The Unintended Harms Of "Breast Is Best", with Dr. Christie del Castillo-Hegyi & Lynnette Hafken
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
EP404. In this episode, Dr. Christie & Lynnette share their personal and professional experiences with feeding babies. They tell us a little bit about the history of breastfeeding and the evolutionary rationale for supplementation, they break down breastfeeding myths like "colostrum only in the first days of a newborns life is adequate", and they explain why parents are not currently being fully informed when it comes to exclusive breastfeeding. Dr. Christie del Castillo-Hegyi is a board-certified emergency physician and studies newborn brain injury and developmental disabilities caused by insufficient feeding and Lynnette Hafken is a hospital and private practice lactation consultant, former La Leche League Leader, and advocate for family-centered lactation and infant feeding support. Dr. Christie & Lynnette are co-authors of the new book, Fed Is Best: The Unintended Harms of the “Breast Is Best” Message and How to Find the Right Approach for You and Your Baby.
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| 0:49.6 | Welcome to Tuesday's episode. I just did something a little bit crazy. Spur the moment, I decided to sign up for an online fitness program because I need to start doing something. I am considering signing up. So I already have my yoga membership, which is great. I love doing a hot yoga class. And I was considering signing up |
| 1:12.5 | for CrossFit. There's a really nice CrossFit gym in Guelph. And I've been speaking with some people |
| 1:19.0 | that work there. And they were even saying that there's a spot, there's a couple spots in the gym |
| 1:23.7 | where you can bring your child and they can either play or watch you do your workouts. |
| 1:30.9 | And I was like, that is so good because I really want to get to a workout class where my husband |
| 1:37.2 | and I can both go at the same time. So it can be something that we can do together. And it would be |
| 1:43.0 | lovely if we could bring Milo. I think Milo would love to watch |
| 1:47.1 | a CrossFit class, I imagine. Anyways, they also do some kids things, which would be super fun for him. |
| 1:53.7 | But anyways, I was like, I want something to do during the day, just quick classes. So I listen to the toast and Claudia does these classes called Soto method. |
| 2:05.1 | So I checked out her website and I was just spur of the moment, just like signed up. So I'm going to |
| 2:10.4 | start it today. There's this one little section that's like if you're new to Soto method, |
| 2:15.4 | do these three days in a row. So I'm going to start that and I'm |
| 2:19.5 | going to film it and I'm going to make it a whole thing because if I don't start working out, |
| 2:24.2 | my body is going to disintegrate. Every day I wake up with a sore back. I think it has a lot to |
| 2:29.0 | do with how I sleep, but it's also probably a weak core or weak glutes for sure it's weak glutes like my butt |
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