I just think we do a huge disservice to parents when we providers or friends just sort of say well they'll just teach you in the hospital like you'll get help there.

Because so many months come back to me and maybe there wasn't a lactation consultant over the weekend or in the evening hours or maybe the nurse that was assigned to them really wasn't super educated on breastfeeding.

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Thank you so much for joining me today, Kelly. Thank you so much for having me. I am so excited to be here.

Well, I'm so excited too. I'm also, so I'm a pediatrician obviously. I am an IBCLC for the last two years and I do around in hospitals.

I see newborn babies. I love being an IBCLC but we're talking about very openly the things that are not taught in the hospital and why we think it's important that people who plan on breastfeeding know about these things.

So before we get started, tell us more about yourself and why you love doing what you do.

So like many IBCLCs, what really drew me to this work were my own struggles with breastfeeding my two kids.

I always knew I wanted to breastfeed and I was one of these people that thought that kind of desire was enough.

You know, I googled a few things and just thought that I would be taught in the hospital and really was completely blindsided by just how like,

hard breastfeeding and newborn can be and how emotional it can be and really that what fuels my passion for supporting families for the whole, you know, range of experiences that can be feeding their babies and that's what I love to do.

I love it and I also have that similar story that I didn't breastfeed my first. I had a very traumatic delivery and a lot of my experiences was, again, being in a hospital.

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