Formula Can Be Your Friend with The Formula Mom

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Are you a mama that’s searching for the right formula? Maybe you’re breastfeeding and curious about supplementing? Or maybe you just wanna be more educated on the topic of formula and help denounce the narrative that formula is poison!

Whatever the case may be, I’m so excited to have you join me for this week’s episode of The Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast. Today we’ve got Mallory, Certified Infant Feeding Technician, formula expert, and the face behind the SUPER helpful Instagram account and website The Formula Mom.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, episode number 62.
0:04.0	Can you hear my baby screaming in the background?
0:07.0	Hey guys, happy Monday. I have a cool episode this week.
0:11.0	This week is actually all about formula can you believe it I hope you can
0:17.1	because formula is great I'm very pro formula on my page you guys know that I breastfeed my young
0:24.2	young I'm a breastfeeding mom right now I breastfeed my youngest
0:27.9	But we are very inclusive on mom at mommy labor nurse when it comes to formula feeding.
0:34.0	Personally I have given both of my children now
0:38.4	formula.
0:39.1	My first, if you've been following me for a little while,
0:43.2	you probably know my struggles that I dealt with with my first one.
0:48.2	He just had weight gain issues in the beginning,
0:50.9	and we supplemented with Formula throughout his whole first year of life and I
0:56.2	had a lot of feelings about that. I had a lot of guilt. Formula and I were not friends back then.
1:02.0	I saw it kind of as the enemy and that I always wanted to wean him off of that
1:08.0	formula so I did a billion things to try it up my milk supply I was really really stressed out as a result of it and finally came to terms with our feeding journey kind of near the end of his first year.
1:22.0	But yeah, definitely struggled with it. the end of his first year.
1:23.0	But yeah, definitely struggled with it and wished I had like talked to someone like
1:29.4	Mallory who were having on the podcast today to just understand that it is not an enemy.
1:38.7	It is just another option.
1:40.8	So yeah, I have given both of my children formula now. I started Ryland and I haven't actually
1:46.2	even shared this that I have given Ryland formula on my page but I just started giving him a little bit of formula like a few days ago like
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