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I'm Diane, your lactation consultant.

And I'm Abby, the badass breastfeater.

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review of the week. Yes. And our review of the week

came from Gmail. And it is from Shelby Lee. She said, I just had my first baby Riley Elizabeth nine

weeks ago. My mom breathfed me and my siblings. And I knew I wanted to do the same. But I live nine hours away and everything

has changed in the last 25 years. Also, my mother was 120 pounds soaking wet and I'm 260.

I had the hardest time at the hospital with finding a lactation consultant that encouraged me

to feed my child even with my large boobs. I had triple D's before baby, and now once I'm in gorge, they are huge.

Everyone encouraged me to just switch to bottle feeding because I just didn't have the right body for

breastfeeding. Everyone went to the cradle hole, and I couldn't see my baby to make sure that,

A, she was latched right, and B, she wasn't suffocating. Can we talk about techniques for plus-sized women who

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