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Woman's Hour

Parenting Podcast: Feeding your baby

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Woman’s Hour has joined forces with BBC Radio Sheffield for a special series of programmes looking at how women are feeding their babies and how it makes them feel. Today Jane talks to their Weekend Breakfast presenter Kat Cowan who’s recently returned to work after maternity leave, following the birth of her son Cooper. Plus hearing from other mums around the country about what they went through whether they breast, bottle or mixed fed their babies.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

0:04.6

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

0:08.4

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable

0:14.3

experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

0:20.4

makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

0:24.6

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

0:29.7

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.

0:36.0

BBC Sounds.

0:38.0

BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.

0:41.0

Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to the Womons Hour Podcast for Parents.

0:46.2

This week we joined forces with BBC Radio Sheffield for a series of programs on how women are feeding their babies and how it makes them feel.

0:56.1

There's a video of six of the mothers we spoke to on the woman's our website feeding

1:00.4

your baby six new mothers on the plan versus the reality and

1:05.1

BBC Radio Sheffield weekend breakfast presenter Kat Cowan gave birth to her son

1:10.8

Cooper in March 2018. She told Jane why her experience had made her want to find

1:17.0

out more.

1:18.0

I was very, very lucky with the birth, had him at home, which I'd plan to do very quickly.

1:24.8

It was glorious.

1:25.8

It's what you, all you could hope for from the birth, and he was put on my chest, and

1:31.6

he immediately latched on and that is what I've been planning to do.

1:35.7

I've been planning to breastfeed. I'd gone to the anti-natal classes with the specific

1:40.0

breastfeeding session. I bought nursing bras and nipple cream and that kind of thing.

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