Hey guys, welcome back to the preview lines podcast.

This is Sarah with you and you guys already know who we're talking to today,

but I'm going to give her a short introduction.

This is Mallor. You know her on Instagram as the Formula Mom. She's now with one of her favorite brands Bobby but most importantly she's a mom and she has lived experience with what you're dealing with and that is our conversation today so

Mallory welcome. Thank you so much for having me I'm so excited to talk with you

today. Thank you so our listeners who let's say they're not on

Instagram maybe they're just getting into this whole mom,

you know, I call it the mom universe on social media

when we start learning, you know, who to follow,

who did not, and they're going, okay,

the formula mom,

tell me more about her.

So give us like who you are as a person, as a mom,

and kind of what led you to where you're at today.

Yes, absolutely. So I have two, I almost said little ones but they're not quite so little anymore. My

oldest is almost eight and my youngest is almost five. So I'm out of the real little baby face.

I had a really tough time postpartum after my first for a variety of reasons. She was early, I had a placenta complication. It took forever for my milk to come in. I had

undiagnosed gestational diabetes. The whole thing was a mess and it just was

nothing like how I expected. I expected her birth in postpartum to be what a lot of us expect which is that you're

flooded with love and it's the greatest thing ever and you feel like buoyed by all the

oxytocin no I did not I did not have that experience. It was very medical, it was very in some ways traumatic. It was difficult for me. It was difficult for her this path I thought I would be on. What does this path look like? And so I started looking for

resources about, you know, premature babies and she was 36 weeks, so she was, you know, late pre pre-term and our feeding journey was a

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