant advantages & benefits of breastfeeding 19:34 Breastmilk vs. formula cost (both monetary and social) 23:11 Debriefing past trauma & why it's often uncomfortable to talk about breastfeeding, more neonatal benefits 27:53 Composition of human milk, immune properties, HIV considerations, positioning for bottle feeding 31:39 Tongue-tied babies, breast-shaped bottles, maternal mental health & the effect of stress on infants, breastmilk is best 41:21 Formula composition, cow milk vs. goat milk based, clever marketing, soy based formulas 50:29 The simplicity of supplementing with formula & it's effect on milk supply, the formula industrial complex, clever marketing 59:43 Baby friendly hospitals, informed consent, alternatives to breastfeeding, donor milk, synthetic milk 1:05:25 Milk production for multiples, pumping pros & cons, mastitis, temperament & personality in infants & beyond 1:14:58 The formula crisis, causes & possible solutions 1:18:40 Final thoughts, tying it all together, finding a lactation consultant Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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