Navigating Weaning: How to Stop Breastfeeding Without Stress or Anxiety

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

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4.5 • 948 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Some of the best breastfeeding resources lack great information on weaning. What you find instead is information on why you should keep breastfeeding and anxiety-inducing articles on all of the things that can go wrong when you stop nursing. Breastfeeding is important, and thankfully, there are many resources for this, but it can be stressful when you are ready to wean and have limited evidence of how to do it. This episode aims to take the anxiety out of weaning. Get actionable tips on stopping breastfeeding and transitioning from being a breastfeeding mother to your next parenting adventure.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Mert.
0:07.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast.
0:15.0	This episode we are talking about weaning or quitting stopping breastfeeding.
0:20.0	The definition of weaning is technically to introduce your baby to food other than mother's milk.
0:27.0	In the context of this episode, we're talking about weaning as in stopping breastfeeding.
0:31.0	This is something I have personally done twice now. Both
0:35.0	times I had a huge amount of anxiety about it. I was really stressed out about
0:40.3	quitting breastfeeding. I thought my baby was going to freak out. I want to take the anxiety
0:45.4	out of this for you and that's the main goal of this episode. Plus I want to share something
0:51.1	with you that I did with both of my babies that I think made quitting breastfeeding a lot easier.
0:56.7	This is kind of my little secret. It probably will make you laugh because it's kind of weird,
1:01.8	but I do think it helped a ton so I'll share that at the end of the
1:05.5	episode. You can find the full article and all of the resources that accompany this episode at
1:11.8	pregnancy podcast.com slash weaning.
1:16.3	This episode was created because there was a lack of evidence-based information on this
1:20.5	topic which is true for so many things discussed on the podcast.
1:25.3	Right now you're listening to the public feed, so you have access to the last year of
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1:46.6	podcast.com slash premium. Thank you to Zeller for their support. The Zeller Prenatal Plus DHA goes above and beyond to use high quality bioavailable ingredients.
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