How formula-shaming has led to overwhelming guilt for new moms

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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On this episode I welcome Mallory Whitmore—formula feeding mom of two, certified infant feeding technician, and founder of @theformulamom. We discuss the following: Why we develop formula-feeding guilt The lack of formula-feeding education Overcoming formula-feeding guilt Visit Mallory and learn more at www.theformulamom.com. This episode is brought to you by: THE NEW MOM'S SURVIVAL GUIDE: The first digital e-course/community created and founded by a Pediatrician mom to guide you and your baby through their first year. To find out more and to join, visit: http://pedsdoctalk.com/survival-guide. Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to Episode 106 how formula shaming has led to overwhelming guilt for new moms.
0:15.0	Welcome to this week's episode. I am so excited to welcome, Mallory Whitmore.
0:21.2	We're going to be talking about formula shaming and how we feel that that has led to
0:26.8	overwhelming guilt for new moms. Mallory is a formula feeding mom of two certified infant
0:32.5	feeding technician and founder of the Formula mom on Instagram and a website. A wealth of
0:37.6	information for formula feeding which I think is not easy to come by. So thank you so much for
0:44.3	joining me today Mallory. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here. Tell me more
0:49.2	about yourself and what brought you to do what you are doing today with the Formula mom.
0:53.6	Yeah, absolutely. So I have two kids, a little girl who's five and a half and a boy who's two
0:58.7	and a half. And when I had my daughter in 2016, I like the majority of families in the US here
1:06.1	expected the breastfeed. I intended the breastfeed. I began a breastfeeding class. Looking back,
1:10.8	I'm not sure I even really wanted to breastfeed. So much as I felt like that was the obvious
1:16.6	choice because that's what quote unquote good parents did. Yeah. And the experience that I had
1:22.6	from the start was very difficult. She was early. I had gestational diabetes and my milk was delayed
1:30.0	and she lost 12% body weight by day three. And it just was not working for us. So I switched from
1:36.8	trying to nurse to exclusively pumping, which was even worse for my mental health. And it became
1:43.2	obvious really quickly that this was just not going to work for our family. It's not going to work
1:50.0	to try to provide breast milk for this little girl, both for her health and her weight gain,
1:54.1	but also for my mental health, which really devolved quickly into pretty severe postpartum depression.
2:00.4	And so, you know, once I made the decision, okay, we're going to have to switch to Formula. I was
2:04.3	shocked and appalled that I couldn't find any high quality supportive judgment-free research
2:11.4	fact resources about Formula. I mean, every resource that I found basically was like,
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